Posted on 08/21/2017 11:34:26 PM PDT by grundle
MIAMI — After four years of sending monthly shipments of medicine and food for hospitals and needy people in Venezuela, Move Org, a non-profit based in Miami, abruptly stopped three weeks ago.
Move Org had been sending up to five to seven pallets of donations monthly to help alleviate the burden that the economic and political crisis gripping the South American nation has had on its people.
But recently, the Venezuelan government banned the import of a series of items they deem “war material.”
Some of the products banned are… medical products such as first aid kits, eye drops, antacids, gauze, surgical tape, and burn cream, among others.
“… how can they ban medicine?” questioned Milagros Ramirez, CEO of the nonprofit, Sanando, which means “healing” in Spanish. She founded the group in Venezuela over ten years ago.
She has been living in South Florida for the past two years and has been sending medicine and food for hospitals, orphanages, and nonprofits. Like Move Org, she also stopped the group’s weekly shipments to Venezuela three weeks ago.
“Everything you can think of is needed in Venezuela,” she said. Ramirez said something as simple as denture adhesive is important. “Without it, people who wear dentures cannot eat.” Many of the items Sanando sends are now banned. She feels terrible for the children and senior citizens who badly need them.
Courier services can be found throughout Miami and they are used to send mostly food and medicine back home to relatives. In the midst of the allegations from officials and rumors that boxes are being opened and confiscated, some Venezuelan courier companies have completely stopped shipping food and medicine over an abundance of caution.
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Venezuela is a war with its people. The same war liberals are bringing to America, under the disguise of tolerance and fairness.
We should stay out of it. There are no good guys in politics in countries down that way. In those places, both sides are socialist, and both sides are corrupt. Let ‘em go back down there and fight their own war. After every involvement far to the south, they’ve hated us even more.
I travel frequently to Colombia every year. Spend several months there and have met many Venezuelans there. You are correct....it’s not our concern. They have been brainwashed for a generation and no good will come of our intervention. Sad what has happened but most brought it own themselves.
“We should stay out of it. There are no good guys in politics in countries down that way. In those places, both sides are socialist, and both sides are corrupt. Let ‘em go back down there and fight their own war. After every involvement far to the south, they’ve hated us even more.”
I have read that all told, there are about 600 million people living in the Western Hemisphere, most of them in Central and South America. With President Hillary, they would have all been “welcome” to come here.
Stay out of it. No shipments, no soldiers. The only thing that can fix this short of a revolution is a full-scale invasion and rebuilding on the lines of Germany in World War 2.
Or, better yet - England from the 1700’s. “Right then, it’s clear you savages don’t have a damn clue how to run a civilized nation. We’ll get you in order straightaway after we finish standing Generalissimo El Stupidio and his chums in front of a firing squad, when we’re through your pisspot nation will be much the better for it. Oh and if you don’t like it we’ve got a musket ball with your name on it.”
Who didn’t see this coming? Last week the Venezuelan government announced it was going to ban “anything that might aid the political opposition”. Like eating.
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