New York Times: Children Are Dying From Hunger In Venezuela

Sisters and cousins of Kelly Hernández holding her up at the wake for her 3-month-old son, Kleiver, in August.

New York Times: As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying From Hunger

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. But in the last three years its economy has collapsed.

For five months, The New York Times tracked 21 public hospitals in Venezuela. Doctors are seeing record numbers of children with severe malnutrition. Hundreds have died.

SAN CASIMIRO, 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.

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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction .... it is going to get worse in Venezuela.