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Meanwhile in Venezuala: Child gangs use machetes to fight for quality garbage to eat
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:44 pm
As Liliana picks lice from the tangled, thick hair of her boyfriend, Patricio, while they sit together on the sidewalk of a Caracas street, she’s also multi-tasking, keeping a watchful eye on her “family.” When a 10-year-old girl named Danianyeliz kneels down to drink water from a puddle, Liliana reproaches her, urging her to have a sip from a juice bottle they’ve just found in a garbage bag.
At 16, Liliana has become the mother figure for a gang of Venezuelan children and young adults called the Chacao, named after the neighborhood they’ve claimed as their territory. The 15 members, ranging in age from 10 to 23, work together to survive vicious fights for “quality” garbage in crumbling, shortage-plagued Venezuela. Their weapons are knives and sticks and machetes. The prize? Garbage that contains food good enough to eat.
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At 16, Liliana has become the mother figure for a gang of Venezuelan children and young adults called the Chacao, named after the neighborhood they’ve claimed as their territory. The 15 members, ranging in age from 10 to 23, work together to survive vicious fights for “quality” garbage in crumbling, shortage-plagued Venezuela. Their weapons are knives and sticks and machetes. The prize? Garbage that contains food good enough to eat.
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Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:45 pm to weagle99
sterilization may be helpful here
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:50 pm to MontyFranklyn
And yet they keep reproducing? I'll never understand that. Same for other famine-ravaged countries and populations. Makes no sense.
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:50 pm to weagle99
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:52 pm to weagle99
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As Liliana picks lice from the tangled, thick hair of her boyfriend, Patricio, while they sit together on the sidewalk of a Caracas street, she’s also multi-tasking, keeping a watchful eye on her “family.” When a 10-year-old girl named Danianyeliz kneels down to drink water from a puddle, Liliana reproaches her, urging her to have a sip from a juice bottle they’ve just found in a garbage bag.
At 16, Liliana has become the mother figure for a gang of Venezuelan children and young adults called the Chacao, named after the neighborhood they’ve claimed as their territory. The 15 members, ranging in age from 10 to 23, work together to survive vicious fights for “quality” garbage in crumbling, shortage-plagued Venezuela. Their weapons are knives and sticks and machetes. The prize? Garbage that contains food good enough to eat.
Sounds like the first chapter of Ender's Shadow.
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:53 pm to SCLibertarian
How is world hunger still a thing with gmos food around?
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:55 pm to mailman
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How is world hunger still a thing with gmos food around?
Because Venezuela is a socialist shithole
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:56 pm to weagle99
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Child gangs use machetes to fight for quality garbage to eat
It’s the f**king socialist paradise they’ve been building for years! You lefties better hustle on down there before the glory days come to an end.
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:57 pm to weagle99
What did communists use to light their homes before candles?
electricity
electricity
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:57 pm to weagle99
Venezuela is what it looks like when your country is on socialism and communism.
Socialism and communism, not even once.
Socialism and communism, not even once.
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:57 pm to weagle99
Socialism is grand!
So sayeth the liberals.
So sayeth the liberals.
Posted on 3/27/18 at 8:57 pm to SCLibertarian
There are still millions of Americans who believe in that fraud.
Posted on 3/27/18 at 9:00 pm to LSUAlum2001
All the socialist in America think they will get it right the next time...
Posted on 3/27/18 at 9:00 pm to weagle99
real socialism has never been tried you guys
just hang in there Venezuela, utopia is just beyond the next famine
just hang in there Venezuela, utopia is just beyond the next famine
Posted on 3/27/18 at 9:13 pm to Pettifogger
We'll call it neo-liberalism to let Reddit socialists sound less ridiculous
This post was edited on 3/27/18 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 3/27/18 at 9:18 pm to MontyFranklyn
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sterilization may be helpful here
No, just a democracy and ensuing capitalism.
This post was edited on 3/27/18 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 3/27/18 at 9:42 pm to weagle99
Civil war feels like an inevitability in Venezuela at this point. It’s pretty sad.
Growing up in the Houston area I knew several kids whose parents were fired by Chavez from PDVSA or driven out with the nationalization of the oil industry. Aside from all the famine and poverty the main oilfield there is basically an environmental disaster because they can’t afford/don’t know how to perform basic maintenance.
Growing up in the Houston area I knew several kids whose parents were fired by Chavez from PDVSA or driven out with the nationalization of the oil industry. Aside from all the famine and poverty the main oilfield there is basically an environmental disaster because they can’t afford/don’t know how to perform basic maintenance.
Posted on 3/27/18 at 9:46 pm to Sentrius
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This post was edited on 3/24/19 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 3/28/18 at 9:49 am to EA6B
quote:Has that democracy helped the similar problems concerning the poor and homeless in all capitalistic countries?
No, just a democracy and ensuing capitalism.
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