Thread:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/@comment-25936766-20161216002229/@comment-25936766-20161218234831

Soooo....guess what.

The people are venting out all the built-up frusfration on...literally everything.

Huge crowds have ravaged many sectors of the city I live, and it's worse in other cities. Entire shopping malls, razed beyond recognition.

Entire sectors look as if someone dropped a bomb. No business was spared, neither small nor big, neither cheap and honest nor expensive and abusive, neither new and struggling nor old and standing.

This includes many shaggy dog stories, since many of those businesses were 1) Just starting out, 2) Just starting to improve and grow. 3) Were family businesses. 4) Had serious difficulties beforehand and were struggling. Or more.

This isn't restricted to just shops and stuff however. The people have ravaged every kind of building in every sector. This includes houses, razed to the same extent, no matter the people inside, both during the day and during the night.

The chinese got hit particularly hard. There's always been quite the hate towards them, since their entire MO is:

1) Come to Venezuela and turn a warehouse into a shop.

2) Go buy basic products that are barely available and/or cheap the moment they arrive, making them even more rare. This includes Rice, Milk, Sugar, and other stuff.

3) Force people who want them to either go join one of the horrendous lines that last 3/4s of a day, or buy it from them at amplified prices. (Their usual attitude towards customers doesn't help much).

And everytime they are the very first to multiply the prices when anything happens. As a result, yesterday and today many of them have been vandalized and robbed to no end, some chinese have even been killed on the spot.

There's some policemen and soldiers trying to keep order, but they know nothing more than looking pretty and throwing tear gas. Maduro supposedly claimed that 100bsf would be allowed again until the 2 of January, but it's way too little way too late.

I've more gunshots today than I've heard in entire months, along with multiple helicopters. There's talks of some crowd heading to the urbanization I live in, and just in case the neighbors prepared some Molotov and put some "guards" on both ends of the street.