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elleng

(130,905 posts) Wed Jun 22, 2016, 12:42 AM Jun 2016

Across Venezuela, cities are erupting in protests and looting over food shortages.

Nick Casey, The New York Times’s Andes bureau chief, provides a view from the ground.

https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/10150832859579999/

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Across Venezuela, cities are erupting in protests and looting over food shortages. (Original Post) elleng Jun 2016 OP

There used to be DUers who blamed the US for Venezuela's mess. Where are they? DetlefK Jun 2016 #1

DetlefK

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1. There used to be DUers who blamed the US for Venezuela's mess. Where are they?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Jun 22, 2016, 06:01 AM

Jun 2016

"US-conspiracy", "toppling the venezulean government like they tried in 2003" ...

Don't worry though. They will resurface when Venezuela's crisis has gone beyond the peak, just like the EU somehow secretly engineered Greece's bad economic decisions to take over Greece.

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