Zoo animals also going without food....Some 50 animals have starved to death in the last six months at one of Venezuela's main zoos,
Posted on 09/14/2016 1:31:29 PM PDT by grundle
When 18-month-old Royer Machado died from malnutrition in Zulia, Venezuela, the authorities did not arrest his mother.
The child had gone more than 72 hours without eating, but his mother lived in extreme poverty and couldn’t get the resources she needed; that was just the nature of Venezuela today.
The boy’s mother told officers she ran out of money, and then out of food. The baby continued to cry, so she wrapped him in a rag, gave him water and rocked him to sleep. After several days, the crying stopped. He was no longer breathing.
Officers interrogated the boy’s mother, looking for any sign of violence or mistreatment, but there was none.
“She really had no food,” one officer said.
This isn’t the only case of malnutrition taking the life of a small child over the last two months.
Ligia González, 8 months, and Elver González, 2, died from critical malnutrition in Guajira, on the west side of the country.
Hospitals in Venezuela are struggling to handle the amount of malnutrition cases coming through their doors.
At least every four days, a malnourished child arrives unconscious to the Central Hospital in San Felipe. Others tell doctors they no longer eat three times a day.
A survey conducted earlier this year by Venebarómetro showed that almost 90 percent of Venezuelans buy less food than before, and 29 percent of them are fed less than three times a day.
The study also revealed 70 percent of Venezuelans assess their economic situation as “bad,” while 89.7 percent do not have enough money to dress themselves. Seventy-nine said their income is insufficient for buying food and medicine.
Seven protests for food took place just this last July, adding to the 209 for the year. That’s an increase of 70 percent compared to July 2015, according to a study of the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict.
wait until they become the food...
/src on/But...but isn’t Socialism for the children./src off/
Socialism is the natural order...but we haven’t found the right person to impliment it!
Another Human Tragedy caused by a Socialistic Government and its “pie in the sky” policies.
Once upon a time, this was the kind of human catastrophe that the United States helped to solve. Where are we in this one? Oh, we are busy making FOOD (corn) into lousy fuel. How wonderful. /s
When the grown-ups get tired of watching their children die, they’ll do something about it.
Socialism kills.
Remember when people like me warned you people in Venezuela about what would happen?
And you Venezuelan socialists laughed and sneered and gave us the finger and called us racists?
Yeah well, enjoy your starvation.
Isn’t Socialism wonderful. Very sad indeed-
Zoo animals also going without food....Some 50 animals have starved to death in the last six months at one of Venezuela's main zoos,
Starving people do not have pets.
The Chavez / Maduro government has been very proactive on this front. The civilian population has been forcibly disarmed and the soldiers are constantly reminded of their duty to protect the leaders (not the country) and that they would be worse off as civilians! The pot is boiling, just remains to see how bloody the outcome will be!
Maybe they’re not quite hungry enough ... yet.
I thought the story was that people had already stolen some of the zoo’s animals and eaten them.
Sad thing all around.
where’s the UN food trucks?
“The civilian population has been forcibly disarmed...”
I could start out in the morning with a rock from my garden and by the end of the day have at least a handgun if not a battle rifle. Some people might get hurt in the process, but if they’re protecting a corrupt regime, too bad.
They butchered some of the zoo animals (horses, iirc) but weren’t starving enough to take the whole carcass. Either they were foolish or the incident wasn’t truly about starvation but sickos.
Hmmm, wonder why Sean Penn has been so quiet about this?
Those innocent dead infants didn’t call you anything.
Venezuela is becoming the Ethiopia of the Western Hemisphere, even though it has more oil than Saudi Arabia. If Clinton wins, could this happen here?
“Herky the Hawk, display friendlier facial expressions, arguing that his angry grimace is traumatizing students.”
Good point. Venezuela is the primary staging point for arms smugglers to ship armaments into Nicaragua and Central America, according to the last US Customs report I read. These arms are shipped from Eastern Europe and Germany and include some of the finest small arms produced in the world. All the Venezuelans need do is pool their cash, buy arms and go kick commie ass.
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