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Hunger eats away at Venezuela’s soul as its people struggle to survive
Hunger is gnawing at Venezuela, where a government that claims to rule for the poorest has left most of its 31 million people short of food, many desperately so. As night falls over Caracas, and most of the city’s residents lock their doors against its ever more violent streets, Adriana Velásquez gets ready for work, heading out into an uncertain darkness as she has done since hunger forced her into the only job she could find at 14.
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This is what happens to a country with a society that is massively polarized, and with an extremely biased wealth distribution. First they elect populist autocrats, then the country slowly goes down the drain for a while (especially if they have lots of resources) then it collapses and becomes what you read in this article.
I'll let you decide in what step of the process the US is now. But I'll add that the longer it goes, the chances of stopping it go down fast.
I agree. I just wonder how long we have before the shit hits the fan? Five years? Ten?