August 30, 2017

12 year old girls must prostitute themselves to eat in Venezuela

Hunger eats away at Venezuela’s soul as its people struggle to survive
The Maduro regime denies its once oil-rich country is in crisis. But on the streets the desperation cannot be hidden

The Observer
Emma Graham-Harrison in Caracas
Saturday 26 August 2017 19.05 EDT

"Hunger is gnawing at Venezuela, where a government that claims to rule for the poorest has left most of its 31 million people short of food, many desperately so. As night falls over Caracas, and most of the city’s residents lock their doors against its ever more violent streets, Adriana Velásquez gets ready for work, heading out into an uncertain darkness as she has done since hunger forced her into the only job she could find at 14.

She was introduced to her brothel madam by a friend more than two years ago after her mother, a single parent, was fired and the two ran out of food. “It was really hard, but we were going to bed without eating,” said the teenager, whose name has been changed to protect her.

Since then Venezuela’s crisis has deepened, the number of women working at the brothel has doubled, and their ages have dropped. “I was the youngest when I started. Now there are girls who are 12 or 13. Almost all of us are there because of the crisis, because of hunger.”

She earns 400,000 bolivares a month, around four times the minimum wage, but at a time of hyperinflation that is now worth about $30, barely enough to feed herself, her mother and a new baby brother. She has signed up to evening classes that run before her nightly shift, and hopes to one day escape from a job where “everything is ugly”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/26/nicolas-maduro-donald-trump-venezuela-hunger

But Maduro says hunger doesn't exist... it's propaganda spread by the Imperialists.
Delcy says there is no hunger in Venezuela. Only lack of willpower.

August 29, 2017

Her crime? Giving food, medicine, shoes and clothing to political prisoners in Venezuela

Accused of treason and instigating rebellion, she waits in prison, 4 months later, waiting for her preliminary hearing!

(Follow link, right click on text to read in English.)

http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/presos-politicos/pensar-distinto-carta-mama-lis-desde-helicoide_200811

August 29, 2017

54% of children in Venezuela are malnourished. Diabetes up 95% and hypertension up 92%

08/28/2017
THE STIMULUS @elestimulo

Caritas International is concerned about the deterioration of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the strong impact it has on thousands of men, women and children and their survival capacity.

Suzanna Tkalec, humanitarian director for Caritas Internationalis, said Venezuela is facing an increasingly worse crisis with growing poverty, shortages of medicines and food, and alarming rates of child malnutrition.

The escalation of violence and poverty has forced thousands of Venezuelans to cross the border daily and flee to the neighboring country of Colombia, where they also live in terrible conditions.

"Most people do not have access to adequate food," said Tkalec, who visited Venezuela and Colombia in July to assess the situation.

"To buy the basic monthly basket one needs 12 base salaries. There is food in the shops, but prices are unaffordable for the vast majority. It is common to see people on the streets of Caracas rummaging in the trash to find something to eat. "

Tkalec says that Venezuela is barely producing 30% of the food it requires and rampant inflation is triggering prices to exorbitant levels, making it even harder for people to buy food for their families.

Caritas says that child malnutrition in parts of Venezuela has already reached crisis levels. With economies plummeting, shortages of food and medicines and rising prices, more than half of children under the age of five in areas monitored by Caritas are suffering some degree of malnutrition.

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http://elestimulo.com/blog/caritas-54-de-los-ninos-en-venezuela-tienen-deficiencias-nutricionales/

Must be those 4 day old financial sanctions on PDVSA debt that is causing all this malnutrition. According to Delcy Rodriguez (the head of the Chavista ANC), the USA is to blame for all of Venezuela's troubles.

August 28, 2017

Venezuela blames 4 day old sanctions.... for 10 year old shortages!

Delcy Rodriguez culpa a las sanciones de EEUU de la escasez de medicamentos y alimentos
Delcy Rodriguez blames U.S. sanctions on food shortages and medicines

La presidenta de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente (ANC) de Venezuela, la chavista Delcy Rodriguez, dijo que su pais no tiene como pagar alimentos y medicamentos que se encuentran en embarcaciones en las costas, tras el decreto que firmo el viernes el presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump.
The President of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) of Venezuela, the Chavista Delcy Rodríguez, said that her country does not have (the ability) to pay for food and drugs that are found in (ships) on the coasts, following the decree signed on Friday by U.S. President Donald Trump.

http://elestimulo.com/blog/delcy-rodriguez-culpa-a-las-sanciones-de-eeuu-de-la-escasez-de-medicamentos-y-alimentos/

Curious thing... these food carrying ships (very few) often turn around and leave VZ waters when nobody ponies up the cash (and cash only!) for these imports. This has been going on for YEARS... but the Chavistas won't let a good crisis get in the way of the facts. As far as her country not having the cash to feed Venezuela? They seem to have money to pay back the vultures at Goldman Sachs?!?!

