Bandits butcher vet school's horses for meat in Venezuela

[GatoGordo]

Bandits butcher vet school's horses for meat in Venezuela

MARACAY, Venezuela -- Rafael Toro, a student at Venezuela's top veterinary school, suspected something was amiss when a beloved horse called Miss Congeniality didn't greet him at the fence one recent morning along with others in the campus' small herd.

The bright-eyed, bay-colored mare had earned her nickname for helping disabled students overcome their fear of riding horses. They say she was smart and even trotted up when you called her name.


In this Oct 26, 2018 photo, Rafael Toro, a student at Venezuela's top veterinary school displays the hooves and the skull of a horse called Miss Congeniality on the ground, at the Central University of Venezuela in Maracay, in Venezuela. AP

To his shock, Toro discovered the horse's skin and dismembered bones hidden among trees in the corner pasture of the sprawling campus in the central Venezuelan city of Maracay. Thieves overnight had hopped the fence, slaughtered the horse and made off with her meat - either to sell or to feed their hungry families.

"I burst into tears," said Toro, who delivered the grim news to other students. "We came here, and together we all cried."

The slaughter isn't an isolated incident. Across Venezuela, as the once-wealthy oil nation's economy collapses and sky-high inflation leaves residents struggling to afford scarce food, crimes of hunger and desperation are soaring.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-bandits-kill-horses-for-meat-veterinary-school-maracay-economic-crisis/

Bolivarian Socialism for the win again!

[flotsam]

1. They butchered the horse

in a field at night and left the skull and hoofs that clean? I smell propaganda...

[flotsam]

3. A set of ribs from an animal killed the night before

don't look like that either. If I was going to document a fresh kill I would photograph the bloody hide or the pile of internal organs. A presumtious jackass, then?

[GatoGordo]

4. Clearly a photograph of "the fresh kill" is what you need for proof of such depravity?

Or would you consider that more propaganda?

[flotsam]

5. I don't "need" anything...

A horse is an animal that must be cared for every day and no animal goes from live to museum quality skeletal parts in under 24 hours by any natural process short of piranhas or army ants. I've got no dog in your political crusade but when something strikes me as BS I will say so and you can stick your insinuations.

[GatoGordo]

6. Propaganda

Because starving Venezuelans wouldn't be so cruel as to kill a horse in order to eat. Only willing to stone a terrified cow to death.

I'll stick your smarm up with my insinuations?