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Don't think of it as starvation, think of it as a new modality of nutrition.

Crespo said he’d been in touch with several union members in Caracas and that most said they’d passed the inspection by simply opening their pantries. “The bakeries are showing the authorities that they have no bread inventory,” he said. “The government has to see the reality.”

Here's the reality:

Venezuela should not have to import wheat. It's one of the richest agricultural countries on the continent. "Big agriculture" was accused of oppressing the people by making a profit, resulting in government expropriation of the means of production in the name of the people. It was mandated to run at a loss so the prices could be kept low. That isn't sustainable. If production cannot sustain itself, it ceases no matter who's doing it, and so it has. Imports to make up for it involve an outflow of cash, and are unsustainable for exactly the same reason. That cash has now run out.

This isn't difficult. A schoolchild could understand all of that. Apparently an ideologue cannot even when his nose is rubbed in it. And the consequences are seen in the pinched faces of starvation.

It’s so sad what these leftists or statists or whatever they call themselves these days, the damage they end up doing to their fellow citizens.

This type of system always fails but you can never convince them of this as the excuses fly, like the right people weren’t in charge or something crazy like that.

It’s almost like human madcow disease as they’ll go to their graves believing this system can be good and successful for humankind when in reality, it never will.

CGato

"A schoolchild could understand all of that."

That is wherein the problem lies. A 5 year old can understand the self-benefit of a lemonade stand. Socialists see such a stand as a benefit for all, even though the all didn't mix the lemonade, write the sign, set up the booth, and sit there for hours on the curb.

To repeat what I've always said about socialists/communists, they just can't look beyond their bleeding hearts to realize what actually works in economics and increases the benefit of all. They can't grasp the idea of the kid earning money and spending his profits on candy, ice cream, bicycle products, paper airplanes, etc., which are made from different enterprises and provide jobs and taxes. I know, because I had a paper route in my early teens and bought my own 10speed Schwin and surfboard from my hard work.

Like I've said repeatedly, free-enterprise vs socialism is something we should be talking about on a daily basis. The snowflakes in college don't get it because they are indoctrinated by their teachers. It's time we discuss these ideologies in plain terms.