With Venezuela in Collapse, Towns Slip Into Primitive Isolation
June 10th, 2019With socialism like this, who needs EMP weapons?
Via: Reuters:
At the once-busy beach resort of Patanemo, tourism has evaporated over the last two years as Venezuela’s economic crisis has deepened and deteriorating cellphone service left visitors too afraid of robbery to brave the isolated roads.
Gone are the vendors who once walked the sands of the crescent-shaped beach hawking bathing suits and empanadas – a traditional savory pastry.
These days, its Caribbean shoreline flanked by forested hills receives a different type of visitor: people who walk 10 minutes from a nearby town carrying rice, plantains or bananas in hopes of exchanging them for the fishermen’s latest catch.
With bank notes made useless by hyperinflation, and no easy access to the debit card terminals widely used to conduct transactions in urban areas, residents of Patanemo rely mainly on barter.
It is just one of a growing number of rural towns slipping into isolation as Venezuela’s economy implodes amid a long-running political crisis.
From the peaks of the Andes to Venezuela’s sweltering southern savannahs, the collapse of basic services including power, telephone and internet has left many towns struggling to survive.
Many terrible hardships in Venezuela for sure—including having some of the dregs of their society coming into power locally through violence. On the other hand, the use of common mediums of exchange like coffee and the tremendous increase in bartering is something first world community organizers around the World have been trying to promote for decades.
I wonder how much differently a relatively socialist country like Norway would look, with their “largest in the World” sovereign wealth fund, if the transnational PTB sanctioned them for 15 years, confiscated their wealth fund, and targeted their leaders for death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
“The state of Norway has ownership stakes in many of the country’s largest publicly listed companies, owning 37% of the Oslo stockmarket[38] and operating the country’s largest non-listed companies including Equinor and Statkraft.”
Probably look like a really cold 2019 Venezuela.