People who should be screaming from the rooftops that US sanctions are killing Venezuelans are telling the world "Venezuela? No (serious) problem."
So cue the Baizous: "The PanAm Post is rightist, therefore there isn't widespread hunger in Venezuela and Eugene J Weixel is an imperialist stooge."
FAO: hunger in Venezuela tripled in the last two years
Part of the population has been forced to buy decomposed meat to satisfy hunger.
In Venezuela, the country with an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, hunger and malnutrition tripled in the last two years.
According to a report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), together with the World Food Program and the Pan American Health Organization; The South American country multiplied cases of hunger. In the triennium from 2010 to 2012, hunger in the country was recorded at 3.6%. However, from 2015 to 2017 it increased to 11.7% of the population.
According to FAO, Venezuela contributes 1.3 of the total 1.5 million people with new structural problems in their daily calorie intake. The study shows that, in general terms, malnutrition conditions increased from 5 to 6% of the total of Latin American and Caribbean nations in the period from 2015 to 2018.
FAO: Hambre en Venezuela se triplicó ÷ años 2016 y 2018.
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Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y Agricultura indicó que el país experimentó el mayor aumento en las cifras de malnutrición en los últimos años. Urgente salir de Maduro.
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Haiti, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia and Grenada are the nations with the highest levels of malnutrition in relation to their total populations.
And it is that a study carried out by the Agrifood Political Front, and presented at the Third World Zero Hunger Summit, indicates that more than 90% of the Venezuelan population lacks income to acquire the food basket.
The population of that country went from eating 1,200 calories a day to an average of 500; a situation that leaves most Venezuelans in a serious state of vulnerability and on the verge of severe malnutrition.
These catastrophic figures are added by the quality of life survey ( ENCOVI ), which indicates that Venezuelans lost an average of more than 11 kilos in 2017 alone.
Almost 90% of respondents said that family income "is not enough" to eat, and 78.6% said they ate less in the last three months because they did not get food.
That Venezuelans cannot feed themselves as they should be, as established by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is due to the economic crisis framed by a hyperinflation that reaches four digits. In addition, food shortages and the deplorable purchasing power of citizens have caused malnutrition to reach 4.1 million people.
Predation and rotten meat
Faced with economic collapse, food shortages and exorbitant inflation, Venezuelans have resorted to desperate actions to satisfy their hunger. Some are able to kill animals in the streets, others resort to garbage waste and thousands of other Venezuelans have found themselves in need of buying rotten meat in the face of the crisis.
"As the situation is, people buy anything for consumption because they don't have how to pay a kilo of meat, they don't have how to pay a kilo of chicken, the money doesn't supply them," a merchant told the BBC from a market in Maracaibo state Zulia, to the west of the country.
Traders choose to sell this spoiled meat at a lower price, which becomes a kind of opportunity for those who cannot acquire it at a higher cost.
If there was no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, Venezuelans would not be in need of eating from garbage or hunting animals. Nor would they need to loot trucks; the truth is that in the country there is hunger and every day for the regime it is more difficult to hide it.
The reality of the Venezuelan people, unfortunately, is very different from how they paint it from Podemos, a Spanish socialist party that has tried to defend the dictatorship of Maduro. According to the Coalition of Organizations for the Right to Health and Life ( Codevida ), 87% of the Venezuelan population lives in poverty and 61% in extreme poverty.
Vulnerable generations
PanAm Post consulted Thaimara Pérez, a nutritionist and a graduate in nursing, who pointed out that possible cases of malnutrition, malnutrition or hidden hunger in Venezuela can cause people to undue functioning of the organism:
A person with a weight of 70 kilograms should consume an average of 1500 calories, and although everything depends on the profile of each patient, if a human being does not consume the nutrients he needs, there are not only consequences in the increase of diseases, but also You can face deconcentration, insomnia and even depression.
The specialist said that the serious consequences of poor diet begin to be noticed with the resurgence of diseases that had been eradicated, because the shortage of nutrients in the body creates a malfunction in the immune system, where it is very difficult for the body to reject and Face bacteria and parasites.
He also explained that in the medium and long term the population will be affected in their growth, since the next generations may not meet the average adult size; and they are also likely to suffer from diseases such as diabetes or hypertension.
It should be noted that the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) ranked Venezuela among the ten states with the most serious humanitarian crises in the world in 2017, along with other countries, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Burundi, Ethiopia , Palestine, Myanmar, Yemen or Nigeria. It is the only country in the Americas that appears in this ranking.
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