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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 09:38 AM Apr 2020

Venezuela elderly feel 'sentenced to euthanasia' under coronavirus quarantine

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-venezuela-elderly/venezuela-elderly-feel-sentenced-to-euthanasia-under-coronavirus-quarantine-idUSKBN21O1EE
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The coronavirus outbreak has sparked concern around the world for the elderly, who are much more vulnerable to the COVID-19 respiratory disease caused by the virus. But the plight of senior citizens was already acute in Venezuela following six years of brutal economic crisis and chronic problems with power and water services.

Blanco and Rodriguez, like 3 million other Venezuelan retirees, struggle to live on state pensions of 250,000 bolivars a month - the equivalent of about $3 - which can at best buy a few pounds of chicken or several kilos of corn flour.

In a survey published in November by non-profit groups Convite and HelpAge, 77% of Venezuelans over 55 said they did not have access to enough food and one in ten said they go to bed hungry.

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The group estimates that at least 900,000 senior citizens are living by themselves following a migration exodus of nearly 5 million Venezuelans who have fled the economic crisis since 2015.
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Venezuela elderly feel 'sentenced to euthanasia' under coronavirus quarantine (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Apr 2020 OP
And this continues while the "leaders" of the patria COLGATE4 Apr 2020 #1
I've been reading some of the posts here in the LA group and dware Apr 2020 #2
None so blind as those who will not see. COLGATE4 Apr 2020 #3
Quixotic devotion to Hugo and chavismo explains the simple-mindedness Bacchus4.0 Apr 2020 #4

dware

(12,094 posts)
2. I've been reading some of the posts here in the LA group and
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 09:30 AM
Apr 2020

I'm amazed that there are still some who support and defend this criminally corrupt regime in VZ.

I just don't get it.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
3. None so blind as those who will not see.
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 11:17 AM
Apr 2020

Same phenomenon we have here with 35-40% of our voting population who think that every word that comes out of Trump's mouth(?) is holy gospel. I'm now a firm believer in the saying that 'you can't fix stupid'.

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