Looting Sweeps Venezuela as Hunger Takes Over
It’s the law of the jungle in Venezuela, as shopping for groceries becomes an increasingly dangerous activity. As the shortage crisis worsens, more and more angry mobs are raiding the nation’s supermarkets, looting whatever basic goods they can find.
During the first half of 2015, the Venezuelan Observatory for Social Conflict (OVCS) registered no fewer than 132 incidents of looting or attempted looting at various stores throughout the country. In addition, Venezuelan consumers staged over 500 protests that condemned the lack of available products at state-run grocery stores, markets, and pharmacies…
“Desperation is increasing, since people can’t purchase food, medicine, or personal-hygiene products,” he says.
Everything changes after a few months of being hungry and having no food. It is, in a very literal sense, like being a junkie who can’t find a fix. You get irritated. Little things set you off. And the prospect of a fix can make you do radical things you would normally not do. Let an opportunity for a food fix suddenly present itself, like one crazy guy triggering a riot in a supermarket, and people will behave like animals.
Apocalypse cometh™