Rise in Starving Children Puts Strain on Venezuela’s Hospitals

Panam Post ^ | 8 June 2016 | Sabrina Martin

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I made both my kids read and watch ‘City of Ember’ when they were younger. I think they ‘got it’. Now I’m making my older one read ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ as he loves dystopian novels.

[Phillyred]

Everyone’s covered, thank goodness!

[Travis McGee]

[Ellendra]

Even many of the soldiers aren’t getting food. There was an article not long ago about soldiers being caught stealing livestock because they didn’t have food.

[Bob]

During WWII, there was a cheap, single-shot .45 cal gun called the Liberator that was dropped by the thousands into Europe. Drop off a bunch of those and the locals can get their machine guns from the military.

See the story “What can a handgun do against an army”. Very enlightening. It’s been posted to FR on multiple threads.

[21twelve]

My wife is taking care of a gal, she was born in Germany.

“So what caused you to come to America?”

“I was a child in West Berlin after the war. The boxes dropped with food had U.S.A. written on them. I told myself ‘I want to live THERE!’”

[Bob]

Got the title wrong. It’s “What Good Can A Handgun Do Against An Army”.

[catnipman]

“Now I’m making my older one read ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ as he loves dystopian novels.”

Take a look at “Flashback” by Dan Simmons for the older one; it’s an interesting contemporary dystopia. Good but not great, as it COULD have SO much more. I think Simmons is starting to do what Stephen King has done for the last 20 years: go for quantity rather than quality.

[fhayek]

Starvation in an OPEC country. That has GOT to be a first, What kind of a loser do you have to be to be sitting on a sea of oil and still not feed your kids? I know the price of oil has dropped, but Venezuela is around the middle of the pack when it comes to the cost of producing a barrel of oil. While not Kuwait cheap ($8.50 a barrel), Venezuela at $23.50 is lower than Nigeria ($31.60), The United States ($36.20), and Great Britain ($52.50). Sure, they aren't making money like it was when petroleum was over $100.00, but your kids are STARVING. Pump out some oil and feed them, for gosh sakes.

I frequently talk to Bernie supporters (and lets face it, Hillary is a socialist too), and I mention Venezuela, and for some reason, they can't connect the dots.

[Mmmike]

It’ll be like Ethiopia in the 1980s. There’s no communist regime. No regime whatsoever. It’s just a place. A place where people happen to be starving. Cuz that happens sometimes.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Venezuelans oil industry is in chaos. All of the senior engineers are gone and nationalization has created huge inefficiencies. Their equipment is breaking down every day.

[fella]

There’s just something about the Hispanic language and culture that craves over bearing and extremely corrupt governments. Unfortunately we seem to have been infected.