This general is for identifying, discussing, mapping, researching and tracking various trafficking networks and enterprises. There is a consistent trend of data showing that Best Korea is based as fuck and that Dokdo is rightful Korean clay. Feel free to submit tips or contribute with memes, infographs etc.
Trafficking can happen in many forms depending on the product being moved (human, guns, drugs, rare animals/art, organs etc.) and involve many different groups and organizations. We track all types.
Do not encourage violence here, we aren't trying to give them any excuses to shut it down.
Newcomers should pay attention to shills targeting these threads with discrediting/discouraging attempts as well as injection of misinformation and bad leads.
Look for these kinds of things to map out the trafficking/smuggling networks:
[Secret Compartments in Vehicles/Ships/Aircraft & Types of Transport](Vans, Semi-Trucks, Buses, Trains etc for Land, Yachts, Cruise Ships, Container/Cargo Ships, Ferry's etc for Sea, Private Jets, Commercial/Cargo Flights, etc for Air.)(Sewers & Subway Tunnels can also be used).
Trafficking/smuggling also has several different categories:
>He is one of the most powerful leaders of the Venezuelan government, a hard-liner who has put down protests, confronted rebels and been a constant presence at the side of Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian president.
>But for years, Tareck El Aissami, one of Mr. Maduro’s closest confidants, has also been the target of wide-ranging investigations by his own country’s intelligence agency into his ties to the criminal underworld.
>According to a secret dossier compiled by Venezuelan agents, Mr. El Aissami and his family have helped sneak Hezbollah militants into the country, gone into business with a drug lord and shielded 140 tons of chemicals believed to be used for cocaine production — helping make him a rich man as his country has spiraled into disarray.
It seems that Venezuela is behind the ISIS/Hezbollah infiltration in South America, which considering what we now know about Cuba, means that Cuba might also be behind the ISIS presence in SA and is working with George Soros to try to collapse SA into America.
>The intelligence report also includes HSBC bank statements of accounts tied to Mr. El Aissami’s brother, Feraz, that totaled nearly $45 million — money it says was linked to Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
>HSBC closed the Feraz accounts after Mr. Makled was arrested on drug trafficking charges, according to the intelligence documents.
The same international bank that John Bolton is connected to is also connected to Venezuela it seems. Really makes you think about Bolton’s role in all of this if he’s connected to the same groups that destabilized Venezuela and South America.
That's a good point, they are a great place to share research and talk to people.
Definitely says something and I enjoy these calm periods.
Nicholas Miller
Great, and not yet
Dominic Brooks
I don't like seeing mass suffering and death. That is why I got involved with stabilizing Syria(still monitoring), focusing on getting North Korea and the Korean Peninsula at peace currently, and why I'm not concerned with Venezuela.
You have millions of starving desperate people in Venezuela right now. This includes the Military, which only a select few groups of it are getting the best rations so they protect Maduro.
What is going to happen to them?. Will they die from lack of food, lack of water, disease or the government forces?.
They will all flee to other countries and will leap-frog to get to the US.
Do you ever orchestrate aid/relief to civilians? Or just focus more on supporting, selling to, and being the forces that try to maintain stable societies?
Connor Walker
Don't know if you know but Yongsan US Army base is in the process of closing down. Might be a couple more years before it's completely demolished (that's the plan) but as of now it's running on limited staff. Dunno if that helps Intel.
Isaac Perry
and why I'm concerned with Venezuela*
Very concerned might I add, you rarely have millions in one country starving in this modern era.
Jaxon Morris
>Do you ever orchestrate aid/relief to civilians? >Or just focus more on supporting, selling to, and being the forces that try to maintain stable societies?
Lets just say I help people make informed decisions.
Elijah Reed
Ah, I thought you were saying that you weren't interested in info in Venezuela due to how you originally worded it. Cuba's role as a hand for SA for the benefit of various globalist groups is quite interesting. So is George Soros's involvement. It's very much a similar play book to Ukraine and even utilizes some of the same groups.
If you want to know what Russia's intentions are in Venezuela, look at what they are and aren't bringing over in the Cargo Planes and Transport Aircraft.
No food is being shipped in. Weapons and "Advisory Personnel" are.
I am interested in Venezuela info, if you have been seeing all my posts about it recently.
