Quick facts: Venezuela's humanitarian crisis

[Bacchus4.0]

https://www.mercycorps.org/articles/venezuela-crisis-quick-facts

or several years Venezuela — once the richest country in South America — has been hurtling toward economic, social and institutional collapse, spurring a regional humanitarian crisis and mass migration.
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The UN estimates there will be 5.3 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants by the end of 2019, rivaling the scale of the Syrian refugee crisis. By 2020, there will be 8 million Venezuelan refugees, making this crisis the largest refugee crisis in the world.
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The statistics in Venezuela are startling: Nearly 90 percent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line and more than half of families are unable to meet basic food needs. But what happened to cause these issues?

[DanieRains]

1. 500 Soldiers Could Fix This Problem

I am not a warmonger.

Just married to a girl from Venezuela.

Every single one of our friends wants us to take Maduro out.

Too bad Putin scared off Trump.

[DetlefK]

2. You know what would help? Having literally any other economic system than Chavismo.

Let's look at Romania for comparison. In the 1980s, the socialist dictatorship covered up the economic collapse for as long as they could, and then it came suddenly. Eventually, the people of Romania overthrew their dictator and lynched him. The army did not support him any longer, because there was nothing left to fight over.

Nowadays, Romania is an ultracapitalist nightmare and a cesspool of corruption... but in contrast to socialism, the people are not starving.

Ultracapitalism or starvation? Choose.