Current Events > Venezuela issues travel warning for travel to US after mass shootings.

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https://thehill.com/latino/456333-venezuela-becomes-second-country-to-issue-us-travel-warning-after-mass-shootings

Venezuela on Monday became the second South American country to issue a U.S. travel warning for its citizens following the deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend.

We warn Venezuelans, living in or aiming to travel to the U.S., to be extra careful or to postpone their travel, given the recent proliferation of violent acts and hate crimes, Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro tweeted Monday.

Maduro tweeted the warning shortly before the White House announced that President Trump signed an executive order expanding sanctions against Venezuela into a full economic embargo, a move that included freezing all assets of Maduros government.

These growing acts of violence have found echo and sustenance in the speeches and actions impregnated with racial discrimination and hatred against migrant populations, pronounced and executed from the supremacist elite who hold political power in Washington, the countrys foreign ministry wrote in a statement. This year alone, these actions have cost the lives of more than 250 people.

The "indiscriminate possession of firearms by the population" and the "impossibility of authorities to prevent these situations" were cited as reasons why travelers should avoid certain areas, the foreign ministry said on Monday.

That same day, Uruguay's government issued a travel advisory, telling its citizens to exercise extreme caution against growing indiscriminate violence, mostly for hate crimes ... which cost more than 250 people their lives in the first seven months of the year."

The warnings came after a gunman opened fire at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart after allegedly writing a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto that described fears of a Latino invasion. The shooting, which killed more than 20 people, is being investigated as a hate crime.

Less than 24 hours later, at least nine people were killed and more than two dozen were injured in a Dayton, Ohio, shooting.

https://twitter.com/maduro_en/status/1158522699175645184
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they arent wrong
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We're talking about a country where you can quite literally get eaten by your neighbors

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Real talk how can they afford flights to the US?

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Irony is that by staying in Venezeula, they are less safe.

I wonder what the chances are of starving in Venezuela.
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Highwind07 posted...

Paraguay did this too.

But Venezuela is throwing stones at glass houses here.

I'm sure the Venezuelan government is aware of the crime levels in their own country, but they still have a duty to advise their people of other countries with major problems.

This wouldn't be so adorable if it were anyone but Venezuela lol.
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ArchiePeck posted...

Highwind07 posted...

Paraguay did this too.

But Venezuela is throwing stones at glass houses here.

I'm sure the Venezuelan government is aware of the crime levels in their own country, but they still have a duty to advise their people of other countries with major problems.

The Venezuelan government doesn't give a fuck about its citizens. This is just to troll the US
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Theres this guy in my social circle that believes that all the coverage of people starving and fleeing Venezuela is fake news. He also says South Korea is a puppet state and refers to the area as the DPRK, denies the Holodomor, overall says Stalin was a great guy, and he says that China does censor media there but only fake news.
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Doe posted...

Theres this guy in my social circle that believes that all the coverage of people starving and fleeing Venezuela is fake news. He also says South Korea is a puppet state and refers to the area as the DPRK, denies the Holodomor, overall says Stalin was a great guy, and he says that China does censor media there but only fake news.

So you have a troll in your social circle.
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Doe posted...

Theres this guy in my social circle that believes that all the coverage of people starving and fleeing Venezuela is fake news. He also says South Korea is a puppet state and refers to the area as the DPRK, denies the Holodomor, overall says Stalin was a great guy, and he says that China does censor media there but only fake news.

As someone whose family is Chinese, I can tell you that China's censorship is even more draconian and ridiculous than people in America think it is.


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It's not like these aren't horrible tragedies, but I'm sure the percentage of getting shot in a mass shooting is comparable to dying in a plane crash.

This is simply a political response because the USA raised the travel threat level for their country recently. For good reason, their murder rate is through the roof.
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DarkRoast posted...

Doe posted...

Theres this guy in my social circle that believes that all the coverage of people starving and fleeing Venezuela is fake news. He also says South Korea is a puppet state and refers to the area as the DPRK, denies the Holodomor, overall says Stalin was a great guy, and he says that China does censor media there but only fake news.

As someone whose family is Chinese, I can tell you that China's censorship is even more draconian and ridiculous than people in America think it is.

He was talking to me about a person whose grandparents fled North Korea and he was like "I dunno how to tell her that her grandparents were stupid and should have stayed"

All his friendships and conversations are a pretext for him to start wanking about communism and converting people.

He says the only way we can progress is with a violent revolution
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Highwind07 posted...

is throwing stones at glass houses here.

something USA does every single day
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Doe posted...

He says the only way we can progress is with a violent revolution

He needs to be permanently placed on a Terrorist Watch list and stripped of citizenship.

Sorry, his Ideological types are not welcome in Any Western Democracies.
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Shit hole country status achieved
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Only two countries? What's the hold up with the other 200 countries?
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Doe posted...

Theres this guy in my social circle that believes that all the coverage of people starving and fleeing Venezuela is fake news.

You really shouldn't believe everything you hear about Venezuela.

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/08/failed-venezuela-coup-was-fake-news-designed-to-fool-people-in-two-nations/

Ugh username but her emails links to a salon article. Either Poe's law is in full effect or this guy is also lost.

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MrPeppers posted...

Ugh username but her emails links to a salon article. Either Poe's law is in full effect or this guy is also lost.

I don't see any proof that those Journalists(not salon) weren't making fake news.

Lmao, Venezuela trying to troll??
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I think most countries have travel warnings for the US because of shootings.
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Darmik posted...

I think most countries have travel warnings for the US because of shootings.

Only 2 South American countries, both with higher murder rates than USA. Venezuela being the third highest in the world. A few European countries have issued them in the past though.
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We are literally killing them with sanctions eh tbh
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