{"id":27408,"date":"2016-08-01T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27408"},"modified":"2016-08-01T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:37:08","slug":"venezuela-re-institutes-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27408","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Re-institutes Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 2, 1816, Simon Bolivar landed in Venezuela and declared all slaves in Spanish America free. In 2016, the “Bolivarian Revolution” in Venezuela reinstitued slave labor<\/a> on farms:<\/p>\n

Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a “transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is “necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency,” and states that workers can be forcefully moved from their jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Hat tip: Instaundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I’m sure if you went into Houston’s Fifth Ward or Atlanta’s south side and announced “Hey, due to a food emergency, we’re going to need to put you back on the plantations. But it’s only for 60 days!” I’m sure they’d be totally<\/i> understanding…<\/p>\n

This follows months of food riots<\/a>. Animals are starving to death in Venezuela’s zoos<\/a> because they can’t afford to feed them. “Danta from the Caricuao zoo died from hunger.” There you go, liberals: An animal with a name! Now we just wait for all that spontaneous outrage…<\/p>\n

\"Danta<\/p>\n

So what is country whose people are literally starving due to the Magic Power of Socialism\u2122 to do? Why, institute censorship<\/a>, of course! And why reform your failing socialist econmy when you can threaten to arrest international executives<\/a> because their local factories can’t produce goods due to a lack of raw materials?<\/p>\n

Leftist leaders around the world love proclaiming “Socialism or Death!” But as Venezuela proves yet again, socialism is<\/i> death…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 2, 1816, Simon Bolivar landed in Venezuela and declared all slaves in Spanish America free. In 2016, the “Bolivarian Revolution” in Venezuela reinstitued slave labor on farms: Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a “transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch the agricultural and food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,16],"tags":[331,2870,1596,899,223,2122,3404],"class_list":["post-27408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-economics","tag-censorship","tag-foreign-policy","tag-hyperinflation","tag-slavery","tag-socialism","tag-venezuela","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27408"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28135,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27408\/revisions\/28135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}