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Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation
New York Times ^ | JUNE 19, 2016 | NICHOLAS CASEY

Posted on 06/19/2016 5:15:18 PM PDT by grundle

A staggering 87 percent of Venezuelans say they do not have money to buy enough food, the most recent assessment of living standards by Simón Bolívar University found.

About 72 percent of monthly wages are being spent just to buy food, according to the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis, a research group associated with the Venezuelan Teachers Federation.

In April, it found that a family would need the equivalent of 16 minimum-wage salaries to properly feed itself.

Ask people in this city when the last time they ate a meal, and many will respond that it was not today.

Among them are Leidy Cordova, 37, and her five children — Abran, Deliannys, Eliannys, Milianny and Javier Luis — ages 1 to 11. On Thursday evening, the entire family had not eaten since lunchtime the day before, when Ms. Cordova made a soup by boiling chicken skin and fat that she had found for a cheap price at the butcher.

“My kids tell me they’re hungry,” Ms. Cordova said as her family looked on. “And all I can say to them is to grin and bear it.”

Other families have to choose who eats. Lucila Fonseca, 69, has lymphatic cancer, and her 45-year-old daughter, Vanessa Furtado, has a brain tumor. Despite also being ill, Ms. Furtado gives up the little food she has on many days so her mother does not skip meals.

“I used to be very fat, but no longer,” the daughter said. “We are dying as we live.”

Her mother added, “We are now living on Maduro’s diet: no food, no nothing.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: communism; cuba; hugochavez; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; socialism; venezuela
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I recommend watching the slideshow at the link.
1 posted on 06/19/2016 5:15:18 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

“Hunger Games”...for real.


2 posted on 06/19/2016 5:17:09 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: grundle

Bernie Sanders — the socialist — isn’t taking questions on the subject of this large-scale socialist experiment in our hemisphere.


3 posted on 06/19/2016 5:17:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: grundle

According to liberals, all you need to do is give either money or food away for this issue to disappear.

This is obviously a lie against the fine country of Venezuela.

Sadly, I know a lady, there, with whom I went to school.


4 posted on 06/19/2016 5:17:51 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: grundle

This is what the Democrat Party wants to turn America in to.


6 posted on 06/19/2016 5:18:15 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: grundle

Economics are economics, Politicians are politicians. If you believe that politicians can deliver more than economics can deliver, then you are a few. As your grandmother, who never went to college, once told you. There is no such thing as a free lunch.


7 posted on 06/19/2016 5:19:22 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: grundle

[[A staggering 87 percent of Venezuelans say they do not have money to buy enough food, the most recent assessment of living standards by Simón Bolívar University found. ]]

Venezuela has fertile soil and perfect climate to grow tons of food Venezuelans are starving it is because they remain in the city waiting to be fed by their government instead of walking out to the country and starting to grow their own food.

Almost all of them live in ONE city and they sit there and starve .


8 posted on 06/19/2016 5:19:44 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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fool, not few. I don’t know where that came from...


9 posted on 06/19/2016 5:20:43 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: newfreep

He who allows communism digs his own grave. ADIOS!!


10 posted on 06/19/2016 5:21:15 PM PDT by WENDLE (Remove Ryan as Chairman on the convention!!! We have the votes!!)
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To: grundle

As I looked at those slides, I could almost detect the smell of brimstone.


11 posted on 06/19/2016 5:21:38 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: grundle

Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves on Earth. Ain’t Socialism Grand!


12 posted on 06/19/2016 5:22:01 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Lera

I’ve been to Caracas MANY YEARS ago, and the POOR live in the hills and mountains above the city in CARDBOARD BOXES!!! I am NOT kidding.....and when it RAINED HARD, the “houses” would SLIDE DOWN the HILLTOPS!!!!!! And ALL these people VOTED for CHAVEZ!!!!!


13 posted on 06/19/2016 5:27:50 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lera

You can’t do that.

The socialists in power seized all the farms and gave the land “to the people” - actually lefty cronies.

If you touched or started to farm that land you would be shot by solider or the police.


14 posted on 06/19/2016 5:29:03 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Ann Archy
And ALL these people VOTED for CHAVEZ!!!!!

Well, the vote counters said they voted for Chavez and Jimmah Carter was there is insure the votes were counted properly.

15 posted on 06/19/2016 5:32:11 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: grundle

Leftist socialist policy...it always ends in a mountain of skulls. Venezuela is just at the beginning off this journey.


16 posted on 06/19/2016 5:32:22 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Oil is great, but you can’t eat it! Something I think we need to remind the muzzies of every once in awhile.

CC


17 posted on 06/19/2016 5:34:14 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: WENDLE

If you support socialism I have to laugh when I see you at the end of a bread line with just a penny


18 posted on 06/19/2016 5:42:09 PM PDT by George Washington Axe
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To: grundle

Wait a minute. I thought all Venezuelans have a constitutional right to free food and healthcare?

It is a human right. So why are they starving?

/sarc


19 posted on 06/19/2016 5:42:22 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Celtic Conservative

You could trade it for something to eat if their extraction industry worked. Which it doesn’t, because socialism is premised on absolute power, which brings with it total corruption and incompetence.


20 posted on 06/19/2016 5:42:40 PM PDT by maro (what did the President know and when did he know it?)
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