John Sexton at HotAir.com highlights new information about the destructive nature of Venezuela‘s socialist regime.
Democratic socialism is working in Venezuela. It’s working to make everyone miserable and hungry. The sign in the photo above reads: “Maduro is hunger.” The NY Times reports the economic decline Venezuelans are now experiencing is unsurpassed in the past 45 years outside of countries in the midst of war. …
… The Institute of International Finance estimates that by the end of the year, Venezuela’s GDP will have shrunk by 62 percent since Nicolas Maduro took power in 2013. The Times notes that the former Soviet Union saw a 30 percent decline in the mid-1990s.
The rest of the story describes people who are picking through trash to avoid starvation. No one can afford meat anymore so the butcher is selling “offal and leftovers like fat shavings and cow hooves.” But outside of the big cities, there is no government and very little law and order. Desperate people steal whatever they can and business owners are left trying to protect what little they have to keep going. …
… There you have it. Starvation, lack of medicine. Lack of law and order. And a deceitful socialist government still doing its best to lie about the causes while preventing people from finding out what is happening. This is now the top example of economic devastation (apart from war) in recent history. But on the far left, dictator Maduro is still the victim and America is still the enemy.
