Failed Investor Scheme Leaves Llamas The Victims Of Capitalism Being UNALIVED On The Island Of Antigua (DEEP-DIVE) Capitalism, Pet Industry, Tourism, True Crime, ETC

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Failed Investor Scheme Leaves Llamas The Victims Of Capitalism Being UNALIVED On Island, a group of American millionaire investors attempted to import a herd of llamas and alpacas from Chile to Antigua, a Caribbean island, hoping to sell them. However, The Capitalist venture faced significant problems leading to MASSIVE public outcry from Animal Activists, Thousands of miles from their home in the cool mountains of South America, a herd of woolly llamas and alpacas were stranded on a Caribbean island and are slowly being UNALIVED from heat and stress in the sun. The gentle, long-necked llamas and alpacas, distant cousins of the camel, were shipped here by American Capitalist Pig investors sell them for about $30,000 each as pets, pack animals for hikers and breeding stock for animal agriculture in a skyrocketing market, But when a group of local people, feuding with the Antigua Government and angry at one of the Americans, blocked access to a quarantine station, the animals were shunted to a barren chunk of coral rock and scrub brush, off the east coast of Antigua, where there is little shade and no fresh water, The Americans left Chile with 268 llamas and alpacas. By then only 179 were still alive, including the last survivor of what had been a group of 20 nursing mothers. 'We're losing about two a day said Francie Stull, a Russian wolfhound breeder from Texas who contracted to buy 160 of the animals for $1.2 million and has already resold 49 of them for $500,000, Plan for Wildlife Park, In the last decade llamas have become a trendy pet in the United States. The International Llama Association in Denver estimates that there are 25,000 in the country. Michael Jackson had one. Some female llamas have sold for as much as $80,000, 

The Barbudans have been quarreling with Mr. Strickland for years. To them, he has been the main figure in a company that has been exporting the island's sand for use in construction and paying the Barbudans only a fraction of what they think it is worth, a barge loaded with llamas and alpacas arrived in Barbuda, A crowd quickly formed and blocked the landing. The Barbudans decided to take a stand against Antigua and Mr. Strickland, Mr. Strickland said he and Mr. Kerr and two other American partners have lost several hundred thousand dollars, There are some puzzling aspects to their enterprise. One is that the Department of Agriculture said that the quarantine station does not meet Washington standards and that the animals probably would not have been permitted into the United States in any case. Another is that Mr. Strickland expresses surprise at the Barbudans's rejection of the scheme! After languishing for more than a year as virtual castaways on this scrubby tropical island in the eastern Caribbean, Rescued under a plan put together by the World Society for the Protection of Animals, Since Easter weekend, 1989, when the scheme to import the animals into the United States went awry, they have lived on a diet of livestock food pellets, hay and water brought several times a week from mainland Antigua by boat, When the furor over landing the animals died down, so did local interest; but it revived with a jolt when the protection society threatened to call for a tourist boycott of Antigua unless something was done. The threat struck a nerve: More than 70% of Antigua’s gross national product derives from tourism, Peru will accept them, leaving Kerr and his partners out in the cold, Kerr, asserting his property rights, is seeking to prevent the seizure, he said he has spent $1,500 a week for the last 17 months paying feed bills and a hired helper to tend the herd. His group also put $250,000 into the ill-fated Barbuda quarantine facility, Kerr said. “Those animals are private property,”  Eventually according to a source online, the Antiguan government, with help from other organizations, worked to get the remaining llamas and alpacas back to Peru, their native habitat, ETC!!!