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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 10:13 AM Mar 2018

UN official warns of humanitarian "catastrophe" in Venezuela

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-warns-humanitarian-catastrophe-venezuela-53696691

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David Beasley, director of the World Food Program, said the harrowing reports he heard from Venezuelan migrants makes raising awareness of the crisis an urgent priority.

"This could turn into an absolute disaster in unprecedented proportions for the Western Hemisphere," Beasley said in an interview following a two-day visit to talk with migrants in the Colombian border city of Cucuta.

"I asked, 'Why are you here?', and the answer people gave me was, 'We don't have any food.' And they said, 'Even if we had money, there's no food,'" Beasley recounted. "I don't think people around the world realize how bad the situation is and how much worse it could very well be."

As hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine batter Venezuela, rising numbers of its people are joining in an exodus that has set off alarms across Latin America. Independent groups estimate as many as 3 million to 4 million Venezuelans have abandoned their homeland in recent years, with several hundred thousand departing in 2017 alone.
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UN official warns of humanitarian "catastrophe" in Venezuela (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Mar 2018 OP
Trump response? Going to have photo op with my wall concept buildings... Moostache Mar 2018 #1
What should his response be? GatoGordo Mar 2018 #2

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
1. Trump response? Going to have photo op with my wall concept buildings...
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 10:18 AM
Mar 2018

I LOATHE that man on a cellular level...I don't even like the idea of sharing the same AIR as that piece of shit.

These people are starving and desperate and instead of working to help find solutions or aid, our "chosen" leader is off to play with his Lincoln Logs and Erector Sets.

To the future...not all of us were self-absorbed narcissists in the early 21st century, we did not ALL fiddle while the world burned...

 

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
2. What should his response be?
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 05:19 AM
Mar 2018

I too loathe the guy at a cellular level, but honestly, what could Bernie or Hillary do if they were in office?

Send in the troops? Maduro would love that. Chavez and now Maduro have been predicting that for the last 18 years. US boots on the ground would justify every abuse Chavismo has ever offered Venezuela.

Maduro won't allow in any humanitarian aid. He says Venezuela has plenty of food and medicine. Letting in aid would also give the impression that Bolivarian socialism is an epic failure, and open the door to international intervention, and Chavistas won't allow that.

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