Venezuela Issues Travel Warning To Its Citizens Heading To US. I’m Not Making This Up.

It takes a lot these days to shock me.  This legit shocked me.

According to CNN, Uruguay and VENEZUELA have issued travel warnings to their citizens about traveling to the United States in the wake of the two mass shootings that took place over the weekend.

The Foreign Ministry in Venezuela said Venezuelans should either postpone traveling or at the least, “exercise caution” when coming to the US because of the “recent proliferation of violent acts and hate crimes.”

Can we just take a second to remember that people in Venezuela are eating zoo animals and selling their hair in order to survive there?

The statement from the Foreign Ministry said in part, “These increasing acts of violence have found an echo and support in the conversations and actions impregnated by racial discrimination and hatred against migrant populations, pronounced and executed by the supremacist elite who holds political power in Washington.” And it went on to say that one of the primary reasons for the recent violence is our “inexcusable indiscriminate possession of fire arms by the population, encouraged by the federal government.”

Venezuela has the 2nd highest murder rate in the world, 2nd only to El Salvador. It has been ranked the most dangerous country in the world according to Gallup in 2018.  But yeah, definitely starving people in Venezuela should be super cautious about travels here.

Uruguay is also on the State Department’s list of countries to which our own citizens should exercise caution visiting due to their own problem with violent crimes.  In fact, homicides were up 46% last year. But by all means, sound the alarms about the US.

via GIPHY