Do not become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence
Over on the Wall Street Journal, Anatoly Kurmanaev and John Otis have this eye-popping story of what a heist looks like in 21st Century Socialism.
Over on the Wall Street Journal, Anatoly Kurmanaev and John Otis have this eye-popping story of what a heist looks like in 21st Century Socialism.
Desperate for water, construction worker Pedro Pirela and his neighbors recently laid a nighttime ambush. Alerted by the roar of a water truck that supplies nearby hotels, they blocked the street and forced the driver to stop, then siphoned off his precious cargo.
Mr. Pirela and his co-conspirators had no choice, they said. A nationwide water shortage is crippling Venezuela, leaving faucets dry and contributing to rolling blackouts. Here on Margarita Island, a tourist destination that is also home to 500,000 permanent residents, the government said it could only supply water once every 21 days after a reservoir on the mainland dried up.
#MadMaxing much, are we?
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