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Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation
New York Times ^ | JUNE 19, 2016 | NICHOLAS CASEY

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: communism; cuba; hugochavez; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; socialism; venezuela
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To: Jim from C-Town

Well, if it comes to that I hear democrats taste like chicken.


21 posted on 06/19/2016 5:42:49 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: grundle

I’m really surprised at this point that the bus driver hasn’t been deposed by his own party.


22 posted on 06/19/2016 5:43:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: fhayek

A Fewl!! It’s a Clouseau-ism.

You meant:

If you like your food, you can keep your food!!!


23 posted on 06/19/2016 5:43:42 PM PDT by Calusa (Sprinkles are for winners! -- Progressive Flo)
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To: grundle

Justice will not be served until those socialists die.

Horribly.


24 posted on 06/19/2016 5:44:54 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: WENDLE
The event seared the memory of a future president, Hugo Chávez, who said the country’s inability to provide for its people, and the state’s repression of the uprising, were the reason Venezuela needed a socialist revolution. Now his successors find themselves in a similar bind — or maybe even worse.

MAYBE?

25 posted on 06/19/2016 5:46:28 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: George Washington Axe

I have no mercy on these people. They allowed this to happen with the overthrow of their government. If we go in to Save their ignorant butts— WE GET THE OIL!!


26 posted on 06/19/2016 5:48:10 PM PDT by WENDLE (Remove Ryan as Chairman on the convention!!! We have the votes!!)
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To: fhayek

There is no such thing as a free lunch.
= = =

In old Chicago bars, there were free sandwiches, loaded with salt, to promote the purchase of more beer.


27 posted on 06/19/2016 5:48:16 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: maro

That’s what I was getting at. Oil is great, but if you havent the ability or competence to get at it and market it you’re better off growing papayas. At least you can eat those.

CC


28 posted on 06/19/2016 5:52:18 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: grundle

Homobama must be so envious of the venezuelan government.


29 posted on 06/19/2016 5:53:55 PM PDT by Vision Thing (Vote Trump!)
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To: grundle

Government dependency.


30 posted on 06/19/2016 6:03:39 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE! VOTE TRUMP, at least once!)
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To: grundle

I guess this is what a SHTF scenario looks like.


31 posted on 06/19/2016 6:05:17 PM PDT by Fhios (The U.S needs Hillary like a fish needs a bicycle.)
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To: grundle
Send "the Bern" down there...he'll fix it.

FMCDH(BITS)

32 posted on 06/19/2016 6:06:21 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: 2banana

Wicked games of favorites are obviously being played... much as in North Korea.

You’d think even the liberals of the Western world would point this out as Display A about How To Do It Wickedly Wrong.

Venezuela will need a revolution or to be conquered to see relief.


33 posted on 06/19/2016 6:11:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Da Coyote

The ones who were most fervent about it will continue to be the favorites and WON’T die. Horribly or otherwise.


34 posted on 06/19/2016 6:13:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jim from C-Town
"Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves on Earth."

A little over a third of all of the earthy oil that has been located and can be pumped--enough to provide the world with oil at the current rate of consumption for a little over 8 years. Except that oil will be increasingly more slowly produced and more expensive. ...something to think about for those who think.


35 posted on 06/19/2016 6:13:41 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Scrambler Bob
In old Chicago bars, there were free sandwiches, loaded with salt, to promote the purchase of more beer.

What do you think pretzels were made for?

FMCDH(BITS)

36 posted on 06/19/2016 6:14:36 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: Steely Tom

Like the destruction of Cuba wasn’t enough


37 posted on 06/19/2016 6:15:57 PM PDT by The Cuban
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To: Vision Thing
Homobama must be so envious of the venezuelan government.

Yep..


38 posted on 06/19/2016 6:17:07 PM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: familyop

Based on current knowledge, but the ability to locate oil has improved when economics have forced the issue.

Right now the Middle East is king of practical oil output. Russia may be close on its heels, though.


39 posted on 06/19/2016 6:17:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: grundle

Notice there’s no comment section for liberal excuse makers.


40 posted on 06/19/2016 6:17:51 PM PDT by brianr10 (I'm more equal than everyone.)
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