Photo: A cup of coffee in Venezuela now costs one million bolivars. (ABC News: Niall Lenihan)
Zoe Daniel and Niall Lenihan, ABC News Online: Venezuelans are slowly starving to death as Maduro and Guaido battle for power
Seven-year-old Samil is eating a mango. It may be one of his only meals today.
His face is embedded in the piece of deep orange fruit as he tears at it with his teeth.
Juice runs down his chin and bare torso, ribs poking out through his dark skin.
Like 90 per cent of Venezuelans, Samil's family is perilously short of food.
Most meals consist of rice and boiled vegetables like plantains, and here by the sea a couple of hours from the capital Caracas, a few sardines if they're lucky.
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WNU Editor: The authors of the above report do not mention the word "socialism" in their report, nor how the policies of nationalization and government confiscation completely destroyed what was once Latin America's top economies. Instead the focus on why people are staring in Venezuela is on sanctions, corruption, etc. .... in short, the usual excuses while ignoring the real reason why everything has collapsed. And as for mentioning that Guaido is in battle for power with Maduro, they do not state the obvious which is that Guaido has no power in Venezuela, nor can he dictate policy. President Maduro and his allies completely run that show, and they currently have no interest to give it up.
4 comments:
Just because Maduro and Guaido both call themselves socialists, doesn't mean that either one of them is anything of the sort. Maduro's (and Chavez's) policy was a half-hearted left-wing populism. Not a holy war against private property. Though little better in some cases.
This entire story is sad and the free world is powerless to stop it. We hate war so much we rather see this crap starve a nation as its ravaged by criminals! A quick strike would have stopped this in its track. History will not be kind to the world as it stood by.
Mike, no one wants war, but to save so many people from starvation is a cause I would subscribe to. Maybe Maduro needs to be expelled (not assassinated).. I would certainly support such a deal, even if it costs tax money. FFS there's so many children over there - and they will be the first to die - I hope Trump does something, and I hope Putin stays out. He cannot be in favour of so much misery, even if it's geopolitcally in his favour to have a "friend" in that region..
I think that taking out Maduro would immediately result in an increase in violence as criminal factions attempt to fill the void and things would only get worse, at least initially, but would likely continue without international intervention to restore order and provide massive food aid.
That food aid is something that is needed right now and if it was provided, by forceful UN intervention if necessary, perhaps it would undermine Maduro enough to force that change.
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