BOGOTA - Colombia has shipped around 55 tons of ham to Venezuela after protests broke out over shortages of the traditional holiday staple, an official said Saturday.
The first 2 trucks of ham arrived in Venezuela on Friday night, a source from Colombia's national tax and customs office told AFP.
On Saturday, there were "2 other trucks ready to go," but awaiting final procedural approval, the source added, without specifying the amount of ham in that shipment.
The transport ministry said it had issued a firm a "special permit" to transport the ham to Barinas, western Venezuela.
Hundreds of Venezuelans took to the streets this week to protest that they had not received ham promised by the government as part of a subsidized food program.
President Nicolas Maduro blamed the lack of ham on an "international sabotage" orchestrated by Portugal.
Venezuelans are suffering severe shortages of food and medicine, as well as inflation which the IMF forecasts will exceed 2,300 percent in 2018.
[TheBlackSphere] In the latest WikiLeaks, you will see that NY Times’ Scott Shane actually worked with Hillary Clinton’s team on news.
In this particular leak, note how Shane provides in advance what the NYT will print. The list is a rundown, and allowed the Clinton state department to get a heads up on news.
...Mr. Trump said he believes members of the news media will eventually cover him more favorably because they are profiting from the interest in his presidency and thus will want him re-elected.
"Another reason that I’m going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes," Mr. Trump said, then invoked one of his preferred insults. "Without me, The New York Times will indeed be not the failing New York Times, but the failed New York Times."
He added: "So they basically have to let me win. And eventually, probably six months before the election, they’ll be loving me because they’re saying, ’Please, please, don’t lose Donald Trump.’ O.K." He's like Ethan Allen of Twitter
g(r)omgoru, I assume you got this from Hot Air, but you did not provide a link. Please check more carefully before you post in future.
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The "swamp" is entrenched middle management. Consider the guy that POTUS/NYT Ownership installs over an organization. What is the first thing that you do? Ask to be briefed. And who briefs you? Entrenched middle management who controls the levers of power and knows where the bodies are buried. They simply lie and manipulate the information flow.
You have to have an independent way to gather information because it isn't worth asking a question if you can't determine the truth of the answer.
The FBI 7th floor is the swamp. If it was me, I would RIF them all.
Then focus on Homeland and DOJ middle management next. Silence is assent.
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BOGOTA - Colombia has shipped around 55 tons of ham to Venezuela after protests broke out over shortages of the traditional holiday staple, an official said Saturday.
