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Part of the Crisis in Venezuela | |
Top to bottom, left to right: A man eating from garbage; empty shelves in a store; people lining up to enter a store | |
Date | 2008[1] – 2019[2][3] |
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Location | Venezuela |
Cause | Government policies, low oil prices and corruption[4][5][3] |
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Crisis in Venezuela |
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Shortages in Venezuela of food staples and basic necessities occurred throughout Venezuela's history.[6] Scarcity became more widespread following the enactment of price controls and other policies under the government of Hugo Chávez[7][8] and exacerbated by the policy of withholding United States dollars from importers under the government of Nicolás Maduro.[9] The severity of the shortages led to the largest refugee crisis ever recorded in the Americas.[10]
The Maduro administration denied the extent of the crisis[11] and refused to accept humanitarian aid from Amnesty International, the United Nations, and other groups while conditions worsened.[12][13] The United Nations and the Organization of American States stated that the shortages resulted in unnecessary deaths in Venezuela and urged the government to accept humanitarian aid.[14] Though The New York Times asserts that the Maduro administration and its economic irresponsibility directly caused a lack of food,[15] Maduro stated that the country had adequate access to food.[16]
During the shortages, milk, meat, coffee, rice, oil, precooked flour, butter, toilet paper, personal hygiene products, and medicines were scarce.[7][17][18] By January 2017, the shortage of medicines reached 85%, according to the Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela (Federación Farmacéutica de Venezuela).[19] Hours-long lines were common, and those who waited did not always receive service.[clarification needed] Some Venezuelans resorted to eating wild fruit and garbage.[20][21][22][23]
On 9 February 2018, a group of United Nations Special Procedures and the Special Rapporteurs on food, health, adequate housing and extreme poverty issued a joint statement on Venezuela, declaring that much of its population was starving and going without in a situation that they do not believe will end.[24] A year later in 2019, the Maduro administration relaxed the nation's strict currency exchange regulations and shortages subsided in Venezuela while the economy became unofficially dollarized.[3][25]
With the economy in freefall, Mr Maduro in 2019 relaxed some of the strict foreign currency regulations brought in by Chávez. Shortages eased as a result ...
This human outflow, ... is the largest displacement of people in Latin American history
Venezuela is the most urgent humanitarian disaster in the Western Hemisphere, producing the largest exodus of refugees in the history of the Americas
The Venezuelan government has denied food and humanitarian aid from international organizations like Amnesty International and the United Nations. The IMF forecasts Venezuela's economy will shrink 10% this year, worse than its previous estimate of 8%. It also estimates that inflation in Venezuela will catapult to 700% this year, up from an earlier guess of 480%.
With Venezuela's state-run health-care system in ruins and the country's economy collapsing, the government last year stopped supplying the pills Ms. Solorzano needed to keep her organ functioning, her family and her doctor said. ... Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's cash-strapped Socialist regime prohibits most international humanitarian donations – including contributions of lifesaving medicines – except from a few remaining allies such as Russia. The authoritarian leader and his lieutenants have denied the country is in a humanitarian crisis and they consider international aid part of a ploy by the U.S. and political rivals to besmirch the government and open the door to foreign intervention. Public health has deteriorated sharply in what used to be one of Latin America's richest nations. Venezuela's infant mortality rate was higher than in Syria in 2016, according to Health Ministry figures. Cases of diphtheria and malaria, diseases controlled by most Latin American nations, have increased amid a lack of vaccinations, the ministry said.
Venezuela has the largest known oil reserves in the world, but under the leadership of Nicolas Maduro, its hospitals lack equipment, medicines, food, anesthetics and even pens. Under Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, the country fell into an existential crisis.The government provides little money to the hospitals, but won't allow any aid into the country either. Doing so would make it clear that Maduro's autocratic government has failed. According to UNICEF, 15 percent of all children in Venezuela are undernourished. The child mortality rate in the country has risen dramatically in the past few years. The government is trying to cover up the crisis and has been keeping most of the health statistics secret for years.
The Maduro administration has been responsible for grossly mismanaging the economy and plunging the country into a deep humanitarian crisis in which many people lack food and medical care. He has also attempted to crush the opposition by jailing or exiling critics, and using lethal force against antigovernment protesters.
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