Venezuelans report big weight losses in 2017 as hunger hits

[Bacchus4.0]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-food/venezuelans-report-big-weight-losses-in-2017-as-hunger-hits-idUSKCN1G52HA

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans reported losing on average 11 kilograms (24 lbs) in body weight last year and almost 90 percent now live in poverty, according to a new university study on the impact of a devastating economic crisis and food shortages.

Over 60 percent of Venezuelans surveyed said that during the previous three months they had woken up hungry because they did not have enough money to buy food. About a quarter of the population was eating two or less meals a day, the study showed.

Last year, the three universities found that Venezuelans said they had lost an average of 8 kilograms during 2016. This time, the study’s dozen investigators surveyed 6,168 Venezuelans between the ages of 20 and 65 across the country of 30 million people.

[GatoGordo]

1. Chavismo's Brown Shirts seem to be doing OK on the Maduro diet.

Colectivos at the funeral of one of their own, sacrificed by Chavismo during the Oscar Perez murder

FWIW, these pallbearers are not uniformed officers of the FANB. (some in the background are FANB) They are Chavista militia (not Venezuela militia), and their weapons (illegal for private citizens to possess weapons in Venezuela) are gifts from Chavez/Maduro, with the understanding that they may keep them providing they (colectivos) show up en masse when called upon to defend Chavismo.

Colectivos have plenty to eat. They are paid their monthly stipend in dollars (which ordinary Venezuelans cannot access) and they are notorious for stealing from stores in broad daylight, in front of the police, with total impunity.

[COLGATE4]

2. Have you noticed how deadly silent the Chavez/Maduro

cheerleaders on DU have become? Could it be that even they have (finally) seen what an absolute disaster Chavismo has been for Venezuela?

[Bacchus4.0]

4. Oh yeah, I count two these days. Oh well, we tried to them nt

[secondwind]

3. Chavez daughters still live in the palace. They have never moved out

They throw nightly parties full of champagne and good food. These people are perverts, how can they do this to their countrymen?

[GatoGordo]

5. Maria (Chavez oldest) now lives in Spain.

She is worth over $4 billion (BILLION, not MILLION). Not a bad gig for a low level UN bureaucrat at the UN, during her fathers time as dictator.

She wouldn't be caught dead back in Venezuela. Too much crime. Notoriety. The escraches are hard enough to endure in Spain, let alone Caracas.

Besides, her digs in Spain are quite nice, thank you...