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[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

While it is fair to argue that someone does not like Maduro or agree with how the Maduro government operates, the assertion that Venezuela is suffering a humanitarian crisis that can only be solved if US aid gets in is dis-information.

Correcting The False Narrative On Venezuela & Humanitarian Aid:

The U.S. government, corporate media, and NGOs interested in regime change repeatedly claim there is a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. This is not new; this narrative has been pushed since at least 2016.

However, the economic situation in Venezuela does not reach the scope of a humanitarian crisis

According to a 2019 UN Food and Agriculture Organization Report, the percentage of undernourished people in Venezuela is 11.7%. For the sake of comparison, the average undernourishment is 23.2% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 31.4% in Eastern Africa, 14.8% in Southern Asia, 14.5% in Central Asia and 16.5% in the Caribbean.

In 1999, food security was worse in Venezuela than it is now - Why was there no push to bring aid to Venezuelans in the 1990s, when things were clearly worse?

A humanitarian crisis can be used as an excuse to intervene militarily. This has been the explicit posture of the U.S. since at least 2015, when then head of U.S. Southern Command, General John Kelly (later White House Chief of Staff when President Trump first threatened Venezuela with military force), warned of U.S. intervention regarding Venezuela’s “humanitarian crisis… we could react to that only if we were asked to do it.”

CLAPs – Local Committees for Supply and Production This program involves grassroots-organized communities who produce or receive food and then distribute it regularly and directly to 6 million families at zero to low cost. For a sense of scale, keep in mind that Venezuela is a country of 30 million people.

The United States is offering $20 million in aid – 60 tons of food. To compare, in 2017 the CLAP program distributed 42,000 tons of food per month. It has only grown since then.

The Maduro government has been holding talks with the ICRC, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization to receive medical supplies and finance agricultural projects

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree there's more groups other than the US that can solve it, this is obviously a "foot-in-the-door" type of situation where they're hoping the bring the new coup in to the fold of US-approved politics, and drag the Venezuelan public along.

If the US govt really cared about humanitarian crises, they'd call in the Army Corps of Engineers and fix Detroit's public water system that is broken and full of lead. But of course it's not about helping people, it's about getting political points so they can push their profitable policies over the largest number of people in the world.