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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Demoncraps taste like the filth and sewage they are. Maggots and buzzards gotta eat, too.
That last picture in the sideshow shows some pot plants. They could be growing a garden in their yard instead of just houseplants. Also, being hungry doesn’t mean you must be filthy. Clean up the trash pile before it makes you sick. It doesn’t cost anything to be clean.
“A couple days ago, there was a thread about a farmer who’s family was supposedly starving.”
I agree with your post, and it reminds me of the bleeding heart articles that we’ve seen in the past in the NYT and WP about how these same South American farmers are starving so badly that they must resort to using that farm land for growing drugs, LOL! The sad thing is, I bet those reporters and other city idiots don’t even see the irony in their argument.
Right on!! Chavez and Maduro have achived true Equity....in a mere 15 years...and despite having humongous oil reserves. We have a unique chance to elect Bernie Sanders to fight Inequality and Wall Street! The Maduromdiet to the People!
[[No it is because if you grow food the government will come in and take it.
The is no up side in expending the calories to grow food if you know you will never be allowed to eat it. ]]
That is why at times like this you do not grow food in rows where it can be seen from the air and you get away from the cities .
Understand this , there is wild food growing all over the place , especially in tropical climates if you look . It is stupid to sit in a city and starve .
During war and famine many people have survived by going into the bush .
why ain’t anybody surprised.
Could it be that the drug business is more lucrative to them even in terms of getting food? Pay enough, and you don’t have to wait in lines any more.
You don't grow your food in neat rows? Really? Who knew?
Go find a forest and live off "wild food" for two months.
Let me know how it goes.
Euell Gibbons did :-)
He ate wild food but that was not his sole or even main source of calories.
Wild food will support you if you fry it in butter and place it on top of noodles as a side dish to your steak.
Socialism is, after all, theft, and the Venezuelans could benefit from a loan or two from countries and industries that their government has systematically defrauded. And we read here about a Chinese store that has just been sacked. That goose won't be laying any more golden eggs.
One might take comfort in the socialist end state of Equality for All, which is starvation for everyone, but the wealthy have escaped and the party and its elite appear to be doing very well for themselves. Only the people starve. Which, according to the author, was the justification for Chavez's socialist revolution in the first place. Only the people interviewed apparently think things have gotten worse. Probably just false class consciousness. The solution is more propaganda from the NY Times. I hope it's edible.
Wild food can support you if you’ve largely got the place to yourself and don’t mind spending all your waking hours foraging. You’d better not be picky, either, and eat the edibles that you find. It takes a lot of knowledge of the native species as well, knowledge that very few possess anymore. It would still be no walk in the park, even if you had all the above in your favor, but it would be better than eating dirt or starving.
This is a lesson that a lot of people haven't learned yet. I see comments all the time about Venezuela and other socialist countries when things go south. People ask, why can't they see what they are doing to their own country? Why do they let this continue? Can't socialists here see the same thing will happen here?
Conservatives really haven't wrapped their heads around the truth. They think socialists can be reasoned with using logic, and that showing how it fails all over the world will change their minds. Socialists know it doesn't work for everyone. They just don't care. They know they will be taken care of, and that is all that matters. Everyone on the bottom will starve, and that's a feature, because that's where the opposition will be.
Point being, if they know how to farm, and have the land to do such, the farmer can grow food to eat and not starve.
I grew up foraging because I loved running the woods .
For weeks at a time I would not eat at home .
I am not saying it is easy but those people are starving while their is tropical food all around them . If they stay in the cities some of them are going to become the food.
Right, it starts off merely absurd — no toilet paper.
But eventually it gets to the horror — mountain of skulls.
The trip to socialist paradise sort of has stages.
Here’s a new article that might interest you.
Record Breaking Production Drop In North Dakota
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