Colton Bailey
Cuba is trying to bait the US and Russia into fighting, this is a similar playbook by Cuba to what they did during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
They would have Russian assets move in and get the focus of the US, while they do other things.
>Both Avaaz and for-profit sister organization, Purpose, have been key players in building mainstream acquiescence both domestically and internationally for the destabilization of sovereign states.
>This pattern goes back to at least 2004 when Avaaz co-founders campaigned for foreign intervention via a no-fly zone on Darfur under the auspices of Res Publica, an NGO founded by Tom Perriello (co-founder of DarfurGenocide.org, later U.S. Congressman), Ricken Patel (consultant for the United Nations, co-founder of DarfurGenocide.org) and Tom Pravda (U.K. diplomat, U.S. State Department). In 2007, these same individuals founded Avaaz in addition to Ali Pariser (MoveOn), Andrea Woodhouse (World Bank) and spouse David Madden (World Bank). Co-founders of Purpose include David Madden as well as James Sleezak. Purpose Europe was co-founded with Tim Dixon, who has co-founded seven organizations since 2010 including The Syria Campaign, The Rules, Movilizatorio (MOV) and the Jo Cox Foundation.
>In addition to the aforementioned individuals, Avaaz was also co-founded by parent organizations MoveOn and Res Publica with financing from George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI). Assistance was also provided by OSI’s Arych Neier. Aryeh Neier is President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and served as President from 1993 to 2012. He is the co-founder of Human Rights Watch (1988) which was founded in 1978 as the U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, financed by the Ford Foundation.
>At the helm of this new model is Avaaz/Purpose co-founder Jeremy Heimans. Purpose, the PR firm (with many arms) specializes in movement building and behavioural change.
Carson Ross
>Heiman’s vision is to organize “people not as citizens but as consumers” to further empower corporations and brands that he refers to as “the angels”. Partners include some of the world’s most powerful corporations, foundations and institutions including The Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Unilever, Ikea, General Electric, Starbucks, TED, Oxfam, SEIU, WHO, Unicef, ACLU, British Telecom, the Concordia Summit and Nike. Collaborators include We Mean Business and The B Team which is registered to the address of Purpose New York. With strong ties and loyalties to many elite institutions and oligarchs such as Purpose partner the United Nations (where Heimans cut his teeth as in intern in 1999), the Omidyar Network and Virgin’s Richard Branson (founder of The B Team, The Elders, Carbon War Room, etc.), Purpose is now global with seven international offices operating in New York, San Francisco, London, New Delhi, Nairobi, Sao Paulo, and Sydney. This expansion is in line with new behavioural insight teams that are steadily proliferating in government buildings across the globe.
>Patel wrote two theses while he was there. The first was on the Asian financial crisis that began in summer 1997. He handed that one in to his tutors. The second was entitled "What’s wrong with the world and what to do about it". The only person who got to see that was his mother. After Oxford, he went to Harvard, where his graduate thesis—on non-military protection of civilians in areas of conflict—was supervised by Michael Ignatieff, the intellectual broadcaster who became a Canadian politician. At the John F. Kennedy school of government, internships are part of the course, and Patel, typically, interned at the United Nations for the then secretary-general, Kofi Annan.
>At Harvard he read a case study about Zainab Bangura, an activist in Sierra Leone, who had defended voters at the polls from the threats of soldiers. Patel wrote to Bangura saying he’d like to work for her. A year later, she decided to run for president. "We had two old political parties," he recalls, "fat old men, who had stolen the country blind, destroyed the country, driven it into war, profited from the war and now they were the only two options for people to vote for." The idea was to offer a third choice. How did that pan out? "Miserably." Their party got less than 1% of the vote. He discovered that the choice most people wanted was more money. Election time was the only moment they had any bargaining power.
Juan Morales
>Patel knew that the "internationals" preferred to stay in the capital with their air-conditioned houses and smart cars, but on his third day in Sierra Leone he left Freetown and headed out, first on a bus and then walking, to look for the rebel leaders. When he found them, he told them he was a student doing research. The 26-year-old rebel leader sat in the front of a pick-up truck, as if he were the driver, to see if Patel recognised him (he didn’t). Patel had brought his own food, and stayed with rebels."They were a lost youth, but they had an idealism of a type and talked about revolution and justice."
