Feel the "Bern" yet?
Posted on 09/19/2016 9:29:38 AM PDT by pabianice
Food shortages in Venezuela, South America, has caused a dramatic increase in child malnutrition.
In the capital of Caracas alone, the number of cases of severely malnourished children is reported to have at least doubled.
According to Dr Ingrid Soto, chief of nutrition at children hospital J. M. de los Ríos, so far this year 65 kids have been admitted, whereas in all of 2015 the total was 35. And across the socialist country seven children under the age of 14 have died from simply not having enough to eat.
According to freelance journalist María Emilia Jorge, writing for Fox News Latino, 66 per cent of the children admitted this year to J. M. de los Ríos are nursing babies, according to hospital records. And the consequences of this are not only dire, but irreversible.
Dr Soto said: 'If an adult suffers from malnutrition, it will not affect his brain and development so much as it would a kid in the first 1,000 days of life, then they will have issues with memory, concentration, school problems'
In the city of Maracaibo, Zulia state, Maria del Carmen Chourio, a five-year-old girl with cerebral palsy weighed just 11 pounds until she was admitted to Chiquinquirá Hospital thanks to the support of the Angeles Chiquinquireños Foundation.
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Feel the "Bern" yet?
Oil-rich Venezuela is turning into North Korea. You have to give Socialism credit as an economic system. No matter how rich the country is, Socialism will turn it into a basket case where people are starving to death within a decade or two.
Venezuela, South America?
Is there another one somewhere else?...............
Venezuela surpassed Saudi Arabia last year to become the holder of the largest oil reserves in the world.Apr 28, 2015
http://geab.eu/en/top-10-countries-with-the-worlds-biggest-oil-reserves/
ain’t socialism grand !
The Socialist US Actors who praised this sorry land should give money to bring food to the children—rather than giving it to Hillary and her fat cat gang. Organize a Telethon to raise funds—rent ships to haul the food to that sorry land.
There are 6 places in the world named Venezuela
http://us.geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Venezuela
;~ )
Cant that POS Barrack do something .. ? /sarc
Very sad
We have our own 200 lb starving kids that stores keep asking me to give to. ~sarc
I don’t wish this on the children of any nation, but why this concerted effort to focus on this in the news? I guess the Left has to have some favorite project to drag public attention way from their albatross.
North Korea East
Let me know when they are thrown out of incubators.
4 out of 5 are in SA!..............
Time for Obama to send food and prop up the commie dictator. Just one lite miscalculation on the path to Utopia.
“Those watching from around the world, particularly in the United States, seem hesitant to put a label on Venezuela’s struggle. But for me and mine, it’s clear what precipitated this crisis – and we don’t share the hesitance to point it out. While extenuating circumstances like drought and oil prices have certainly worsened the situation, it’s clear there’s a larger force behind Venezuela’s woes. The force that is driving Venezuela into the ground is socialism.”
There are plenty of good people in Venezuela and in exile but this far they have been unable to kill the communism demons.
as they should be
Food aid with troops. Oust the bastards. Munroe Doctrine. Our hemisphere.
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