Venezuelan Governor Suggests Eating “Fried Rocks” amid Shortages

[Bacchus4.0]

http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2015/10/02/venezuelan-governor-suggests-eating-fried-rocks-amid-shortages/

The governor of the Venezuelan state of Bolívar has some advice for dealing with the widespread shortage of food across the country. Can’t find eggs at your local Venezuelan grocery store? Why not try fried rocks instead?+

Governor Francisco Rangel said during his radio show on Tuesday, September 29, that the Venezuelan people should not “yield to temptation” or worry about not being able to find a pack of flour or sardines to buy amid the shortages.+

“Let them take away whatever they want. We are capable of eating a stick, or instead of frying two eggs, fry two rocks, and we will eat fried rocks, ” he said, “but no one can beat us.”+

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According to Andrés Bello Catholic University, the cost of basic food needs for an average family in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar, increased by 18.79 percent in August. The university estimates that a family must now earn 44,963 Bs. (US$54.63) per month to satisfy their food requirements, roughly six times the monthly minimum wage.+

[Marksman_91]

1. Wonder if this jackass or anyone in his family actually do lines for food

It's most likely they pay the housemaid or bodyguard to do so.

[DetlefK]

2. This talk is very dangerous. Two examples:

1. The syrian civil-war resulted from a failed agrarian policy of Assad. The people got afraid that there would be food-shortages and demanded political change. Assad said No. That was the drop that made the barrel spill over.

2. Romania during the Cold War. Romania is rich in ressources, from agriculture to timber to ores to crude oil, but the communist regime ruined it. There were serious food-shortages and the queues in front of shops are legendary.
In the end, the spark that ignited the revolution was tiny: A pastor who had criticized the regime was to be relocated to a different parish. When he refused, his eviction was announced. He called on his parishioners to come to his house and become witnesses to his eviction. This tiny demonstration grew over the course of 4 days to a nation-wide rejection of the Ceausescu-regime, aided by the regimes own tone-deaf reactions (including the notoriously brutal and sadistic intelligence-service) to the initial demonstrations. On the 5th day there was a huge demonstration against the regime, which turned into open warfare in the streets. On the 7th day, the dictator was arrested. On the 9th day he was put on show-trial and sentenced to death: It was too dangerous to let him live. The fighting raged on for a few more days before the regime eventually collapsed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution





One does not joke about food-shortages if the country is in crisis.

[Zorro]

5. Power distribution failures might be the tipping point

The Venezuelan government has long neglected grid infrastructure maintenance, always claiming "sabotage" as the reason for reported and repeated outages.

Food shortages + no electricity is a recipe for massive and widespread anti-government demonstrations.

[DetlefK]

6. Do you remember the tiny event that triggered the Arabic Spring?

A salesman self-immolated in Morocco in protest against the regime.

That's all it took.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Capitalist anti-socialist propaganda writers have no sense of allegory, and shun context.

[Marksman_91]

4. Are you denying that the Chavista said what the article claims? Because there's video of it

Or do you not like those pesky facts not agreeing with your warped sense of reality?

[forest444]

7. I think our right-wing friends have an irony deficiency.

[Marksman_91]

8. Who here is a right-winger, exactly? Just out of curiosity. N/t

[FrodosPet]

9. Anybody who does not support Maduro is a right winger

Regardless of whether you've been voting Democrat all your life, with the vast majority of your opinions traditionally identified as liberal, if you have any lack of faith in Maduro and the Castro brothers, you are a fascist red baiting John Bircher.

[Judi Lynn]

10. That's one of them, isn't it? Congenital. n/t

[Marksman_91]

11. Ok. What, in your opinion, makes me a right-winger?

Cuz if you don't explain, especially without any evidence to back your claims up, I'm just gonna assume you're just talking out of your ass and falsely accusing people of being something they're not just because you don't agree with them about the Chavista regime.

*waits for this post to be flagged cuz, you know, Judy gets to falsely accuse anyone without consequence while anyone she disagrees with should be censored*