Who says people are starving under the wonders of the Bolivarian Socialist People’s Revolution? These fine members of the proletariat are well fed, are they not?
Walked through San Pedro prison in La Paz 30 years ago. I had head from other’s that had visited that there were a couple Americans there. It brought them some stuff. Turned out that although I had never heard of them, they were from the same area I was from. They had known Klaus Barbie (a butcher of Leon infamy ) there. THey had tried smuggling and got caught. One had money and paid the judge a couple K. He received 3 yrs. The other didn’t and got 6 for the same charge.
They gave me a tour of the grounds and cell blocks. San Pedro was very spartan and nearly unsurvivable without access to money to the point that you bought your room. It was a city inside the prison with people bringing in stuff for prisoners to sell. A very large group of homos ran a wood shop and sold furniture to people outside the prison.
Prisoners really ran the asylum.