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Venezuela: Queues of Up to Five Days to Access Gasoline
Car owners in Táchira, Venezuela, had to wait up to five days to buy gasoline this week after Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime piloted a new scheme to keep foreigners from profiting off of subsidized prices.
Drivers reportedly had to wait between 72 to 96 hours in the searing heat outside service stations for the arrival of gasoline, a product in increasingly short supply amid the country’s dire economic crisis.
“We have waited three days in a row. They say that the gasoline lorry arrives in the night and we hope that is the case,” Jorge Bezones, one of the drivers waiting in the queue, told El Nacional. “On Wednesday they were going to rob us. In addition, there are gentlemen over 80 years old in line when they should be at home resting.”
El plan piloto implementado por el gobierno nacional es calificado de fracaso, porque se había iniciado el pasado 4 de septiembre en los estados fronterizos y aún, no han sido activados. El desarrollo de esta noticia la encuentras en #NoticiasEnVIVO por: https://t.co/4HeIE2lAK4 pic.twitter.com/UJIUQMqCBX
— TVVenezuela Noticias (@TVVnoticias) September 24, 2018
To help pass the time and feel more comfortable, many drivers took items from their homes such as pillows, hammocks, board games, and food dishes into their cars.
After five days of waiting, the scene eventually turned to chaos as drivers began to protest by blocking the streets and covering them with debris. Despite the efforts of police to calm the situation, Maduro eventually suspended the new policy.
Los habitantes del estado Táchira, en la frontera con Colombia, viven un calvario para aprovisionarse de gasolina, debiendo realizar filas de hasta tres días en vísperas de que empiece a regir un nuevo sistema de pago https://t.co/QNUtVypEsW pic.twitter.com/vnY7i2dFZA
— NTN24 Venezuela (@NTN24ve) September 24, 2018
The country’s Ministry of Communication took to Twitter to declare that the “new biometric system of fingerprint readers and the identity card of the country for the collection of gasoline has been a success.”
Nicolás Maduro also announced a new payment system around the country that will allow Venezuelans to receive their government subsidy. He has previously claimed that as a result of nationwide fuel subsidies, foreigners were cheating the country out of millions of dollars.
“We are going to bring global technology from China, which combines payment in cash, with card and QR,” he said on Tuesday.
Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, access to gasoline in Venezuela has plummeted amid a chronic lack of production and the government’s failure to pay shipping costs for imports.
The major factor has been the near total collapse of the Venezuelan state-run oil company Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA), which is now controlled by military generals with little experience in oil production. Thousands of workers have left the company over the past year over negligible and deteriorating working conditions.
35 Comments on "Venezuela: Queues of Up to Five Days to Access Gasoline"
dave thompson on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 8:58 am
The so called “near total collapse of the Venezuelan state-run oil company Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA)” is a direct result of U$ (CIA) meddling that has been going on for years. The US wants to control the Venezuelan oil industry.
JuanP on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 10:04 am
There is a very simple solution to this problem. Venezuela needs to stop subsidizing gasoline. It’s easier said than done, though.
Duncan Idaho on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 10:21 am
Isn’t Breitbart a comedy program?
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 11:29 am
duncon
My favorite breitbart article was one they put out a few weeks ago about the hot house paper done at the US national academy of sciences..they said “New hothouse paper by climate alarmist is the new excuse for global governance”..Not kidding ..
Nearly all fake news comes from the right..because most right wingers in general are idiots who will believe anything..
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 11:48 am
Today we learn of a 3rd Accusor and that Kavanaugh and his friends participated in train rapes after drugging up girls drinks at parties.
Didn’t Bill Cosby just get sentenced to jail for doing somethimg similar!
Darrell Cloud on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 12:34 pm
Mob, I love your new political tactic. An unsubstantiated allegation of unwanted touching launched in the eleventh hour of a confirmation process is all that may now be all that is necessary to destroy an appointment to the Supreme Court. If this flies, every male bureaucrat and every male politician will be ousted by an assertion that he inappropriately touched some girl in third grade. Feminism will have finally silenced males forever.
What the hell does a Supreme Ct appointment have to do with Venezuelan gas lines?
Donad J Chump on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 1:53 pm
@Darrell Cloud Hopefully, you didn’t run trains on drunk young girls.
Why aren’t you speaking up for Bill Cosby, or is that selective outrage I’m reading from you?
It’s only a crime when someone you don’t like does it.
