Posted on 11/21/2018 10:24:16 AM PST by blam
Around 80 percent of Venezuelans are now short of food, according to the new data compiled by NGO Human Rights Watch on Tuesday. Following a trip to the Venezuelan border with Brazil by a team of health experts from John Hopkins University, researchers found that malnutrition continues to rise aggressively, with 80 percent of households unable to access enough food and rates of malnutrition among five years now over the World Health Organization’s crisis limit. In 2017, the average person lost around 11 kilos (24 pounds). In 2016, that number was 19 pounds; it is expected to have risen in 2018.
Combined with chronic malnutrition, the report also points to the scale of the collapse of the country’s health system, with practically every major health condition ranging from tuberculosis to malaria reaching crisis levels. For example, the number of malaria cases has risen from 36,000 in 2009 to 406,000 in 2017, while 87 percent of HIV patients now do not receive their necessary drugs.
Most of these conditions are going untreated, mainly due to a lack of necessary medical resources and trained specialists. Experts managed to collect such data by working with local authorities at the Venezuelan’s border with Brazil, where thousands of people are fleeing the country every day, many of whom are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Around 2.3 million Venezuelans have left the country have left the country since 2015, mostly to neighboring Colombia and Brazil and other Latin American countries.
As well as the humanitarian disaster, the country is also seeing a complete collapse of most of its institutions, infrastructure, and public services.
Nowadays, essential products and resources including water, electricity, transportation, gasoline, and toiletries are all in scarce supply, with regular blackouts across major towns and cities.
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If the socialists work very hard, they can get that to 100% by mid 2019!
Hope and Change! Forward!
Better get Moochelle in there with food dogs wont eat and get them really skinny.
No dog, cat, or pigeon in the park, is safe.
Soon they may be cooking and eating each other.
Z-Nation.
It never will get to 100% because the government leaders will make sure THEY themselves have plenty to eat.
So they’ll grow fat while the rest of the nation starves.
I guess they anted to “go on a diet’ as they voted for socialism. Tough luck.
I guess they anted to “go on a diet’ as they voted for socialism. Tough luck.
All of our leftists need a month or two in Venezuela to really appreciate what socialism brings.
Yet, the Venezuelans aren’t in huge caravans headed for the US................
You’d think that Obama, Oprah, Stacy Abrams, Gullium, Conchita, Alyssa Milano and Michael Moore would hop on down to Venezuela and offer to run the place and get’em back on track. They had all the answers before the midterms.
I guess WHO will be opening their checkbooks now...
Well - that's what they expect US to do.
So only 80% of Venezuelans are equal. They need to vote more Communists into power so they can enjoy 100% equality.
Try harder, Venezuelans.
Not true. They'll just say that Chavez and Maduro didn't do it right, but they would, given a chance.
I so desperately want a disease that kills Leftists, just to spare us the distasteful task that is pending...
I read a report approx six months (could have been longer) ago they were eating the flamingos down there.
Here is a fox news link from 2017.
Bernie Sanders and what’s her face are taking notes on how to bring that wonderful economy to the US.
Chavez won with 56% of the vote in 1998. They got the government they voted for.
It’s pretty sad.
Remember that news video of Maduro giving a speech and sneaking a snack every so often?
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