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The real cost of Economic sanctions

 
Larr Pullo 2019-07-10 20:40:07 

The inhuman side of Donald Trump’s economic sanctions. Would he grant a few thousand Venezuelans economic refuge? No he wouldn’t. They would end up in a concentration camp!

In Port of Spain, the bar owner who said he was bringing one of the women aboard the boat continues his business unperturbed. One night in May, at the bar he runs in the capital, he flipped through pictures of underage Venezuelan girls on a cellphone, sent to him over the messaging service WhatsApp.

He explained the arrangement he had with the Venezuelan women conscripted to work under him: He pays a fee to the boatman for their passage, confiscates their passports and returns them only after the women paid several times what he spent to have them smuggled, he said.

The arrangement worked with the help of the Port of Spain police and the Trinidadian Coast Guard, both of which received payments, he said.

 
sgtdjones 2019-07-10 21:05:41 

The Trinidad government did not respond to written questions or requests for comment. Three commercial boat owners in Trinidad and a fourth in Venezuela confirmed that they had either made payments to smuggle prostitutes from Venezuela, or had witnessed such payments by other boatmen bringing women to Trinidad.

At the Port of Spain bar, police officers approached the owner, in plain view of several Venezuelan women who worked under him, and greeted him in front of a reporter.

“These are my friends, I know them well,” the owner said of the officers, smiling.


Welcome to Paradise..... sad

 
DAVE400 2019-07-10 21:35:56 

In reply to Larr Pullo

Did it start with Trump??

 
DAVE400 2019-07-10 21:41:02 

In reply to Larr Pullo

Obama ... strangle you with silk...

Dirty stinking war criminal...worse than Trump..

Gets a free ride for being black and oozing charisma...

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nitro 2019-07-10 21:43:12 

In reply to Larr Pullo

And the Nobel Obama issued no sanctions, correct?

 
camos 2019-07-10 22:08:57 

In reply to DAVE400

Did it start with Trump??




Trump overturned a lot of what Obama did,why not the Venezuela policy?

 
DAVE400 2019-07-10 23:28:45 

In reply to camos

That is the dumbest question u ever asked...and you have asked a lot.

 
camos 2019-07-11 00:04:45 

In reply to DAVE400

why is it dumb, because you don't have an answer?

 
DAVE400 2019-07-11 01:56:04 

In reply to camos

I don't have an answer because it is an infinite red herring...so probably not dumb...just intellectually dishonest...

 
Khaga 2019-07-11 02:40:54 

In reply to camos

Doesn't fcuking matter..who started it?

US politicians are a bunch of crooks when it comes to foreign matters..