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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/yellow-water-dirty-air-power-outages-venezuela-hits-a-new-low

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The tap in her apartment yields water only every two weeks. It comes out yellow. Her 8-month-old granddaughter is ill. And as Yajaira Espinoza, a 55-year-old hairdresser, made her way down the halls of Caracas university hospital on Friday, Zika cases evident in the rooms around her, a dense ash-filled smog enveloped the city.

"I am so sorry for my daughter, because I know she suffers silently," she said. "This situation is hard."

It has been an exceptionally painful year for Venezuelans, suffering from violent crime, chronic shortages, plummeting oil prices on which they depend, declining health and fractured government. Yet this past week it seemed to reach a new low. A kind of resigned misery spread across a city that had once been the envy of Latin America.


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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2016, 04:43:47 pm »
This would be Bernie's America.  Trump's too.
Roy Moore's "spiritual warfare" is driving past a junior high without stopping.

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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2016, 04:51:41 pm »
This would be Bernie's America.  Trump's too.
Good grief......can you go at least one hour without bringing up Trump in a thread sink?  :smokin:


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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2016, 04:53:30 pm »
I will add I posted in World news trying to get away from politics......that lasted 11 minutes.   :laugh:


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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2016, 05:02:00 pm »
I wonder how long it will take them to dig their way out of the socialist nightmare. 
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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2016, 05:10:26 pm »
Good grief......can you go at least one hour without bringing up Trump in a thread sink?  :smokin:

Trump's all for a trade war.  No better way to damage the economy than screwing with  companies' supply chains.
Roy Moore's "spiritual warfare" is driving past a junior high without stopping.

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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2016, 05:37:49 pm »
Chavismo... Trumpismo... it's all the same

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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2016, 05:38:57 pm »
I wonder how long it will take them to dig their way out of the socialist nightmare.

They won't. They might make adjustments here and there but the people there will never change much. Even much of the opposition are pretty socialist.

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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2016, 05:51:49 pm »
Look what W Bush did to these people! I can't believe what a cold hearted, cruel man he is to make them suffer like this. Damn him!
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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2016, 12:58:52 am »
Down Caracas way, those "who produce" have gone on strike or been driven out of business.

What's going on in Venezuela brings to mind what would happen in the next chapters, if Ayn Rand had kept writing Atlas Shrugged...

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Re: Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2016, 03:20:15 am »
I'm half-afraid that Venezuela will not get to freedom other than through a bloody coup/civil war.