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Re:I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £7... by dexwiz on Saturday August 06, 2016 @01:37PM (#12238986)
Because they just enacted a law that allows the government and corporations to force employees to go work in the fields due the food shortage.
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Re:I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £7... by v768 on Saturday August 06, 2016 @01:48PM (#12239046)
Most of the laws are never applied and specially in the case of the ones like this one that are clearly impossible to apply and mostly for the show.
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Re:I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £7... by rafaelm on Saturday August 06, 2016 @02:43PM (#12239325)
Well, we don't know how bad things will get. Today they law is a useless paper. Tomorrow if things get bad enough, they could start enforcing it.

I think you are the second person in Venezuela I've found on HN. Check my profile for my contact info.

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