Socialism: Venezuelans Scavenging, Selling Garbage for Survival
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/01/19/socialism-venezuelans-turn-to-selling-garbage-for-survival/
Venezuelans are increasingly buying and selling items of garbage as a means of survival as the country's economic and humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.
A report this week published on the personal website of veteran journalist Glenda Umana details the cases of people such as Yelitza Lujan, a woman living on Venezuela's Margarita Island, previously known as the "Pearl of the Carribean." A mother of five children and two grandchildren, she has been forced to sell bags of garbage.
The bags - which contain food such as rotten bananas, blackened carrots, and potatoes - can be sold for up to 18,000 bolivares, equivalent to under ten cents as a result of hyperinflation.
"Most of the time we lose money because everything that comes in the bag is bad," Lujan said.
One of her neighbors, Yonely MartÃnez, lives in a makeshift house kept together by sheets of zinc and pieces of wood. A former Chavez supporter who voted for Nicolas Maduro, she tells Lujan that she feels betrayed after being promised that the government would help lift her out of poverty. ...
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