Davy on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 2:16 pm
Darrel is correct, this dog and pony show has made a mockery of our system. If the liberal left ever wants my vote they will turn their back on this behavior. Their strategy is now based primarily on politics of victimization. They want to get as many minorities, women, sexual persuasion, and income classes pissed off as they can and then say they have solutions. This is a disgusting spectacle. I did not follow Crosby deal much he was put through the court of law not a soap opera. He got what was coming. This Kavanaugh deal is not legitimate. I in no way support right wing extremist and I am not a racist. What is happening is above right and left. It is about the constitution and the rule of law.
Darrell Cloud on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 2:41 pm
Don,I worked law enforcement for a decade. I took criminal law at Samford and I taught criminal justice on the college level for a number of years.
So, I am somewhat familiar with the subject. An allegation is not a crime under American law.The two red scares and the Salem witch trials stand as aberrations in American history.
A thirty year old alleged incident that is not corroborated by a single police report in no way constitutes a crime.
This allegation does however constitute slander if it costs the Judge his appointment.
Sissyfuss on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 3:03 pm
What about the fact that the right never let Obamas pick see the light of day. What we have and have had for the last 4 decades is a feckless left and a cutthroat right running in circles. Politics is impotent in dealing with the coming multitudes of conundrum.
Darrell Cloud on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 4:09 pm
Sis did you forget about Sotomayor and Kagan? Both were appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 5:31 pm
Davy
You are a total nut job who only post from zerohedge..You are on the luntic fringe..And without mommy and daddy you wouldn’t have shit..You are not a self made man, like I am..And you never will be..
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 5:33 pm
Davy
You are such a fucking pussy you call science papers ‘broken links”..You are too scared to open them and learn..Knowledge is bad for the ignorant.You can only post from zerohedge because you need a safe space that fits your extremist agenda..You are no different than clogg a nazi scum bag..
Anonymouse1 on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 5:50 pm
Hey ‘davyturd’, you might want to consider checking into the nearest mental asylum ASAP. Staging these ‘fights’ with your own sock-puppet, is pretty weird, even by your, ahem, ‘standards’. I guess sitting on your .5 acre ‘farm’, far from other humans, or other amerikans even, is clearly taking its toll on what little sanity you may have (once) possessed.
Ghung on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 6:09 pm
Davy said; “Darrel is correct, this dog and pony show has made a mockery of our system.”
Jeez, Davy, this has been going on for years. This is just BAU. And the crybaby republicans won’t even get close to the fact that they refused to give Obama his Constitutional due. Payback city.
Independents like me, disgusted with this whole political breakdown/circus, while we have serious problems to solve, are really the only ones who have a legitimate truck, fucking tired of your multi-trillons dollar, utterly dysfunctional, two-party political charade.
Davy on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 6:29 pm
Ghung, I’m an independent obviously you are not or you would not have attacked me as a republican. I voted for dumbass Obama twice and now regret it. So geeze yourself.
Ghung on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 7:18 pm
” They want to get as many minorities, women, sexual persuasion, and income classes pissed off as they can and then say they have solutions. This is a disgusting spectacle. ….. This Kavanaugh deal is not legitimate.”
Who is “they”, Davy? Like I said, payback’s a bitch. But as long as this country’s two-party system keeps electing old white assholes like Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, this is what we’ll get.
A Supreme Court appointment is for life and this one will likely affect my great grandkids, so air it all out. No more ridiculous than everything else going on in DC.
DMyers on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 7:48 pm
Five Days Waiting in Venezuela
Day One: “My God, a whole day gone already on this shit. But I’m in it now. I’m gonna get my gas. I have to get to work, if I still have a job after I didn’t show up after however many days. I think they’ll understand. María has to go to work….”
Day Two: “I’m in it now. I’m in it now…. Come on, fucker, move on. Close the line. I need some gas! Hey, buddy. You see this big red can? I’m gonn fill’er up! Hell yes!”
Day Three: “You little piece of shit! You can’t take a nap right here. Move it! Close the line! Hah! Take your fukkin karate chops and push that old man in the wheel chair with a dead battery. I am so sick of this. I’m in it now…”
Day Four: “How many more days? Hey! You! How many more fukkin days!? “
Day Five: “Almost there….I can see it. Can you see it??!! Hey, you guys. I love you guys. We’ve been through this together for five days. And there it is. I can see the trucks and the gas pumps. Please, if I collapse, carry me on. I have to get there. I must….I must….I promised.”
