Posted on 06/19/2016 5:15:18 PM PDT by grundle
A staggering 87 percent of Venezuelans say they do not have money to buy enough food, the most recent assessment of living standards by Simón Bolívar University found.
About 72 percent of monthly wages are being spent just to buy food, according to the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis, a research group associated with the Venezuelan Teachers Federation.
In April, it found that a family would need the equivalent of 16 minimum-wage salaries to properly feed itself.
Ask people in this city when the last time they ate a meal, and many will respond that it was not today.
Among them are Leidy Cordova, 37, and her five children — Abran, Deliannys, Eliannys, Milianny and Javier Luis — ages 1 to 11. On Thursday evening, the entire family had not eaten since lunchtime the day before, when Ms. Cordova made a soup by boiling chicken skin and fat that she had found for a cheap price at the butcher.
“My kids tell me they’re hungry,” Ms. Cordova said as her family looked on. “And all I can say to them is to grin and bear it.”
Other families have to choose who eats. Lucila Fonseca, 69, has lymphatic cancer, and her 45-year-old daughter, Vanessa Furtado, has a brain tumor. Despite also being ill, Ms. Furtado gives up the little food she has on many days so her mother does not skip meals.
“I used to be very fat, but no longer,” the daughter said. “We are dying as we live.”
Her mother added, “We are now living on Maduro’s diet: no food, no nothing.”
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“Hunger Games”...for real.
Bernie Sanders — the socialist — isn’t taking questions on the subject of this large-scale socialist experiment in our hemisphere.
According to liberals, all you need to do is give either money or food away for this issue to disappear.
This is obviously a lie against the fine country of Venezuela.
Sadly, I know a lady, there, with whom I went to school.
This is what the Democrat Party wants to turn America in to.
Economics are economics, Politicians are politicians. If you believe that politicians can deliver more than economics can deliver, then you are a few. As your grandmother, who never went to college, once told you. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
[[A staggering 87 percent of Venezuelans say they do not have money to buy enough food, the most recent assessment of living standards by Simón Bolívar University found. ]]
Venezuela has fertile soil and perfect climate to grow tons of food Venezuelans are starving it is because they remain in the city waiting to be fed by their government instead of walking out to the country and starting to grow their own food.
Almost all of them live in ONE city and they sit there and starve .
fool, not few. I don’t know where that came from...
He who allows communism digs his own grave. ADIOS!!
As I looked at those slides, I could almost detect the smell of brimstone.
Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves on Earth. Ain’t Socialism Grand!
I’ve been to Caracas MANY YEARS ago, and the POOR live in the hills and mountains above the city in CARDBOARD BOXES!!! I am NOT kidding.....and when it RAINED HARD, the “houses” would SLIDE DOWN the HILLTOPS!!!!!! And ALL these people VOTED for CHAVEZ!!!!!
You can’t do that.
The socialists in power seized all the farms and gave the land “to the people” - actually lefty cronies.
If you touched or started to farm that land you would be shot by solider or the police.
Well, the vote counters said they voted for Chavez and Jimmah Carter was there is insure the votes were counted properly.
Leftist socialist policy...it always ends in a mountain of skulls. Venezuela is just at the beginning off this journey.
Oil is great, but you can’t eat it! Something I think we need to remind the muzzies of every once in awhile.
CC
If you support socialism I have to laugh when I see you at the end of a bread line with just a penny
Wait a minute. I thought all Venezuelans have a constitutional right to free food and healthcare?
It is a human right. So why are they starving?
/sarc
You could trade it for something to eat if their extraction industry worked. Which it doesn’t, because socialism is premised on absolute power, which brings with it total corruption and incompetence.
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