Venezuela to reassign private, public workers to agriculture

[Zorro]

Venezuela said private and public companies will be obliged to let their workers be reassigned to grow crops, in a dramatic move in the middle of the country's crippling economic crisis.

The Labor Ministry announced the measure as part of the economic emergency already in effect; it will require all employers in Venezuela to let the state have their workers "to strengthen production" of food.

President Nicolas Maduro's government is fighting for its life amid staggering inflation and shortages of everything from food to toilet paper, diapers and shampoo.

Maduro, like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, has increasingly moved the country towards taking over parts of the economy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-reassign-private-public-workers-agriculture-014558981.html

Sounds like Maduro's version of Mao's Cultural Revolution is in motion.

[COLGATE4]

1. It's getting even beyond Alice in Wonderland now.

[DetlefK]

2. Like Communism in Eastern Europe.

You were expected to work in the fields X days a year for the glory of the country or whatever. It was sold to school-children as a school-project.



I always have the feeling that Venezuela will end up like Romania:
- An out-of-touch ruler who doesn't realize how bad things are.
- Massive anti-government protests.
- The ruler gives a major speech that has nothing to do with what the people really want.
- Violent uprising, 1 week of war in the streets.
- A new, weak, corrupt, capitalistic, democratically elected government, but at least things aren't as bad as under socialism.

[Marksman_91]

3. Let's not forget said leader and his wife facing a firing squad after the conflict n/t

[DetlefK]

4. Actually, that was not part of the original plan.

The revolutionaries had planned to hold a show-trial for Ceausescu. But then rumors spread that some secret-agents (the "Securitate", a bunch of murderers and torturers) loyal to him were on the loose and would try to free him, so they hush-hushed him into a back-alley and had him executed on the spot.

[Bacchus4.0]

5. Scary nt