Davy on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 8:37 pm
“Who is “they”, Davy?”
The corrupt and bankrupt liberal left, ghung. Liberalism was our hope and now even liberalism looks hopelessly corrupted. We cannot expect the conservatives to make the right choices with things like renewables and emission reductions.
“Like I said, payback’s a bitch. But as long as this country’s two-party system keeps electing old white assholes like Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, this is what we’ll get.”
No argument out of me on that one.
“A Supreme Court appointment is for life and this one will likely affect my great grandkids, so air it all out. No more ridiculous than everything else going on in DC.”
It has been aired and it does not pass the stink test and it is getting worse with each new victim that surfaces from the swamp of unreality.
Anontarded1 on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 8:54 pm
i’m surprised supertard (pbuh, swt) even thinks politics can “solve” anything. jay hanson (pbuh, swt) said nothing will help.
i’m taking temporary retirement. in my absense please support, donate, pay jizya shedles for the benefits of supertard cody wilson (pbuh, swt)only. he’s a valiant defender of liberty and the 1st amendment.
Go Speed Racer on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 8:58 pm
Damn. 5 days to get gas?
How many days to get a
burger & fries at the drive-in?
boney joe on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 10:46 pm
“Ghung, I’m an independent.”
Christ, when will DavyDonaldTurd (DDT) start speaking the truth.
Lies and hypocrisy are his most reliable and consistent character traits.
boney joe on Wed, 26th Sep 2018 10:57 pm
Darrell Cloud:
I have fond memories of my criminal justice professor. Thank God I learned under this wise professor’s tutelage as opposed to a predictable crank. If you taught criminal justice, it was at a community college, that’s for certain. Your viewpoints and perspectives are too narrow minded to qualify you for instruction at the university level.
DDT, forgot to mention that you’re a disgusting misogynist as well.
boney joe on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 1:03 am
Anonymouse1
I can’t figure out if Davyturd is a conscious habitual liar or he lies so frequently that truth and fiction have merged into one. Any theories?
For example, this meme of his that he’s neutral, fair, and balanced is the biggest crock of shit. The douchebag is the definition of a right-wing partisan hack so he tries hiding behind an easily seen through vail (believing it affords him credibility). The guy is so slimy and plain gross.
Is it any wonder why he admires the habitual liar President Dump.
The absolute worst personality trait a person can possess is to be a liar and DDT has liar tattooed all over himself.
Darrell Cloud on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 7:01 am
Bon you are entitled to your opinion. I recommend Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. Its a good read. And, if I should find myself in a position to do so, I will still hold the door open for you. Have a nice day.
Antius on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 8:01 am
Boney Joe wrote: “For example, this meme of his that he’s neutral, fair, and balanced is the biggest crock of shit. The douchebag is the definition of a right-wing partisan hack so he tries hiding behind an easily seen through vail (believing it affords him credibility). The guy is so slimy and plain gross.”
Davy has made the effort of late to debate with you without being personally abusive. Maybe you should too.
The most noticeable thing about left-wing idealists is that you cannot tolerate people that do not share your views. It isn’t just a case of disagreeing on individual points; you genuinely cannot tolerate the existence of people that disagree with you. Which is why you refuse to share platforms with political opponents; you use censorship and violent oppression; you resent the existence of debates, because the truth is absolute so far as you are concerned; you seek to control the debate rather than merely being part of it; you violate due process whenever it suits you; you arrest, beat up and murder political opponents. Left wing idealism leads naturally to totalitarianism.
This is what I despise most about the political left. It isn’t so much their views or ideas; it is their utter inability to tolerate anyone else’s. That seems to be you (Boney Joe) all over. It makes you an inherently bad and destructive force, because you end up having no respect for freedom.
The ideals of the political right are embodied in the US constitution. To put it simply, the political right believe in moral pluralism; individual initiative and self-determination, but also personal responsibility when things go wrong; limits to the power of groups over individuals. They are not impressed by collectivist ideologies. They are not trying to change the world into some utopian construct. They are libertarians, who believe in individual rights tempered by individual responsibility. It is what made the US such a great place.
Sissyfuss on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 1:23 pm
No, I didn’t forget, DC. But that was how the system worked before the right became even more cutthroat. Diversity and feminism are the near future and prejudiced, misogynist old white farts are holding on for dear life but in vain. A pity we won’t last long enough to enjoy a more equitable society.
