Warding off hunger, Venezuelans find meals in garbage bins

[Mosby]

CARACAS (Reuters) - Tony, a 36-year old security guard, rummages through the garbage bins of a wealthy district in Caracas on his days off work, scavenging for food as Venezuela’s economic meltdown has left even the employed struggling to find enough to eat.

“I smell it and if it smells good, then I take it home,” said Tony, who declined to disclose his last name because he does not want his wife and four children to know how he has been putting food on their table for more than a year.

He said he typically finds scraps of meat, cheese and pieces of vegetables on his garbage runs. “I wash it with vinegar, a lot of water, and I add onion and sauce.

Scenes of Venezuelans picking through garbage in a search for something to eat has for years been a symbol of the nation’s economic meltdown, which has been marked by widespread shortages of food and medicine as well as hyperinflation.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-trash/warding-off-hunger-venezuelans-find-meals-in-garbage-bins-idUSKCN1QI503

[Voltaire2]

1. Like in every major us city?

Maybe we need an intervention too.

[COLGATE4]

2. Are you seriously attempting to compare the situation in

Venezuela with that of major US cities?

[Voltaire2]

8. No, we don't have a world power deliberately

crushing our economy. The situation is not comparable. We do however have our citizens feeding themselves from garbage every day in every city.

[COLGATE4]

10. I'm afraid you are very misinformed regarding the

current situation in Venezuela. There is no "world power crushing their economy". The economic chaos is the result of lack of intelligent use of natural resources coupled with a kleptocracy that has few equals in the world today. Their problems are self-created without the help of any outside powers.

[Mosby]

3. So you're against giving food to Venezuelans so they don't starve?

Wow.

[Voltaire2]

7. I'm against a long campaign to once again

destabilize and destroy a Latin America government.

We’ve learned fuck all since Vietnam.

[Bayard]

4. This is why they need more sanctions

Sanctions don't hurt the people at the top.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Or Maduro could just feed his people

if nothing else, he could let in the relief aid that's wasting away across the border...

[malaise]

6. How lovely are those US anctions for big oil companies

to loot and steal.
Ah well.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

9. Eating Out Of Garbage Cans Is "Trickle Down" For Hunger

See, under "Trickle Down" for hunger, you give all the food to fat people, and whatever they can't eat, they throw in the garbage, where it's waiting for the poor to get their greedy, unworthy hands on it. It works for EVERYTHING!!!