{"id":77947,"date":"2018-02-26T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77947"},"modified":"2018-02-26T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:37:38","slug":"fleeing-communism-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77947","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing Communism…again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> grudgingly reports that Venezuelans are fleeing the latest version of Communism to Colombia. An eight-mile-long line forms at the border crossing; <\/p>\n

“It’s migrate and give it a try or die of hunger there. Those are the only two options,” said Yeraldine Murillo, 27, who left her six-year-old son behind in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo, some 56 miles (90 km) across the border.<\/p>\n

“There, people eat from the trash. Here, people are happy just to eat,” said Murillo, who hopes to find work in Colombia’s capital Bogota and send for her son.<\/p>\n

The exodus from Venezuela – on a scale echoing the departure of Myanmar’s Rohingya people to Bangladesh – is stirring alarm in Colombia. A weary migration official said as many as 2,000 Venezuelans enter Colombia legally through Paraguachon each day, up from around 1,200 late last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Colombian government officials estimate 4000 immigrants cross the 1300-mile jungle frontier illegally everyday.<\/p>\n

Luckily, for the Castros, there was 90 miles of ocean that blocked migration from that island. But that didn’t stop 14,000 from making their way to the US in the first two years of Communism in Cuba. The Germans built an 866-mile-long wall from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia to stem the migration to the West. The North Koreans have their minefields. <\/p>\n

Mechanic Luis Arellano and his children were among the lucky ones who found beds at a shelter in Maicao run by the Catholic diocese with help from the U.N. refugee agency. The 58-year-old said his children’s tears of hunger drove him to flee Venezuela.<\/p>\n

“It was 8 p.m. and they were asking for lunch and dinner and I had nothing to give them,” he said, spooning rice into his 7-year-old daughter’s mouth.<\/p>\n

“This isn’t the size they should be,” Arellano said, raising his children’s spindly arms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Food has been weaponized by the Communists since Stalin used it against the Kulaks in the Soviet Union and Mao used it in his Great Leap Forward and now Maduro in his Bolivarian Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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