Sissyfuss on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 2:03 pm
Venezuela, another fine example of late stage Socialism.
Antius on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 2:30 pm
“No, I didn’t forget, DC. But that was how the system worked before the right became even more cutthroat. Diversity and feminism are the near future and prejudiced, misogynist old white farts are holding on for dear life but in vain. A pity we won’t last long enough to enjoy a more equitable society.”
A more equitable society Siss? You mean like the Soviet Union, West Germany, North Korea, Cuba, etc? Is true communism around the corner? How many times does a crap idea have to fail before even the most mentally ill of Marxists are prepared to drop it?
Feminism and diversity? Will men be neutered at birth and their testicles stored at the local sperm bank? Will white people have fewer rights to make up for the crimes of their ancestors?
I am sorry to say that I probably will live to see whatever absolute nightmare you and your kind have in store for humanity. If you believe what you say and have any understanding of what it means, then you seriously aren’t right in the head.
deadly on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 3:47 pm
I queue up to access every five days myself. I fill the tank and five days later, it needs filling again. You can also have a couple of five gallon gasoline containers on hand.
Can’t the Venezuelans just order their gas online and have it delivered?
Makes more sense than standing in line for five days, but what does anybody in Venezuela know? Must be idiocracy down there.
I smell corruption, something smells rotten in Caracas. How can it not be? The emperor has no brains.
Five days in line. Must be ok with everybody, who cares?
You’ll be able to stave off a visit to the gas station for a good seven days. 30 gallons of gas, 29 mpg, you can go 870 miles. If you’re lucky, you can stretch it out to maybe twenty days. Might as well get another ten gallons while you are at it.
Have three cars and just drive one until it needs gas then go to the next car until it needs gas. You’ll get some 400 maybe 500 hundred miles per car, you can rent them out for good money.
You can drive twelve hundred miles at any time if you rotate the times between fill-ups. Mark it on the calendar. Run errands for ten of your neighbors.
Should be able to capture some of the transportation dollar due to outright incompetence by a national company.
Eventually, you’ll be able to truck stolen crude from Mexico and run an entire fleet of vehicles. You’ll have your own private jet.
Sissyfuss on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 5:10 pm
Antius, conflating Socialism and Communism is a favorite canard of your ilk. But Capitalism, the enemy of the natural world, is as doomed as the polarbear. The nightmare in store for humanity cannot be my fault because I stopped participating in the dead end that is Industrial Civilization decades ago. I find that nonbreeding tree huggers have no place in the race for what’s left. But from your rant I can see you will have a very difficult time adjusting to your new role as a minority member. Maybe it will shrink that oversized ego.
Cloggie on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 5:43 pm
@Antius & @Siss…antagonism that can and will be solved by an amical or not so amical separation. Siss with his homeopatic ambition level wants to be humbled. He will be. He is a nihilist and a lost cause, with every now and then a funny oneliner. His problem. America is big enough for three or more new countries. Siss deserves a mixed-race communist paradise. Let’s bring it on, east of the Apalachians.
Antius on Thu, 27th Sep 2018 5:50 pm
“Antius, conflating Socialism and Communism is a favorite canard of your ilk.”
No. The architects of the Soviet Union defined communism as the end result socialism. The difference between socialism and communism is time.
Darrell Cloud on Fri, 28th Sep 2018 7:00 am
I find it amusing that the left embraces Darwinism with both arms arguing that things evolve from the simple to the complex. They suggest that top down central planning is the culmination of the evolutionary process. Their position is that if we would all submit to the edicts of the central planners, we would have heaven on earth.
They overlook the simple fact that human interaction is organic. Whether it be political, social or economic, the entire process is driven by trillions of random choices made by billions of people. It is hubris to even assume that a hand full of central planners driven by their own personal desires and preconceived notions have either the capacity or the insight to govern this process.
Capitalism is natural selection at its finest. Would be entrepreneurs martial their resources and they jump into the market. If the stars aligned, they succeed. If not they fail. What we have in this country is a mixture of communism and fascism with a smattering of capitalism.
The only place you find true capitalism is at a garage sale or farmer’s market.
Antius on Fri, 28th Sep 2018 7:11 am
Darrell, you put it more eloquently than I ever could. Utopian idealism is a disease of the mind that ignores the organic reality of human life. It tries to force humanity into some sort of orderly mould that it fantasises out of a misguided idea of perfection. This sort of mental illness needs to be recognised for exactly what it is.