Getting Water at the River of Hell
Luzmery* puts a casserole over her head before talking. She says it’s “to protect my identity because colectivos might come after me later.” She’s had no water since Thursday, March 7th, when the blackout, ongoing in some states, started. She stands in line with an empty bucket, to collect water from “a spring” at the Guaire’s banks.
The inhabitants of San Agustin and Puente Hierro, right in downtown Caracas, had been at it since early in the morning. “We can’t cook, we can’t bathe, we just can’t,” says Heberto*, another local who has been kind of overseeing the operation. Hundreds have come down from one of the poorest communities in the capital, chasing the vital liquid. When they saw the pipes were flowing, word spread fast. A queue appeared in less than half an hour.
There are two pipes in the area. The one at the north bank brings barely a trickle of Ávila water. There, Luzmery waits with her bottles. She has three kids and needs to cook. She’s quite clear about who’s responsible. “This is President Maduro’s fault, what we’re suffering. Water, water! And hunger,” she yells to the camera, before turning to check if the bucket’s full.
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/03/12/getting-water-at-the-river-of-hell/
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Just another day in the People's Socialist Paradise of Venezuela
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......they go to any lengths to keep up the scam.
.....the tat and earring are a really nice touch.
Naked CIA women giving birth (staged) on filthy hospital floors or in ER waiting rooms?
Babies (CIA mannequins) starved to death with their weeping CIA families?
Greg Palast needs to up HIS game if he thinks these sort of pictures are going to cause him trouble!
Ruperta in better days. Yep, believe it, better days.
Butchered flamingos in the Lagoon of the Peonies.
Media supportive of the socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, denied the authenticity of the scene of slaughter discovered by Coy, calling it propaganda by the U.S. “corporate mainstream media.”
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/venezuelas-hungry-hunt-wildlife-zoo-animals-as-economic-crisis-grows/
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I have to ask. What else would a government willing to let this shit happen be capable of doing? It's not like no one knew. These stories made international news and yet nothing was done.