Posted on 12/18/2017 1:53:51 PM PST by Brilliant
Venezuela — Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death.
His father left before dawn to bring him home from the hospital morgue. He carried Kenyerber’s skeletal frame into the kitchen and handed it to a mortuary worker who makes house calls for Venezuelan families with no money for funerals.
Kenyerber’s spine and rib cage protruded as the embalming chemicals were injected. Aunts shooed away curious young cousins, mourners arrived with wildflowers from the hills, and relatives cut out a pair of cardboard wings from one of the empty white ration boxes that families increasingly depend on amid the food shortages and soaring food prices throttling the nation. They gently placed the tiny wings on top of Kenyerber’s coffin to help his soul reach heaven — a tradition when a baby dies in Venezuela.
When Kenyerber’s body was finally ready for viewing, his father, Carlos Aquino, a 37-year-old construction worker, began to weep uncontrollably. “How can this be?” he cried, hugging the coffin and speaking softly, as if to comfort his son in death. “Your papá will never see you again.”
Hunger has stalked Venezuela for years. Now, it is killing the nation’s children at an alarming rate...
Venezuela has been shuddering since its economy began to collapse in 2014. Riots and protests over the lack of affordable food, excruciating long lines for basic provisions, soldiers posted outside bakeries and angry crowds ransacking grocery stores have rattled cities, providing a telling, public display of the depths of the crisis.
But deaths from malnutrition have remained a closely guarded secret by the Venezuelan government. In a five-month investigation by The New York Times, doctors at 21 public hospitals in 17 states across the country said that their emergency rooms were being overwhelmed by children with severe malnutrition...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Socialism works. They just didn’t do it right.
Where is Hollyweird?
RUSSIA IS NOW VENUZUELA’S ONLY HOPE
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russia-oil-caracas-59893
I feel sorry for many Venezuelans. If the American liberals had their way, Obama and Hillary would have finished off this country, too, thanks to idiot liberals.
They already made things much, much worse. Along with W.
They should have a rock concert/telethon. Why so quiet, one wonders.
Obama voters
Indeed. They just aren’t pure enough.
This is the socialism that the American elite wants for all. What a bunch of a$$holes. Planned economies don’t work. Seizing businesses (”nationalizing”) doesn’t work, and is theft. Taking money from those foolish enough to produce it and not hide it, is theft.
Ideas have consequences! - Weaver
America's founding ideas of liberty led to people over government, prosperity, freedom and plenty. Sanders' ideas of socialism lead to government over people and the Venezuelan example.
I’d be willing to fund a few one-ways to Cuba.
Why is it socialist countries can’t feed their own populations?
Since when was the NY Slime concerned about humans dying of hunger? They weren’t in 1932 when Walter Duranty deliberately ignored in later coverage the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions of people. Liberals have no shame.
How come only the 17 month old in that family starved to death ? Father, Aunts, cousins all still alive.
I’d be a lot more impressed if the NYT would explain why it was a mouthpiece for a raving lunatic, instead of warning people what the evils of Chavez would eventually lead to.
Yes, once again children are starving related to Communism.
Who could have seen this coming?
The NYT couldn’t. The Washington Post couldn’t. No these two rabid dog publications still push for Leftist policy in the United States.
Leftists, Communists, Socialists, they never freakin learn! NEVER!!!
These ideologies are good for only one thing. They destroy wholesome governments and then melt down.
They’re trying to do it again here.
“Why is it socialist countries can’t feed their own populations?”
They have run out of “other people’s money!”
Why isn’t the bastard from the UN shocked about Venezuela? Because socialists stick together no matter how many Innocents die.
“I’d be a lot more impressed if the NYT would explain why it was a mouthpiece for a raving lunatic, instead of warning people what the evils of Chavez would eventually lead to.”
Because they were “assured” by “their man in Caracas,” Sean “Spicoli” Penn that all was well there.
“Obama voters”
Yep - sadly they believed the hype & the promises.
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