Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Turkey: Whilst his country starves, Venezuelan president enjoys eating out at an upscale steak restaurant

(Istanbul)  As a child one of the books we had to read at school was 'Animal farm' by George Orwell . Its a story about how the animals on a farm rebel and kick out out the Human farmer and decide to run it themselves. The pigs take charge under the matra "All animals are equal"  and "4 legs good , 2 legs bad" however by the end off the book that matra is amended to read: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." and the pigs start to walk around on 2 legs.


Which brings me to Venezuela, which under the good intentions of socialism where everybody is equal, the country has seen a huge drop in living standards. The current president Nicolás Maduro who has no problem blaming everybody else for the sorry state of the country (primarily the US and Columbia) is currently in Turkey trying to secure cash loans based on oil security (Of which Venezuela is supposed to have the worlds largest holdings) anyway whilst the people of Venezuela are leaving in their millions due to a lack of food (90% of the population have reported to have lost weight due to hunger)  El Presidento and his wife had no problem living it large at a celebrity Turkish restaurant and it hasn't gone down well with the people back home:
It appears Maduro has no problem subscribing to the mantra:
""All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."