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In Venezuela, hungry child gangs use machetes to fight for ‘quality’ garbage
By Eduard Freisler
Special to the Miami Herald
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March 27, 2018 08:43 AM
Updated 5 hours 4 minutes ago
As Liliana picks lice from the tangled, thick hair of her boyfriend, Patricio, while they sit together on the sidewalk of a Caracas street, she’s also multi-tasking, keeping a watchful eye on her “family.” When a 10-year-old girl named Danianyeliz kneels down to drink water from a puddle, Liliana reproaches her, urging her to have a sip from a juice bottle they’ve just found in a garbage bag.
At 16, Liliana has become the mother figure for a gang of Venezuelan children and young adults called the Chacao, named after the neighborhood they’ve claimed as their territory. The 15 members, ranging in age from 10 to 23, work together to survive vicious fights for “quality” garbage in crumbling, shortage-plagued Venezuela. Their weapons are knives and sticks and machetes. The prize? Garbage that contains food good enough to eat.
Liliana has a quick, wide smile and goes by the nickname Caramelo. She takes charge of each day for the group, deciding how much food her “family” will consume and how much they will stash away for another day. She settles conflicts that flare up and gives a hug, a kiss or a pat on the back as needed.
“Caramelo is my mummy and Paola is my aunt,” declared Danianyeliz, a newcomer who joined the gang about a month ago. She left home, she said, because there was not enough food to go around. The “aunt” she referred to, Paola, is just 14 and another member of the gang.
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Teabag09, something is wrong with your message. The title of your message CONTRADICTS the substance of what you are presenting. Voting democrat, the party that has inherent similarities to Communism, Socialism, and Marxism that doom the people to poverty and hopelessness.
Communism, Socialism, and Marxism, Islam, are the root causes of the extreme poverty of the countries you've portrayed. People were initially hoarded like animals to be feed without allowing them to use their potentials, the gifts of God that are given to people. E.g. NK, Venezuela, Cuba, the Middle East, and many countries under the dictatorial control. These people are under control of their leaders.
People are made dumb, lazy, and just ignorant slaves, just follow the leaders who hoard them like animals. As soon as the ration from the government dries up, then they all riot and cause chaos, and violence happen all over. The people are hungry, deprived of the basic needs to live as human being.
In free countries where people are given freedom to explore their potentials, their talents and gifts of God, are the most productive and innovative people. Where can you find them? Here in America, because of the kind of government we have as Constitutional Republic. We have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that the brilliant Founders instilled for their posterity. In addition, we are a Christian nation. There are unlimited potentials in every human being if they only use it, or if their government allows them to use it.
Many are brilliant, hard workers, innovative. You can find them all here in the land of the free, America.
Time went by, influx of different cultures from socialist countries, Islam countries, arrived in America; There are still remnants of slavery that they could never change, where vengeance and hatred, are their capital to survive. These are the biggest root causes of problems that the US is trying to battle. These people never understood that abundant opportunities awaits them. That all are allowed to pursue, life, liberty, and happiness. Several atonement were provided, but did not work. They persisted in hatred and vengeance. Those many who used their talents reaped the rewards from it, became successful.
But many linger in hatred, violence and to free load. That's the kind of lives they mastered. Democrats use them to propagate because those are their tools they have to present to the world. So their positions as elected leaders continue. A clever way, but deceptive and dumb.