Posted on 12/17/2017 7:54:40 AM PST by Mean Daddy
SAN CASIMIRO, Venezuela — Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death.
His father left before dawn to bring him home from the hospital morgue. He carried Kenyerber’s skeletal frame into the kitchen and handed it to a mortuary worker who makes house calls for Venezuelan families with no money for funerals.
Kenyerber’s spine and rib cage protruded as the embalming chemicals were injected. Aunts shooed away curious young cousins, mourners arrived with wildflowers from the hills, and relatives cut out a pair of cardboard wings from one of the empty white ration boxes that families increasingly depend on amid the food shortages and soaring food prices throttling the nation. They gently placed the tiny wings on top of Kenyerber’s coffin to help his soul reach heaven — a tradition when a baby dies in Venezuela.
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It’s amazing how fast socialism can tank a once prosperous nation.
If it wasn’t for the Petrodollar-Dollar keeping our currency from tanking we’d have done the same by now.
See, see! Them greedy capitalist pigs are responsible! Trump’s oil buddies!
Steath B1 bombers can drop food on the populace. Encourage a riot.
They’re on the Maduro Diet.
Wow now that’s a revelation! when are the Hollywood idiots going to visit and show their support for maduro? Oh yeah they have their hands full with sexual harassment black dress affairs to show their support for knowing all about this behavior and accepting it as business as usual. rotten stinking hypocrites the masses just love and adore
Enjoy the suck.
This is what Bernie Sanders wants for the US.
Very sad story, indeed. The only way Venezuela can escape this horror is by a military coup. The generals are all well-fed, I suppose. So I guess it’s all up to some Stauffenberg-type colonel.
Drop food on them on Christmas day right after the Tax Bill gets signed. Left will object because they are for starving children.
Any idiot who has even a cursory knowledge of history knows that socialism, hunger and famine are forever linked.
Of course they are.
The newest fad in Vz.
Enjoy the suck.
They did and they are deserving what they get.
We did the same thing here with Barak Obama and we came scary close to going down the same path.
If Hillary Clinton would have been elected she would have been the new Hugo Chavez
Thank the Lord for Donald Trump because we dodged a bullet
Mauro is introducing new Venezuelan currency backed by petrol and gold. I think that sounds like a good investment for Sean Penn.
I agree with what has been said......”After 10 years of laughing off predictions of Venezuelan disaster, NYTs finally steps up with some weepy human interest Pulitzer-bait....”
There’s starvation because Maduro has refused to accept international aid.
If things are that bad, then mama and papa should have keep their undies on so as not to bring a child into the world and watch it starve.
Again, there is no reason not to have a garden.
Again, there shouldn’t be anything in the garbage to pick through if the country is starving.
Again, they voted for their evil leaders and haven’t taken them down.
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