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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 03:01 PM Apr 2016

Deputy Borges: Food shortage in Venezuela is government's fault

http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/160225/deputy-borges-food-shortage-in-venezuela-is-governments-fault

During the ordinary meeting of the National Assembly (AN) on Thursday, opposition lawmaker Julio Borges said that the government responses over the demonstrations ignited by the current economic crisis in Venezuela "are outrageous, for the Executive claims everything (the crisis) is due to the economic war."

In this regard, Borges addressed the Venezuelan people to make them know the government decides who grows food and where. &quot

The government) owns most of (food) warehouses, silos, and cultivable lands (some 54 million hectares), yet they are not producing."

"The government does not produce food but imports it. That is the economic war. Your failure has brought about the economic war. The Executive Office controls everything, yet Venezuela lacks food, for the (political) model failed. That is the truth."

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Deputy Borges: Food shortage in Venezuela is government's fault (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Apr 2016 OP

Prepare for the worst: Venezuela is heading toward complete disaster Bacchus4.0 Apr 2016 #1

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1. Prepare for the worst: Venezuela is heading toward complete disaster

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Wed Apr 20, 2016, 03:10 PM

Apr 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inflation-poverty-food-shortages-venezuela-heads-toward-disaster/2016/02/11/10aad5b4-d035-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

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Venezuela already suffers from the world’s highest inflation rate — expected to rise from 275 percent to 720 percent this year — one of its higher murder rates and pervasive shortages of consumer goods, ranging from car parts to toilet paper. Power outages and the lack of raw materials are forcing surviving factories and shops to close or limit opening hours. According to a local survey cited by the Economist, the poverty rate is 76 percent, compared with 55 percent when Hugo Chávez, the late founder of the regime, took power in 1999.

Worst of all, the country is running desperately short of food and medicine. Venezuelans spend much of their time waiting in lines outside stores, but increasingly the shelves are bare. The head of the nation’s pharmaceutical association recently appealed to the World Health Organization for aid, saying that distribution of 70 percent of basic medicines was disrupted. The chairman of the largest domestic food producer has said that if the government does not quickly seek aid to import food, it “will cause grave harm to ordinary Venezuelans.”
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There was no magical appearance of food immediately after the election as posted by a disingenuous chavista. Shortages continue to worsen. The national government has done nothing other than encourage people to plant their own food.

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