Workingmen of the World Unite (No Chinese Need Apply)
And so, chavismo’s inflation-fighting plan has come to this: round up the speculatin’ chinks and ship ’em back to Chinolandia.
“Even if they call me xenophobic or whatever, enough is enough. I met a lot of Asians who were selling strawberries with cream in the street and now they have big businesses and mock our people. The State has to take control even if they complain “this atrocious Communism is killing us”, but what “atrocious Communism”? Enforcing the law. And if they don’t obey the law (and I’m not speaking only about Asians), there are other sectors that we already help them and if they don’t do their part, we have to kick them out of the country. If they lived better in their own country, they can go there then, but they have to stop tormenting our people”.
That’s a real live chavista National Assembly member saying that. Really.
(Check page 11, top half.)
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