RE: Venezuala : Where's the scarcity?
What a load of shit, I'm shocked RT is stopping so low. We all know Russia's angle on this. They openly back Maduro, so they want the world to believe things aren't too bad for Venezuelans. They've moved their military and airforce into the region, to fight the USA which is also militarizing Venezuela right now for an invasion - on humanitarian grounds.
So RT is now trying to claim there's no humanitarian need for invasion, with this propaganda.
Notice how the 'reporter' claims he went to the poor parts of the city and met the mayor handing out free food to anyone who needs it? But he didn't manage to get any footage of it? He can juggle, but he can't remember to turn the camera on when it matters.
There is no scarcity? He goes to one supermarket, finds food (at prices most can't pay), and claims there's no scarcity in the country... and no need for humanitarian aid?
I'm friends with dozens of people who know the situation FAR better than this vlogging clown who has zero understanding of the history, politics, or economic factors he's bumbling about. They show me the empty shelves, the lines, the inflation, the lack of medicine, the family members dying from basic illnesses, the millions fleeing on foot in any direction they can, just to find food and water. They aren't making this up! And it has been worsening for years.
As you know, I'm saving up 1300 USD to buy a water pump for a wall in a neighborhood on the Venezuelan Isla de Marguerita. There is no food, no electricity, no sewage, no hospitable, no supermarket, and NO WATER. I've been involved with these people closely for almost a year, and I know many of them personally.
This RT piece is blatant propaganda and disinfo and needs to be called out as such (or not shared at all)!
"This was brought on by the capitalists." What a blatant and shameful political piece - not reporting at all.
RT had him on because his views suit their agenda. They're just as bad as CNN and the other American state media.
People are dying by the thousands from starvation in Venezuela, right now. Tens of thousands more are on the brink, or have left their homes with a backback to try to find a new life. Efforts like this to prevent humanitarian aid will result in additional suffering and loss of life.
Roley poley fish heads indeed.
Unless you have bought into the Syrian White Helmet narrative, @drutter, you may be interested to know that it was Max Blumenthal (the journalist in this piece) who broke the truth about them while the neo-lib hollywood crowd were giving them Oscars for their propagandist documentary.
Anything that John Bolton and Elliot Abrams are supporting it's best to run the other way for the truth, in my opinion.
What do you base your opinions on? The Venezualians who mysteriously can afford internet access? The same ones, no doubt, shopping in the grocery store featured in the clip?
P.S.
Yeah that has worked out well in Syria, Libia and Iraq. LOL!!!!
Wait, are you saying the tens of thousands of Venezuelan Steem accounts made in the past 6-8 months aren't legit?
Never heard of white helmets, Max Blumenthal, John Bolton, or Elliot Abrams. Not sure why you are bringing them up.
The issue is that Russia Today is passing off fake news by this vlogging dingdong as real, attempting to claim there's no need for humanitarian aid in the country.
And you buy it?
Source
An essay on the crisis in Venezuela by Alfred de Zayas. an internarional law expert, who served as a secretary on the UN Human Rights Council:
https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/essay-on-venezuela/
You toss out that outdated partisan blog post like it has any bearing on our conversation. :/
As if the secretary of the UN's Human Rights Council, who had been tasked to do an on the ground 8 day fact finding tour on the Venezuela Crisis before submitting a report to the Council, has no bearing on this conversation. 👍😆
I guess it must have went over your head in the video where it said those who oppose the opposition are cashing in from the crisis by charging max prices on products coming in. Everyone is pretty much aware, and as the video states, there are relatively well off area's where people aren't starving. The people being provided for are the one's who support the current government the other fifty percent of the people are the one's suffering. This conflict though is internal and it should be left up to the people to figure it out.