Posted on 07/13/2018 7:31:26 AM PDT by simpson96
Sometimes, photos shock the conscience.
Such as this one, from a little town in northeast Venezuela called Cantaura, posted on Twitter by a young Venezuelan woman, Stephanie Nogales:
Nogales, who posted it, says it is real. Which is why it's so shocking. How could this exist? How could someone be so alone and forsaken and without food? That there is actually someone in our hemisphere who walks the earth in that emaciated condition, brought on by weeks and weeks of no food, a living skeleton, so utterly impoverished of flesh and clothes it's impossible to tell if the person is a man or woman, is truly terrible. It should be on the cover of Time, Newsweek and every major media publication to call attention to a terrible humanitarian crisis less than 1,000 miles from our border.
Nogales (snip) says the person is now being treated.
Yet how did it get to that? Iit still shocks the conscience, especially when you consider that Cantaura is not the black hole of Calcutta. It's actually a pretty little historic town in northeast Venezuela with Venezuelan-inflected Caribbean architecture and a Spanish colonial town square. Starvation like this isn't normal or common. Yet the person pictured there looks like one of the figures seen in the Holodomor, the man-made famine the Bolsheviks enacted to starve the Ukrainians into submission. Something comparable to Nazis or Bolsheviks seems to have swept through. T
Actually, it did, and like those other evils, it has the same name: socialism. The same socialism promoted by the left, including some of its brightest stars, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They have yet to address this terrible result.
As for the press, its sin is that it refuses to say the word 'socialism,'
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That is what communism always brings.
Why doesn’t she have any clothes on? Weird.
did the photographer/journalist/ escorts FEED anyone? Or just emote??
But socialism isn't a terrible result for Bernie Sanders. It's made him a millionaire with three homes. It's made Ocasio-Cortez a "rock star". Socialism always makes it's leaders rich, famous and powerful. That's why people like this love it so.
Because she’s dying?
If there is no food on stores shelves to purchase, how exactly can the photographer help?
Hire a cargo ship of food?
With all due respect to this person, maybe because they don’t fit her anymore. Sad
Only if they happen to be on our side of the border to prove how much PDJT hates furuhners.
This reminds me I need to get my hands on the movie “Bitter Harvest” and show it to the kids.
Just emote. And stole her clothes.
Compare her leg to the one in the lower left hand corner. Sad.
No
It doesn't fit the narrative.
I pray that fat boy Maduro meets a bad end very soon, and that sanity is restored to Venezuela. In Jesus's name. Amen.
Does anyone know of any charities that are working with Venezuela, and actually getting help through to them?
What difference would it make if Time magazine did? Who reads Time? It’s not the ‘70s anymore.
Do you mean like help from America ‘the great Satan’?
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