>He sees his time in Sierra Leone, and then Liberia and Sudan, in diagnostic terms. "I was looking at patients, I almost felt I was becoming a doctor looking at acute cases when things had really fallen apart and then being able to see the early stages of those pathologies in all our societies. Sierra Leonan culture had fallen apart. Sons were stealing from their mothers." He talked to men who had killed women and children and he found these interviews notable for their "banality"; time and again, everyday stories of betrayal, fear and anger had led to events of "extreme cruelty". After Africa, Patel went to live in Kandahar. "Afghanistan had suffered economic failure, state failure, environmental failure and terrible drought, but the culture, the tribal systems and the family systems, the clans and the communities, were rock-strong."
Parker Ortiz
>As well as the UN, Patel has worked—either directly or as a consultant—for the International Crisis Group, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, Care International and the International Centre for Transitional Justice, experiences that seem to have galvanised him as much as the war zones. Given the talent they hire, he believes non-governmental organisations (NGOs) underperform: "The public sector is just mandate-obsessed and risk-averse and controversy-allergic." And achingly slow too. He takes the kind of numerical approach that you would expect in business into the world of NGOs. Only the numbers that he obsesses about are individual actions: 117m so far, according to the website.
As you can see, they convey themselves as a hippie, liberal, human rights group under the guise of initiatives as these. Interesting how they seem to support the Yellow Vest protests as well, but that isn't too surprising when you learn more about the group.
>Now let’s also take a look at those “leading global social entrepreneurs” who co-founded Avaaz.
>The International Crisis Group has George Soros as a “trustee” (my how that man gets around). Other trustees include Wes Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, several retired state department officials, ambassadors, diplomats and prime ministers.
>Tom Perriello, the second name on Avaaz’s list of individual founders is a “United States State Department official”, and a lawyer, who “served one term as a U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 5th congressional district.” He is also a member of the Democratic Party. He formerly served as President and CEO of Center for American Progress Action Fund and Counselor for Policy at Center for American Progress.He apparently worked as a “consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice” in Kosovo (2003), Darfur (2005), and Afghanistan (2007) where he worked on Orwellian-sounding “justice-based security strategies”.
Jack Gray
>building social movements and behavioral change Fancy way of wording social engineering
Easton Cook
>Tom is also an avowed supporter of the war on terror, who, while in the House of Representatives (2009-11) voted for the continuation of U.S. military action in Afghanistan and opposed removing the United States Armed Forces from Pakistan.
>He is also on chummy terms with Barack Obama.
>Tom holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, where he won several academic scholarships and prizes. He has worked for the United Nations Development Program in New York, and as a diplomat dealing with European Union development policy and relations with the Middle East and Africa for the Foreign Office of the UK Government. He designed and oversaw a research project looking at ex-combatants’ attitudes to justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone for the International Center for Transitional Justice. He has written about African politics for the international consulting group, Oxford Analytica, and interned for Global Witness and the World Development Movement.”
>A fourth co-founder worth mentioning is David Madden, ex-army officer and “entrepreneur”. David’s previous employers include (go on – guess) the World Bank and – once again – the United Nations
So, you have UK, UN, Obama administration, and some EU connections in all this.
These articles that I have or haven't linked yet point this out too. It's a social engineering group like the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, but different. Both are UK tied though.
>‘Activism’ and ‘human rights’ foundation Avaaz blames the Houla massacre on Assad and calls for foreign intervention. A peek into the background of Avaaz explains its pro-empire position, and who is really behind it.
As you can see, these guys helped push propaganda and False Flags against Assad in order to justify foreign intervention in Syria.
>The UN is discussing what to do right now. If there were a large international presence across Syria with a mandate to protect civilians, we could prevent the massacres while leaders engage in political efforts to resolve the conflict. I cannot see more images like these without shouting from the rooftops. But to stop the violence, it is going to take all of us, with one voice, demanding protection for these kids and their families. Sign the urgent petition on the right to call for UN action now and share this campaign with everyone.
>Avaaz’s latest 990 form, from 2010, raises a number of questions. Avaaz has only 16 employees, and is listed as a ‘corporation’ for the purposes of the 990 submission. Oddly, for an organisation that receives no governmental or corporate funding, Avaaz received over $6.7 million in 2010, and paid its President over $180,000 as a salary (still feel good about donating?). On top of this, in 2010 Avaaz gave Res Publica (more on them later) a $100,000 grant. Avaaz is doing extremely well considering this and the fact that it was established relatively recently, in 2006. Where is all of this money coming from?
