Circus Without Bread

Venezuela, awash in the inevitable end results of socialism – Shortages, hyper inflation, out of control corruption in crime – is doing put failed leftist governments from Baltimore to Minneapolis to Caracas always do; playing at security theater. In this case, destroying guns:

Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.

Venezuela has the world’s second highest murder rate and the street gangs that plague its poor neighborhoods have become increasingly heavily armed in recent years, at a time when a deep recession has reduced resources available to police.

“Reduced resources…”. “Recession”.
I don’t know Who Venezuela is trying to suck up to you, but it’s kind of funny…

Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.

Clearly, they’ve got that part solved…

3 thoughts on “Circus Without Bread

  1. Considering they’re killing zoo animals for food (horses in this case), and that the zoo animals are starving, it’s no surprise.

    But you got to be at least darkly amused by some of the tales of the-government-style-that-must-not-be-named and its similarity to our clueless local leftists. It seems that going out of business there is considered an economic crime against the country. Now normally that’s not an issue, but they’re now arresting folks who upon losing their jobs when the company shuts down on the charge of “economic sabotage.” Ah, the wonder of a mind that believes that government is anything other than self-serving and brutish!

  2. Got this from Insty:
    https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/2719

    “Joseph Stiglitz, in Caracas, Praises Venezuela’s Economic Policies”
    The story is from 2007.
    Stiglitz is a liberal’s go-to economist when they need to cite an ‘expert’ on the economic viability of socialism. He is virtually always wrong, but his purpose is not to make correct evaluations of economic policy, his purpose is to be a credentialed academic who endorses socialism.

  3. One would figure that when a nation built in great part on one of the world’s greatest pulpwood forests can’t supply toilet paper, people would clue in, but apparently not. Like Ronaldus Maximus noted, if you brought socialism to the Sahara, you’d soon have a shortage of sand.

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