A nation struggling to get the lights on still:
Well that is a first! Lights in a city in #Venezuela are going crazy on and of and on repeat again. #SinLuz #SinAgua. Some people in Venezuela have now gone 210 hours without lights or either running water. pic.twitter.com/CETnHlNYAT
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis ❁ (@sotiridi) April 3, 2019
‘New York Times’ Journalist Describes An ‘Almost Unimaginable’ Crisis In Venezuela
New York Times journalist Nicholas Casey was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in March when the country was hit by a six-day blackout… “By the fourth day of the power outage, that was when you started to hear shots getting fired in the street,” Casey says. “People were beginning to loot, and the store owners were coming out to defend their stores.”
The U.N. estimates that it’s upwards of 3 million people who have left. Now remember, this is a country of 30 million people. So we’re talking about 10 percent of the population that has gone.
A few weeks with intermittent power and the country is becoming uninhabitable.
When a government tries to print its way out of trouble by giving away “free” money it seems cheap but costs the whole economy:
Need Cash? It litters the streets of Caracas…. #SocialismKills #Venezuela pic.twitter.com/MoQvLENfmE
— Southwired (@dcooper711) April 3, 2019
Rich one year, down with polio the next. Nature comes back fast:
…this crisis that’s getting worse and worse, because of lack of medicine mainly, people are coming into these countries with diseases that should be controlled in Venezuela — diseases like diphtheria, malaria, tuberculosis have made a huge comeback in Venezuela.
Health data from #Venezuela shows a crisis with severe human rights effects. UN should take lead in emergency response. https://t.co/Uu8zCK9rvl pic.twitter.com/hNpF4FOd6J
— HRWTech (@HRWTech) April 4, 2019
The ultimate Mediscare campaign:
President Maduro forced visiting Cuban doctors to use access to medicine as a way to gain votes for Maduro right before an election
They would start by going house to house to people. … The way that it was being described to me was that essentially you would start by handing people medications that they needed, especially seeing if they had chronic illnesses that they really needed medication for on a regular basis. And then after you start to get their trust, you would start to bring up Maduro. You’d start to bring up politics. You’d ask them, “Are you registered to vote?” And then actually start to make a much harder pitch, like “You need to vote for Maduro. This is where this medicine is coming from,” and ultimately at the end of this there would be a threat, which is that “If you don’t vote for Maduro, there is a possibility that you will lose your medication.
Oxygen tanks and medicines were being withheld from opposition supporters.
The curse of galloping inflation,
Can destroy and bring down a nation,
Best to trade in coins minted,
And dump the notes printed,
To buy food in a dire situation.
— Ruairi