>Avaaz is “incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)4 organization in the state of Delaware, USA“. The foundation’s office is based in Manhattan, at 857 Broadway – the same address as Res Publica – an entity which co-founded Avaaz along with Ricken Patel.
>With pressure from President Obama’s ambassador, Todd Robinson, the Guatemalan judiciary is stacked with sympathizers to Castro’s groups. They and the UN-created International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), praised by George Soros’s Open Society, have protected the groups.
>As this magazine has documented for decades, the CFR is essentially the American headquarters of an international globalist movement seeking to erode national sovereignty and individual liberty worldwide. Basically, they support what many describe in public as a “New World Order,” which top globalists such as former President George H.W. Bush have described as a world in which the vision of the UN’s founders can be implemented by the UN’s military power. Billionaire George Soros said the murderous communist regime enslaving China should “own” this New World Order. If the CFR and its allies at the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg group, and other organizations in the “Deep State Behind the Deep State” eventually succeed, the fate of Cuba and China will be the fate of all humanity.
>On the Board of this AHTC sat David Rockefeller of the Council on Foreign Relations, Wayne Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland and Frank Carlucci, at the time chairman of The Carlyle Group, the world's biggest private investment corporation, which is headquartered on Washington DC's Pennsylvania avenue itself. Carlyle Group is widely regarded as the most politically-connected corporation in the world. George Soros was among its founders and major investors.
>A few years later something called the U.S.-Cuban Trade and Economic Council, burst upon and scene. Lo and behold, Dwayne Andreas again appeared on the board. Follow the money trail and most of these names keep popping up on practically everything associated with easing the Cuban "embargo."
>Somebody sees dollar signs, and it's not Joe the Plumber.
>When it comes to political influence, liberals denounce Cuban-American lobbyists as singularly unscrupulous, diabolically clever, and awash in ill-gotten lucre -- unlike those babes-in-the-woods Dwayne Andreas, David Rockefeller, and George Soros.
I recommend reading all of the articles I posted in full. That's all I have for now as I had to stop digging eventually in order to take care of some other things. I hope you all find this enlightening in regards to the Venezuelan situation.
Ian Lee
[All Countries that surround North Korea should put forward Denuclearizing deals to North Korea]
Don't just let the US get in on all the fun, instead of only just US Denuclearizing deals what should be done/offered is:
Russia Denuclearizing deals
China Denuclearizing deals
South Korea Denuclearizing deals
Japan Denuclearizing deals
North Korea should be presented with a wide selection of choices and options, which would show that everyone around them is on the same page with helping them.
Hunter Phillips
North Korea should be presented with a wide selection of choices and options for denuclearizing*
In other news, it seems that China's nuclear capability are expanding, that or they're just now releasing more details on it. I wouldn't be surprised if China's nuclear capabilities have already surpassed what's reported here.
beeen looking for abductions that have happened in seoul, and its been surprisingly hard to find info about that subject
Kevin Allen
I'm a bit confused by all of the logistics placed near the center of Seoul, as that's mostly just a big residential area.
Dominic Myers
I would advise looking into the locations of clubs where the recent sex scandals took place. Some of them might be in Seoul I think.
Luke Clark
Gangnam district
Brandon Rogers
You know >NeinChan has a board dedicated to this? They regularly research Doxx Pedophiles on their Doxx board
Adrian Stewart
You know no one is going to take your ill shill advice right?
You’re better off necking yourself
Ethan Evans
If they are starving how will they get enough money to pay for the food and travel for the journey in to North America?
Won't they all die on the journey and eliminate the NA refugee crisis before it happens? There can't be any refugee crisises if all the refugees die of starvation in Central America.
Jaxson Ross
>If they are starving how will they get enough money to pay for the food and travel for the journey in to North America?
Crime,Sex,NGO's,etc
>Won't they all die on the journey and eliminate the NA refugee crisis before it happens?
Caravans show otherwise.
Elijah Gutierrez
Sounds like we need to start locking up some Cubans in GITMO.
Xavier Moore
Can't find many bust locations but look at this, some of the same groups /HTG/ investigated in New York.
