Posted on 02/05/2019 9:10:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Caracas -- Europe has now joined the movement against embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, which continues to grow outside the South American nation. Inside the country, millions of Catholics have also joined the push for change, led by their church. In January, bishops called Maduro's presidency illegitimate.
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has visited a parish in La Vega, a working class slum of Caracas, where Mass not only fills the church, it draws an overflow crowd.
Father Alfredo Infanta's spiritual message carries a strong political subtext, though he says it's not directly anti-Maduro, as people must decide for themselves. The Church, however, has called Maduro's presidency unconstitutional. His parishioners might call it something else: a disaster.
Father Infanta took Palmer deeper into the La Vega slum, where there's been no running water for four months and where, if not for a free lunch program offering potatoes, cheese and a dose of vitamins, some kids wouldn't eat at all.
Average inflation last year reached a surreal 80,000 percent. Almost no one in La Vega -- or anywhere in Venezuela -- can survive on what they make from work. The economy is so broken that an average teacher's salary, about $6 a month, will only buy a few dozen eggs. Almost half the population of Venezuela would go hungry without charity or food handouts.
Meat is a treat. Ask Enrique the butcher, who sells the cheapest cuts to people lucky to be able to buy once a week. Politically, he's an exception here; he's still loyal to the government.
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Ya think????????
No regime can survive long, while parents are watching their children starve... PERIOD.
CBS is worried that otherwise normal left-wingers may be unfairly biased by the fact that their government is causing them to starve to death.
One hunts in vain for the S-word in the article. I guess it’s all due to Bad Luck.
No mention of the countries economic policies.
The word socialism does not appear in the article. Not once.
A couple of guys who never missed a meal. Same with Maduro.
A little late to the party.
Sounds like the country’s zoos have been picked clean.Reports out of Venezuela suggest that giraffe tastes like pork.
By design, bias by omission. CBS News uses the tag line "Real News", they should use "Real biased News".
Almost every article on Venezuela treats what is happening there as almost a natural disaster. Just one of those things that can happen anywhere.
It's a perfect place to put their policies in place to see if they actually work.
The next time Nancy and her cronies want to use an air Force jet to fly off to some European junket, Trump should have the pilots instead fly to Venezuela. Make sure to have the camera’s rolling!
“no running water”
What are they complaining about? It’s free.
He BETTER express total loyalty to Maduro, or he won't get any more meat supplies.
They all go to church now. Not because of God but because the little piece of communion bread. It’s all they get. The church runs out of them because of people going through more than once and the priests voices are going hoarse saying body of Christ too much.
The worst of famines have less to do with natural phenomena than they have to do with political objectives concerning the distribution of limited resources to combat the famine.
And that is entirely a decision made at the executive level, or the absence of any means of communication between the persons who control the resources and the persons who are in need of the resources.
Miss Bug Eyes needs to go down there and tell those nasty, greedy rich people at ‘the tippy top’’ to pay their fair share!
“A little late to the party.”
not THAT late, but nonetheless following in President Trump’s wake, with President Trump once again showing true world leadership like no other sine Ronald Reagan ...
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