Venezuela Violence Spreads Like Wildfire! Riot Police Can't handle the Madness!

in venezuela •  7 years ago 

Caracas is in complete bedlam right now. Imagine a city so dangerous, you have nowhere to turn. Food is too expensive, everything is in shortage. This will not end well. Check out this article. I will try to include this in a video:

CARACAS, Venezuela—When Ana, a five-year veteran of the national police, finishes her night shift patrolling this city’s dangerous slums, she often arrives home only to pick up her riot gear and head out again to confront rollicking protests against Venezuela’s embattled government.

On those front lines, she and her colleagues use tear gas and rubber bullets against increasingly desperate protesters armed with stones, Molotov cocktails and even bags of feces. The showdowns take place in scorching heat, and she says the authorities provide her with no food, water or overtime pay.

Ana, who along with others cited in this article asked that her last name not be used for fear of official retribution, is one of about 100,000 Venezuelan security officers, mostly in their 20s, shielding the government of increasingly unpopular President Nicolás Maduro from escalating unrest.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/riot-police-on-venezuelas-front-lines-seek-a-way-out-1495013403

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Civil war or more? Something even bigger gong to hit venezuelas. I bet steemit is great for people there. To share news and earn some actually money.

With all the news of children starving to death and people eating zoo animals to survive, my heart is breaking. Why can't the elites just leave us alone?

omg, are they eating zoo animals?

@stellabelle So sorry, I read this a few months ago but did not continue to look into it. But I think I was wrong the citizens are actually eating the dog, cats and pigeons on the street but the zoo animals I'm not sure about yet. It seems that over 50 animals have already starved to death due to rising food prices. Very sad, the article is in the link http://stevedalepetworld.com/animals-starving-venezuelan-zoo/

Thanks for posting and great to see you back on here David - hopefully this will replace the other platform :)