Perhaps the Chavistas can get a loan from Cuba... or better yet, Chavez' daughter, Maria. Worth an estimated $4.2 billion dollars. Not a bad income for a low level diplomat at the UN! Its good to be the daughter of the King!

August 24, 2017

End of the line for free speech in Venezuela

Yell at a PSUV party apparatchik? 25 years in prison!
Don't give the Chavistas the amount of time they desire on YOUR TV or radio program? You lose your license to operate.
Social media? Soon to be blocked.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Maduro's Law on Peaceful Coexistence and Against Intolerance

(link below, in Spanish)

https://laradiodelsur.com.ve/2017/08/22/ley-de-convivencia-pacifica-y-contra-la-intolerancia-regulara-campanas-de-odio-promovidos-en-medios-digitales/

Radio del Sur is the party mouthpiece. (Please note prominent displays of El Finado)

August 24, 2017

Dinner in Venezuela

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Naturally, not everyone eats garbage in Venezuela. Some people wait in line to get their kilo of "subsidized" bread!

August 3, 2017

Jorge Martin (In Defense of Marxism) has the answers to Venezuelas problems!

Venezuela after the Constituent Assembly elections, conciliation or revolution?
Jorge Martin 02 August 2017

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"The Constituent Assembly would only make sense if it was to be used in order to take decisive action to solve the current crisis, which has its roots in the deep economic recession. Only with a clear revolutionary programme is it possible to go forward. Left wing Constituent Assembly members should propose the following measures:

For the Constituent Assembly to assume all powers
For the state monopoly of foreign trade
Repudiation of the foreign debt so that the money can be use to import food and other essential products
Expropriate POLAR and the whole of the food production and distribution chain under the democratic control of workers and peasants
For an immediate freeze of prices and general increase of wages
Expropriation of private banks and multinationals
For a democratic plan of production to satisfy the needs of the working people
The arrest of those responsible for the counter-revolutionary violence, opposition politicians and their financiers in the capitalist class to be tried by revolutionary tribunals
The arrest of all officials involved in corruption and the confiscation of ill gotten assets
The introduction of workers’ control in all state owned companies and institutions to fight bureaucratism"

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What could possibly go wrong by disregarding everyone civil rights?

http://www.marxist.com/venezuela-after-the-constituent-assembly-elections-conciliation-or-revolution.htm

August 3, 2017

Venezuela's Bolivar Currency Worth Less Than 'World of Warcraft' Cash

Venezuela's Bolivar Currency Worth Less Than 'World of Warcraft' Cash
BY ERIC CHIU 08/01/17 AT 3:36 PM

"Venezuela has been dealing with a series of major political and financial problems lately, but in recent months, major inflation has been an additional and growing concern for residents. On Twitter, Venezuelan user @KalebPrime pointed out how bad inflation has gotten for the bolivar, the country’s currency:

https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/885997066140475395

Since then, the situation for the bolivar has gotten more severe. According to Venezuelan financial tracking site DolarToday, the current black market exchange rate sits at 12,197 bolivar per $1 U.S.D. By comparison, the rates for a token in World of Warcraft have gotten relatively more affordable. Via PlayerAuctions, third-party auctions for in-game tokens have an average rate of around 6,000 to 6,500 gold per $1 U.S.D.

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http://www.ibtimes.com/venezuelas-bolivar-currency-worth-less-world-warcraft-cash-2573128

August 1, 2017

Another busy morning at Maiquetia (Simon Bolivar International), Caracas

It appears after this week, Caribbean Airlines, Copa and Tap will be the only flights going into Venezuela.

American, Iberia, Air France and Air Europa are ready to throw in the towel. Unsafe for their flight crews, luggage keeps disappearing, and they can't get reimbursed in "real money". And as is per usual, it is inexpensive to fly in... but 5X more expensive to fly out.

If you can fly out.