Zimbabwe delenda est.
Zimbabwe, as an example to the rest of the world, should disappear off the maps of the earth. That, and only that, would send a message to Hugo Chavez and all the other Marxist retards.
Instead, the UN will provide food which will be confiscated by the government and used as bribes or sold on the black market to continue to prop up the failed socialist regime.
You're right and starving people get to the point where they think death is imminent anyway, so social and political change would be much swifter. But you can't fault anyone for trying to feed them, even the evil and corrupt UN, when humanity cries out especially the little ones