>The drug smuggling involved affiliated groups of the Taiwanese syndicate Zhulianbang, or the Bamboo Union Gang, and the Japanese Inagawa-kai crime syndicate, police also believe. South Korean drug dealers, which have no connection with drug making organizations, are believed to have depended on the crime syndicates. en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20181015005700315 >The international syndicate calls itself United Bamboo, the authorities said. They charged that its activities included major drug dealing, gambling, extortion, bribery, kidnapping and ''murder for hire.'' >A total of 13 defendants were named in three criminal complaints filed yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, with 12 of them under arrest in related actions in New York, Texas, California and Nevada. One defendant remained a fugitive. #2 Are Called Top Leaders Beginning in April, the authorities said, United Bamboo was infiltrated by five undercover agents, who worked to get evidence about the group, particularly its leaders, until the arrests. nytimes.com/1985/09/17/nyregion/asian-crime-group-hit-by-us-arrests.html >How Bamboo grew: 10,000-strong Taiwanese triad linked to Hong Kong executive's kidnapping is ‘one of world’s most dangerous gangs’ scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1873123/criminal-bamboo-growth-10000-strong-taiwanese-triad-linked
I wonder if these groups are UK connected somehow.
>United Bamboo emerged as the largest of several Beijing-backed assassination machines in the wake of the Communist takeover of mainland China. In 1984, their dissident hunt took them as far as suburban San Francisco where they murdered Chinese-American journalist Henry Liu in his own garage. Two decades later, United Bamboos gangsters are just as international but now have their hands in virtually every facet of illegal activity imaginable, including human trafficking, gunrunning, and the drug trade, according to the Asia Times. The scale of its illicit trade is only magnified by its shady, wide-reaching networks, with direct links to fellow illicit groups such as the Chinese triads, the Japanese yakuza, and gang members active from the United States to Europe to Australia. Taiwans National Security Bureau even thinks United Bamboos drug trade has reached North Korea with direct approval from Kim Jong Ils regime. A well-structured, underground mob, United Bamboo and its wheelings and dealings usually fly below the radar. But in May 2005, when a 10-km procession of men in black shirts turned out for the funeral of one-time gang leader Hsu Hai-ching (at 93, Hsu had met his end choking on a piece of nigiri sushi), Taipei was reminded that United Bamboo and its yakuza counterparts were still a force to be reckoned with. archive.is/DWYz0 >Rooted in Taiwan Connection : The Plot to Kill Henry Liu--Slayers Confess Details latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-03-mn-32691-story.html
>Duterte: Bamboo Triad, not China, to blame for PHL drugs >Duterte asserted: “The Philippines today is a client state of the Bamboo Triad [United Bamboo], they have taken over the operations,” adding that “they [triads] have decided to go international. Philippines is a transshipment of shabu to America and it behooves upon America to work closely with the Republic of the Philippines especially on this serious matter.” gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/627286/duterte-bamboo-triad-not-china-to-blame-for-phl-drugs/story/ >Perhaps more revealing of the growing threat posed by transnational criminal enterprises, the Philippine president made a further claim that United Bamboo had given the Islamist terrorist group, Abu Sayyaf, a franchise in the Philippines. globaltaiwan.org/2017/11/15-gtb-2-40/
Carson Sullivan
Looks like after Russia, Japan is now becoming interested
>There can't be any refugee crisises if all the refugees die of starvation in Central America. Groups shipped the caravans up hundreds of miles
Elijah Wilson
>The role Taiwan’s criminal gangs play in China’s unification agenda is in the spotlight over a recent clash between Taiwanese students trying to stop a cross-strait pop concert in Taipei, the “Sing! China: Shanghai-Taipei Music Festival,” and members of Taiwan’s Chinese Unity Promotion Party (CUPP) that left students injured.
>The CUPP is headed by “White Wolf” Chang An-le, a former leader of Taiwan’s notorious Bamboo Union gang, who does not hide his loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. Chang spent years in exile in China, returned to Taiwan in 2013 and has been working for unification since. His son, Chang Wei, was one of the CUPP members attacking the students.
>Following media reports alleging that the Chinese Ministry of State Security in Xiamen in Fujian Province established an intelligence operations center for political warfare and covert espionage activities that supports organized crime groups in Taiwan, Taiwan’s Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunn-rong vowed to deal with the matter. asiasentinel.com/politics/bamboo-union-gang-china-weapon-vs-taiwan/
China offered the Hong Kong Triads amnesty if they would work for Beijing instead of Taiwan a while back so most of them jumped ship. It looks like they did the same with the Taiwanese Triads.
