Conquer Club

tzor wrote:

Bernie Sanders wrote:There's many countries more fuked up than Venezuela.

Name one. I can't think of a single one that is out of toilet paper.

Venezuela: How a rich country collapsed

Venezuela is running out of food. Hospitals are overcrowded with sick children while doctors don't have enough medicine or X-ray machines. Electricity isn't guaranteed.

For several years, Maduro has had a stark choice: Pay down debts to China, Russia and foreign investors -- or buy food and medicine from abroad.
He has chosen to pay the bills. The result: Starving Venezuelans and soaring deaths in hospitals. Food shortages are so severe that the average Venezuelan living in extreme poverty lost 19 pounds last year, according to a national poll.
"There are people in Venezuela who are literally starving. This is apocalyptic stuff," says Eric Farnsworth, vice president at the Council of the Americas, a business organization. "I would call Venezuela a failing state."

Venezuela ships in food primarily from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico because the government stopped cultivating its rich farmland years ago. Nu
For the first five months of this year, food exports from those countries to Venezuela were down 61% from the same period in 2015, according to Panjiva, a research firm.
Medical shortages are worse: 756 women died during and shortly after childbirth last year, a 76% increase from 2015, according to a rare release of government records that Maduro condemned.
Nearly 11,500 infants died in 2016, a 30% rise from the prior year. Malaria cases jumped to 240,000, a 76% rise from 2015.
"Even at the hospital there is still no food for the patients," says Dr. Huniades Urbina-Medina, head of pediatrics at Hospital de Niños J.M. de los Rios, a children's hospital in Caracas. "We still don't have medicines, X-rays, CT scans -- nothing."
It's not just food and medicine. Venezuelans sometimes must ration electricity and water during droughts.

I suppose you could mention North Korea, hey isn't that another member of the Great Chinese Empire Franchise?

riskllama wrote:tzor probly used venezuela as an example simply out of his desire to "help" them & "liberate" their oil reserves whilst "helping" them...

riskllama wrote:tzor probly used venezuela as an example simply out of his desire to "help" them & "liberate" their oil reserves whilst "helping" them...

tzor wrote:

riskllama wrote:tzor probly used venezuela as an example simply out of his desire to "help" them & "liberate" their oil reserves whilst "helping" them...

No I used it as an example because they should be sitting pretty like similar countries such as Saudi Arabia.
Instead they fucked up their food production so they no longer produce any food.
They fucked up their oil production and never spent a dime on refineries so they can't even use the petroleum they have.
They weren't fucked by another nation.
They weren't fucked by natural disasters.
They fucked themselves.

All the other examples are cases of being fucked up by war or natural disasters.

Bernie Sanders wrote:...and we fuked America, by letting Trump be President