Venezuela: Patients dying as crisis hits hospitals

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/venezuela-hospitalseconomic-crisis-160530151128000.html

"Most of the time patients die because their families are out of the hospital looking for the treatments and they don't come at a time we can use the treatment," he told Al Jazeera.

"When they bring the treatment, the patient's already dying."

But, even buying the necessary medicine and equipment in time is not always enough to save a patient's life in Venezuela.


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"If the government decides to lift price controls and end the exchange rate control, the situation can get dramatically better very, very quickly," Gregory Wilpert, the author of Changing Venezuela By Taking Power, said. "Because in that case there will be no more incentive to smuggle products outside of the country or sell them on the black market."

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and Wilpert is a chavista.

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1. Maduro is incapable of putting the welfare of his country

above his own half-assed ideological ideas. He doesn't know what to do and hasn't got the balls to be a real leader and take steps necessary to mitigate the huge calamity that is Venezuela today. Instead he'll keep issuing decrees and doing the same things that brought about this catastrophe as more and more innocent Venezuelans die. I think he's practically guaranteeing a golpe de estado, which may be, in his warped thinking just what he wants.

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2. I assume it will be an auto coup but

What comes after that? He has no friends.