Posted on 10/03/2020 4:12:08 AM PDT by Libloather
Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas.
Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten cheese.”
A widespread scarcity of gasoline is the latest blow to domestic food production in Venezuela, preventing goods from getting to market and farmers from filling up their tractors. Food production in this oil-rich nation, led by its socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, had already been hobbled by shortages of seeds and agrochemicals, price controls that made raising crops unprofitable and government seizures of farms and food-processing plants.
Venezuelans aren’t the only ones going hungry. Across Latin America the economic blow caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown millions out of work and into poverty. From Mexico City to Santiago, people are skipping meals, lining up at soup kitchens and begging, United Nations agencies say.
But conditions in Venezuela, which even before the pandemic was suffering the worst economic meltdown in its history, are by far the most dire.
A recent U.N.-sponsored report described Venezuela as having the fourth-worst food crisis in the world, behind only war-ravaged Yemen, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Loaded with natural resources. Her people starve. God Bless Marxism.
Venezuela is blessed with massive amounts of fertile land and lots of water.
The place was a massive food exporter...then something happened...
There is such a thing?
I wonder how many Venezuelans are on public assistance (subsistence). Are they all on the gravy train.
Potentially coming to a country near you soon. Pending the outcome of impending elections.
The magic of leftism when elevated to power. Why it must be destroyed at every turn.
The well-fed American left sees the mass starvation in Venezuela and the leftists like it because some dictator uses the word “equality.”
Ain’t Socialism wonderful?
Coming soon to you, if you vote for Biden!
He will. The Democrats go down there to consult with the Maduro Socialists on how to steal elections.
LOL! Good point.
Free preview of progressives’/leftists’ America.
Exactly. Just look at the only obese man in NK.
Hugo Chavez packed his country’s supreme court to make his socialist govt impossible to remove.
This is currently the DemSocRat plan for permanent rule of the USA.
Bernie’s dream...
The place was a massive food exporter...then something happened...
The government goons sold the water pipes for scrap to get money to refurbish their oil refinery.
Venezuela Is Tearing Apart Oil Pipelines to Sell as Scrap Metal
www.ampgoo.com › venezuela-is-tearing-apart-oil-pipe...
Sep 12, 2020 - Venezuela Is Tearing Apart Oil Pipelines to Sell as Scrap Metal ... is the only type that can be easily processed into fuel in the country's aging refineries. ... The move follows failed attempts to raise $ 800 million in funding from ..
No mention of US Sanctions, and our attempted coup there.
No mention of the Bank of England seizing Venezuela’s gold.
I’ve read that Venezuela has the best soil on Earth to grow food.
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