Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

Socialism in Venezuela has destroyed so much of the country’s economic wellbeing that even criminals are having a hard time making ends meet. Bullets and weapons have become too expensive for even the most violent out there, plus, there’s just nothing left to steal.

Bullets are expensive at $1 each for the distressed Venezuelan criminal. And with less cash circulating on the street, gang members say robberies just don’t pay like they used to. Imagine that.

According to the Associated Press, criminals are even having a hard time in the nation ripped apart by socialism. Not even breaking the law is helping anymore because most people have nothing left to steal.

“If you empty your clip, you’re shooting off $15,” said El Negrito a “feared street gangster” who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition that he is identified only by his street name and photographed wearing a hoodie and face mask to avoid attracting unwelcome attention. “You lose your pistol or the police take it and you’re throwing away $800.”

After the initial exponential rise in violent crime in the immediate aftermath of socialism’s failure, the crime rate is falling rapidly. Nothing pays anymore in Venezuela, including crime. “These days, nobody is doing well — not honest citizens who produce wealth or the criminals who prey on them,” said El Negrito.

Officials of President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist administration have drawn criticism for not releasing robust crime statistics, but the government on Tuesday gave the AP figures showing a 39 percent drop in homicides over the same three-year period, with 10,598 killings in 2018. The Associated Press
20 years of the socialist revolution launched by the late President Hugo Chávez, who expropriated once-thriving businesses that today produce a fraction of their potential under government management, have caused massive erosion in the way of life in Venezuela.

While assaults are down, other crimes have risen. Reports of theft and pilfering of everything from copper telephone wires to livestock are surging as people seek a way to provide food for themselves. Meanwhile, drug trafficking and illegal gold mining have become default activities for organized crime, or others just looking to survive. Even with the drop in assaults and murder, Venezuela remains a very violent country.

“Venezuela remains one of the most violent countries in the world,” said Dorothy Kronick, who teaches political science at the University of Pennsylvania and has carried out extensive research in Caracas’ slums. “It has wartime levels of violence — but no war.”

When someone looks out at the world and sees all manner of suffering and injustice, stretching back for thousands of years and continuing today, he invariably blames such problems on someone else’s hatred, greed, or stupidity. Rarely will someone consider the possibility that his own belief system is the cause of the pain and suffering he sees around him. But in most cases, it is. The root cause of most of society’s ills–the main source of man’s inhumanity to man–is neither malice nor negligence, but a mere superstition–an unquestioned assumption which has been accepted on faith by nearly everyone, of all ages, races, religions, education and income levels. –The Most Dangerous Superstition, book description

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/nothing-pays-venezuela-anymore-not-even-crime-theres-nothing-left-steal

What a country!!!!! There was a country.

Nigeria is coming to join them

this is unbelievable. crime no longer pay. this is a very serious situation.

It is not socialism that destroyed economic well being in Venezuela but US blockade and sanctions. Nothing is wrong with Socialism as a mode of production.

Sure bet .... Tnk me later

The airport in Caracas is vacant. No airlines fly there anymore. Used to be one of the busiest in S. America.
No arrivals and no departures LOL.
https://flightaware.com/live/airport/SVFM

Today, that scene has changed dramatically. Since 2014, when Venezuela descended into a political and economic crisis, 15 airlines have ceased operations to and from Caracas, leaving the city––and the country––in a deepening state of aviation isolation. Maiquetía’s terminal frequently goes without air conditioning, power, or running water; fears of crime in the city and in the airport itself have caused some remaining carriers to send flight crews to other cities rather than having them stay overnight in Caracas.

The fall of Maiquetía started when Air Canada canceled its route from Toronto in March 2014, followed by Alitalia’s withdrawal of its Rome-Caracas operation in April 2015. Eleven more carriers followed, including Delta, United, Lufthansa, Aeromexico, Aerolíneas Argentinas, GOL, Avianca, and LATAM, leaving the Venezuelan capital with no direct services to Dallas, Atlanta, New York, Houston, San Juan, Fort Lauderdale, Frankfurt, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Lima, Bogotá, São Paulo, and Santiago.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/06/venezuela-biggest-airport-is-in-free-fall/561875/

Ndboy85:
Sure bet .... Tnk me later

ur game cut na

dermmy:
It is not socialism that destroyed economic well being in Venezuela but US blockade and sanctions. Nothing is wrong with Socialism as a mode of production.

Socialism is a bad economic model a very very bad one

I stopped reading that s#itty article from the very first line.

I mean what idiot wrote this:


"Socialism in Venezuela has destroyed so much of the country’s economic wellbeing".

I can't believe this...

stanech:


Socialism is a bad economic model a very very bad one

There is nothing bad about socialism. Stop gobbling up what the Free market world is feeding you with.

We could actually say the same about their economic model.

Truth is, a lot of factors go a long way to make or mar and economic model. Besides, they all have their flaws. There is no perfect economic model anywhere. At least, there is no such thing.

dermmy:
It is not socialism that destroyed economic well being in Venezuela but US blockade and sanctions. Nothing is wrong with Socialism as a mode of production.

And the current set of guys at the helm of affairs haven't helped their country's plight too.

But you are very right. That article was written by a dimwit. Too simplistic for comfort.


Socialism in Venezuela has destroyed so much of the country’s economic wellbeing

Wackiest line ever written^