But the real question is what factions are they working for in China and if those factions are UK tied. Xiamen is a notorious smuggling location in China so very possible those groups have UK connections from the opium days.
>Soon after Xiamen became a treaty port resulting from China's loss in the First Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, foreign residents on the island established an informal organization that became formally organized several decades later when its Land Regulations were approved by the government of China in May 1902.[3] Eventually 13 countries, including Great Britain, France, The Netherlands and Japan, were to enjoy extraterritorial privileges there and take part in the Kulangsu Municipal Council that administered the settlement. As with the Shanghai International Settlement, the British played a predominant role in the administration and Sikh policemen from British India were charged with the policing of the Settlement. The consulates, churches, hospitals, schools, police stations, etc. built by those foreign communities explain the predominantly Victorian-era style architecture that can still be seen throughout Gulangyu. Japanese occupation of the island began in 1942, and lasted until the end of World War II.
Anthony Hall
Just remembered that the Chinese guy who got involved with Shareblue was from Xiamen as well.
Hugo Chavez set him up to take the fall for Venezuela's collapse. Stay behind networks of Chavez have been manipulating Maduro's government for several years now and he had no idea.
Maduro being set up to take the fall is similar to what the Soviets did before the Soviet Union collapsed. They picked a leader that history would remember as the one who the country collapsed under/by.
Henry Harris
Is the UK behind/working with a lot of the groups doing all the trafficking in Asia?
The Soviets set Gorbachev up?
Adam Cruz
This is also what it sounds like holdovers/Deep State/Federal Reserve want to do to Trump
It looks like the UK set the networks up, lets them operate independently but uses them to move things around whenever they need it. They might even keep supplying them with product to make some extra cash. Is that accurate?
Logan Thomas
>Is the UK behind/working with a lot of the groups doing all the trafficking in Asia?
>It looks like the UK set the networks up, lets them operate independently but uses them to move things around whenever they need it. They might even keep supplying them with product to make some extra cash. Is that accurate?
Accurate.
Matthew Thompson
>Accurate. Is the US one of those networks they left up and allowed to operate "independently"? >pic related
>Reports in from Venezuela that starving people in that country, the beneficiaries of those glories of Bolivarian socialism, are now breaking into the zoos and butchering the animals in order to be able to eat them. We have seen this before of course, but when the Parisians did it they did actually have the excuse that the Germans had been besieging the city for 99 days. The Venezuelan equivalent stems from nothing but ghastly, silly and incompetent economic policy--but then such is Bolivarian socialism.
>One report here:
>Zoo animals are being stolen from parks in western Venezuela and police believe they are being snatched to be eaten by the starving local population. >A wave of animal thefts in city of Maracaibo near the Colombian border - including tapirs and a buffalo - have been linked to the chronic food shortages in Venezuela >Most recently, two collared peccaries, similar in appearance to boars, were stolen over the weekend, local police say.
Has Venezuela's Food Shortage Really Led People to Eat Flamingos and Anteaters?
>Reports also claim people have begun to eat horses, cats, dogs, and pigeons.
>Citizens of Venezuela have reportedly begun hunting vulnerable wildlife including Flamingos and anteaters for sustenance, in response to the country's dire food shortages.
>A grisly new report from the Miami Herald describes the rise of this unusual hunting practice. At Las Peonias lagoon, about 200 miles from the Colombian border, flamingo hunting is illegal; nonetheless, biology student Luis Sibira spoke to the Herald of coming across the carcasses of numerous butchered flamingos. While the claims have yet to be verified, investigators from Zulia University in Maracaibo believe that these protected birds are now being slaughtered by hungry citizens. And it isn't only flamingos allegedly being killed for food; other non-traditional game such as giant anteaters have also reportedly fallen victim to desperation.
>"Venezuelan Indians never ate this kind of animals, not even in times of the [Spanish] conquest," Angel Viloria, the head of Venezuela's Scientific Studies Institute tells the Herald. "This new behavior comes out of the pressure to eat."
Cant get much meat from those animals, if they are starving just the same.
North Korea for all it's historical food shortage and sanction impact issues isn't eating Zoo Animals. That means they are in a far far better state then Venezuela.
