FILE- In this Feb. 14, 2019 file photo, Dugleidi Salcedo complains to a neighbor about the high price of food as she prepares arepas for her three sons in her kitchen in the Petare slum, in Caracas, Venezuela. Hunger drove Salcedo to send her four-year-old daughter to live with an aunt when she could no longer feed her. "My boys cry," the single mother of four said. "But they resist more than her when I tell them that there's no food.
A total of 9.3 million people – roughly one-third of the population – are moderately or severely food insecure, said the World Food Program’s study, which was conducted at the invitation of the Venezuelan government. Food insecurity is defined as an individual being unable to meet basic dietary needs.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been largely reluctant in recent years to invite international organizations to provide assessments of the nation’s humanitarian ordeal, though the World Food Program said it was granted “full independence” and collected data throughout the country “without any impediment or obstruction.”
Venezuela has been in the throes of a political and humanitarian crisis that has led over 4.5 million people to flee in recent years. Maduro has managed to keep his grip on power despite a push by opposition leader Juan Guaidó to remove him from office and mounting U.S. sanctions. Noting that the survey was done in July through September, Carolina Fernández, a Venezuelan rights advocate who works with vulnerable women, said she believes the situation has deteriorated even more. While it was once possible for many families to survive off remittances sent by relatives abroad, she said, that has become more difficult as much of the economy is dollarized and prices rise.
MyMeraphetamine Coming soon to a Canada near you.
Yay socialism.
But SocialismKills
But it’s socialism! And that’s what so many dumb millennials think they want!
Don’t light a match in that room, damn!
You understand that’s cause Imperialist America has slapped sanctions on Venezuela. Too bad you’re useless at your job of journalism.
Hey BernieSanders how's that Socialism working out for Venezuela? Or are they not doing it right? You know better, right?
Democrats want this for Americans!
FeelTheBern
This is a country that has the world's largest oil reserve. They made the oil industry public and all profits would feed and provide medical care for its citizens. They have been eating rats and family pets for a year now. Socialism FeelTheBern
Masky_Jay_Hoody Trump administration goals for the poor in america....
Seems like the MSM has a shifting narrative. Orange man not so bad! Lol
Hi BernieSanders
FeelTheBern
Anyone mention the fact that this is actually the result of the policies Sanders supports? Denmark and Norway are capitalist countries with MORE market freedom than the US.
American sanctions killing more people than our bombs
Just sayin....
feelthebern
Hey lying liberal fascists, this is the country that Bernie praises and wants the US to be! Socialism and Communism work the same way, oppression and poverty for the masses and wealth and power for the elitists, like Bernie!
Ahhh...the DNC propaganda machine aka ABC is going after Bernard. Which MAN falls into lock step next? 😏
Coming soon to the USA if we vote for Bernie.
Because USA has put economic sanctions on Venezuela that's why
cchukudebelu Same case as Nigeria
And we're about elect Beavis and Buttheads high school principal Hugo McVicker. Awesome.
Were their student loans wiped out though? Lol
“That’s a good thing.” - Bernie Sanders
Who caused it?
hcast22 Democratic socialism, everyone.
FeelTheBern2020
Bernie Sanders plan for America
The Bernie Sanders diet
Feel the Bern!
Bernie would be pleased........... I can see his 3nd SOTU address ' We have no Bread'😮
KalebPrime over here eatin beans during the movie.
Coming to America.
Feel the bern
what this country ha sbeemnm made,make dialoughe ,solve this problem for the ssake of the peopel ,for teh sake of humanity ,please
Guess who's coming to America for dinner tonight. We have this problem here in the U.S fix this here first then the world.
Maduro Diet. Interesting how many bots and trolls have flooded this thread already huh?
Beans are very nutritious. Many poor American families are surviving off a diet of beans and rice. Sometimes they get lucky and can afford a few pieces of smoked neck bones to season them with. Not everyone can afford steak & lobster
BernieSanders and his goals....
financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted self-governing state, group, or individual. Economic sanctions are not necessarily imposed because of economic circumstances—they may also be imposed for a variety of political, military, and social issues.
people who say... Venezuela * something something Bernie don’t even have a clue what happened in Venezuela....
coming soon to America.
They already redistributed their wealth and feeling the bern.
Bernie and company, ask the Venezuelan people their opinion of Socialism.
BernieSanders wants this for America. KAGA2020 MAGA
Socialism at work.
Got socialism?
This is exactly what SenSanders wants for America. FeelTheBern2020
Yum. Who doesn’t like tuber and beans? WhTs a tuber anyways?
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