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Related: About this forumRise in Starving Children Puts Strain on Venezuela’s Hospitals
https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2016/06/08/crisis-in-venezuela-inside-the-countrys-struggling-hospitals/The increasing shortage of food and other basic products in Venezuela, on top of inflation, is now takingits toll on the health of the nation most notably, on its malnourished children.
Children frequently arrive to the San Felipe Central Hospital after having fainted from malnourishment, officials told the PanAm Post, and are given medicine to take three times a day,
Mothers tell physicians they dont have enough food in their homes, even after rationing.
Children under five months of age come in here with diarrhea and when the parents are asked what the child has been eating, they say mostly rice cream because they cant get milk, one hospital worker said.
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Rise in Starving Children Puts Strain on Venezuela’s Hospitals (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Jun 2016
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The response to the Venezuela crisis by supposed chavista allies has been horrendous
Bacchus4.0
Jun 2016
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JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)1. This scares me. Too much like Europe pre-WWII.
My grandparents were lucky and left in the 30's.
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)2. And yet there aren't any wars happening in Venezuela.
In fact, during the OAS meeting last week to discuss the Venezuelan situation, the Chavista representative Delcy Rodriguez had the gall to say that there was no crisis whatsoever in Venezuela. Thank God the American states are waking up to the fact that Venezuela is becoming a failed state under chavismo.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)3. The response to the Venezuela crisis by supposed chavista allies has been horrendous
Only Colombia has been waving the red flag.
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)4. Well, to be fair, most LatAm countries are waking up to it now
Here's the breakdown of the OAS vote on whether the Sec General Almagro's report on Venezuela would be discussed: only a dozen voted no and 2 abstained. It's the usual suspects who voted no, as anyone would assume, except for Arg and Brazil since now they don't have a populist leftist:
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