Posted on 07/13/2018 7:31:26 AM PDT by simpson96
Sometimes, photos shock the conscience.
Such as this one, from a little town in northeast Venezuela called Cantaura, posted on Twitter by a young Venezuelan woman, Stephanie Nogales:
Nogales, who posted it, says it is real. Which is why it's so shocking. How could this exist? How could someone be so alone and forsaken and without food? That there is actually someone in our hemisphere who walks the earth in that emaciated condition, brought on by weeks and weeks of no food, a living skeleton, so utterly impoverished of flesh and clothes it's impossible to tell if the person is a man or woman, is truly terrible. It should be on the cover of Time, Newsweek and every major media publication to call attention to a terrible humanitarian crisis less than 1,000 miles from our border.
Nogales (snip) says the person is now being treated.
Yet how did it get to that? Iit still shocks the conscience, especially when you consider that Cantaura is not the black hole of Calcutta. It's actually a pretty little historic town in northeast Venezuela with Venezuelan-inflected Caribbean architecture and a Spanish colonial town square. Starvation like this isn't normal or common. Yet the person pictured there looks like one of the figures seen in the Holodomor, the man-made famine the Bolsheviks enacted to starve the Ukrainians into submission. Something comparable to Nazis or Bolsheviks seems to have swept through. T
Actually, it did, and like those other evils, it has the same name: socialism. The same socialism promoted by the left, including some of its brightest stars, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They have yet to address this terrible result.
As for the press, its sin is that it refuses to say the word 'socialism,'
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
However, it is also possible that this is someone with anorexia or bulimia or an addiction or some medical condition, and the purpose in posting it was to later reveal the truth and discredit those who fell for the hoax.
Who.
Where.
When.
What.
I want confirmation as to who this is.
Maybe she ate them.
As Christians, a better prayer would be that Maduro see the error of his ways, repent the harm he has caused, ask forgiveness and set about correcting it.
Ain’t socialism grand.
Just as an aside, MLB has many millionaire players from Venezuela and neighboring countries. I’m wondering why they are not organizing some sort of relief effort for their countrymen. I know many of them were cozying up to the dictator in the off-season some years ago.
Ugh. Yes, they need to see it.
Still, you get my point.
Don’t go there and just despair — DO GOOD.
Write a check, unload trucks, work in a food kitchen.
Give the child YOUR shirt.
Simply snapping a photo is insufficient.
“I pray that fat boy Maduro meets a bad end very soon, and that sanity is restored to Venezuela.”
You hit the nail on the head with your sanity remark. Maduro was elected. The people got what they wanted. As with obama, he got a second term. This insanity is leading the citizens of Venezuela to their own suicide.
Fortunately for us, we now have Trump, or we’d be in a similar position with Hitlery.
Agreed. This go is beyond a nutrition problem.
My. God.
Needs to go viral x100000000000
Maybe she sold them for food.
Or they were stolen by another desperate person.
The first people to suffer when socialism sinks a country are the mentally ill and the handicapped whose caretakers abandon their posts in order to focus on their own survival.
Surely that Fat Assed Michael Moore can ship some food to his socialist pals. Cripes, this is truly horrible!
If food or other help were able to get through the corrupt government directly to the people who need it, I don’t think they would care who it came from.
Venezuela proves socialism is heaven.
Their money’s no good.
They’re expected to praise the administration perpetually.
It leads to nothing better.
Simply snapping a photo is insufficient.
Obama supported this
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