heartbreaking. Completely unnecessary and entirely avoidable. Communism 101...and there are those still championing it. even here.

Heartbreaking and totally unnecessary. But before I get all weepy about it, many years ago I toured around the country while in college gathering up folk songs with a reel to reel tape recorder. I was in Harlan County, KY where I found a treasure trove of songs some of which became popular songs (16 Tons, etc.). The poverty there was bone-crushing. When the Clinton woman talked about shutting down coal mines, it brought me right back to Kentucky, where the mines there closed down and people starved. I'm so sorry that I don't believe in Hell, because that is where she deserves to rot. Eight more years of the Obama type government and Venezuela might be our future.

I'd like to treat those skinny escapees from a Bolshevik Bernie Utopia to an all you can eat buffet.

And yet, many Venezuelans still voted for the communist government. Even if the elections were rigged, there were still many that continue to believe in fairies and in stealing other people's earnings. Except that now there are no earnings left to steal. Just watching how's that working out for them...

No doubt Maduro will be eating like a dictator tonight gotta keep the strength up to hold the people down , like Chavez before him . He and all the other fraudulent oppressors have no conscience, they will let children starve to death and murder anyone that gets in their filthy way. Time for payback people.

Terrible, but a great representation of socialism.

Why does she have seven children?

It is of course terrible to see such massive suffering. However, it's also exceedingly gratifying to see another example of how socialism/collectivism always produces the exact opposite of what it promises.

Blanco

Seven children, both parents unemployed. I feel sorry for the kids, but the parents trapped themselves with their life choices. Their religious leaders probably encouraged them to have large families, while their political leaders made sure that they would have difficulties supporting such large families. A no-win situation.

Maduro eliminated the 100 bolivar denomination in the last week, too. New higher-denomination bills are due to start being released today

https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...

A loss for words...ah there they are...just thinking about hiltery's mate kane...seems he was a missionary there to help the "Marxist" cause...bet ya he's completely unaware of what he did in promoting what is happening to these people now.

I spend a lot of time in South America, and one would think the statists would figure out the more the statism the lower the standard of living. I am sure they would, but that is not the statist motive. Power, and only power, is the motive.

In Venezuela, I am informed they have not consumed their pets --- dogs and cats --- because there is not enough food. This country was the top of the heap in South America until Chavez and Chile was the lowest in standard of living at that time (1970s), now it is reversed.

There is nothing that the new president has offered that will change the course of this country to the same eventual outcome. Hope that it will be staved off for a time or perhaps even change direction is to ignore the fact that whether republican or democrat in any office the path has never altered from the goal of communism which is the correct definition for what this country is now, a communist democracy where the mob can vote for and expect the enforcement of rules that plunder those who work. Even if you try to save the fiat currency in use today will continue to destroy the value of all that you have while every level of government continues to demand more.