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What Socialism Has Done to Venezuela: Over 15 Percent Are Eating Trash to Survive

Jessilyn Justice : Sep 21, 2016  Charisma News

"I read the messages telling me they had to go to five different markets that day to find bread. Even basic staples like Harina P.A.N. are missing from the shelves or skyrocketing in price. I've heard them break down crying because they lack basic needs like toilet paper."

airlift(Venezuela)—[Charisma News] Many Venezuelans have opted to leave the country rather than scrounge around for food, journalist Andrea Gonzalez Larios says. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano/via Breitbart)

"The situation is terrible right now in Venezuela," Gonzalez tells Charisma News. "It's very sad that people are looking for food in garbage." 
 
What's more, 53.9 percent of Venezuelan respondents said they had gone to bed hungry, 48 percent say they have been forced to take time off work to scrounge for food, Breitbart reports.
 
"In Venezuela, there is a dictatorial regime where there is no liberty and human rights are violated, where people who do not belong to the group of the (President Nicolás) Maduro regime are put in jail and tortured, as in the case of Leopoldo Lopez. The Venezuelan opposition leader was tortured like the other prisoners of conscience by Maduro's criminal regime," Gonzalez says. "On the other side is the humanitarian crisis due to lack of food and (lack of) medicines. There are children with cancer because of the lack of medicines, and many have also died from lack of food. These children and adults die from malnutrition."
 
The Venezuelan hunger crisis has been on the rise since Maduro implemented a socialist rations system two years ago. Earlier this year, he put armed guards in charge of the food supply system. 
 
"This is now a completely militarized government"...
 
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