{"id":67193,"date":"2016-07-31T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67193"},"modified":"2016-07-31T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T14:10:38","slug":"venezuelas-forced-labor-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67193","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s forced labor plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuela was once the shining jewel of South American economies. They had myriad natural resources, including oil and agriculture that kept the population content. Enter the Bolivarians – Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro – who seized many of the successful industries for the government, and like governments everywhere, they mismanaged once-successful businesses so that even commodities like toilet paper are a luxury in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the border between Venezuela and Colombia opened for the first time in years, and Venezuelans streamed into Colombia<\/a> on a shopping spree of gigantic proportions;<\/p>\n

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The shopping tsunami occurred as shortages reach critical levels in socialist-run Venezuela, where people regularly make huge lines outside supermarkets in hopes of getting rice, toilet paper, or whatever else has arrived in the store that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has imposed a barbaric situation on us,\u201d said a Venezuelan woman who walked across the border into Colombia to shop on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the Venezuelan government has a solution for their shortages on the shelves – they’re going to force citizens into 60-day periods of agricultural labor, according to CNBC<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a “transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is “necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency,” and states that workers can be forcefully moved from their jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the Financial Times<\/a>, the Venezuelan military has been put in charge of the economy;<\/p>\n

Many were unnerved when Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, Venezuela\u2019s unpopular president, this month handed the military extraordinary powers to tackle ravaging shortages in a country where food and basic medicines are increasingly hard to find and the inflation rate is forecast to top 700 per cent.<\/p>\n

As well as taking charge of food production and distribution, Venezuela\u2019s ports have come under army control, and several government ministries now report directly to the defence minister and to Mr Maduro.<\/p>\n

Giovanna de Michele, a defence expert at the Central University of Venezuela, says that, bolstered by these new powers, Gen Padrino L\u00f3pez is now \u201cthe most powerful man in Venezuela\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an area of the world where military coups used to happen regularly, Maduro handed power to his military in order to placate the generals and secure Maduro’s job. <\/p>\n

But, yeah, everyone who is surprised, raise your hands. I think I see Jimmy Carter’s hand up there in the back of the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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