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GatoGordo

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4. Delcy says, "There is no humanitarian crisis!"
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 02:29 PM
Feb 2018
Delcy Rodriguez: No humanitarian crisis in Venezuela
The president of the new Constituent Assembly on allegations of abuse of power and Venezuela's economic crisis.
09 Sep 2017 08:31 GMT



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Al Jazeera: Let's talk more about the dire economic situation in this country. You said the other day that there is no hunger in Venezuela. But yet, I've seen people, and I'm sure so have you, in your neighbourhood, picking through the rubbish. Some of the statistics, according to official data: more than 60 percent of Venezuelans are suffering from anaemia, infant mortality is at 30 percent, maternal mortality is 60 percent, cases of malaria are up 76 percent, a dire shortage of medicines, I could go on and on. Is that the fault of the United States?

Rodriguez: That's an important question. I have denied and continue denying that Venezuela has a humanitarian crisis. Because under international law by definition, it can facilitate and justify foreign interventions of international coalitions....

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2017/09/delcy-rodriguez-humanitarian-crisis-venezuela-170907060655166.html

Summary: There is "no humanitarian crisis", because a humanitarian crisis means having UN/EU/US relief workers distributing food and medicine, and that would undermine Chavismo... proving to all that we have lost control. However, if these people want to donate food and medicine clandestinely to Chavismo operatives, then Maduro et alli would be happy to take their skim, sell it to the bachaqueros, and offer the remainder to proven (Carnet de la Patria) Chavista voters.

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