Hungry Venezuelans cry at the sight of food, as economic crisis deepens

[Reeve]

Colombia. The name of the country is Colombia. Columbia is in no way related to the country.

That's all.

It'd be nice if TV shows started pronouncing Medellin correctly too, instead of just using Mexican Spanish pronunciations.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Partially, they were.

On top of that, it got rid of any prospects they had to recover.

It played a negligible if not inconsequential role in the crash itself. Did it make it worse? Yes. But the seizure of assets came after the crash was already well under way. Not sure what you mean by mismanagement of assets, but it was relying heavily on oil as its biggest commodity by far long before the socialists.

[The Stormbringer]

I'm not trying to say this to be an asshole, but this is what happens to countries that don't diversify. Eventually, there's a strong chance the one big thing you're focused on will fail, crash, or no longer be in demand, and that's going to tank your economy hard.

Importing is fine, everyone does it, but you still need your own food. Maybe not enough to fill every need, but enough to help supplement and get people by during the lean times. I feel for these people, but this is something the government and businesses should've seen coming a long time.

[Rad1um]

Man this is a sadness. We're in 2016. We've landed on the moon, asteroids, and Mars. We've had technological marvels that our ancestors could never dream of. How are human beings still starving? Food should be a right, not a privilege. Im not saying you know, buy everyone a steak dinner every night. But at least corn and rice and beans. Really basic staples to help the less fortunate survive so they can work towards a better future. IDK. Maybe im just an idealist.

[Nadiru]

Wew, another piece of really nice geography, destroyed by central planning!

[The Stormbringer]

Feel sorry for these people.

Socialism is to blame for this situation.

The government needs to be hung for the suffering they are causing.

It's not socialism's fault, it's the fact that they put all their money into oil, AKA a single commodity, instead of diversifying and actually taking steps to prevent this by making more farms to depend less on importation.

[Deleted]

Completely agree.

The free market did fuck them.

Thats why ill never vote left wing socialism. It has a complete inability to protect itself from outside dangers.

Go and tell that to the worlds best countries to live in (hint, its not America).

[Deleted]

Strange that countries with the best climate tend to be the worst ones to live in...

No its becuse of the nice climate. Lets say in Northern Europe you need a effective society, becuse of things do not work
it will be mass death during winter, hence a long tradition we need a effective society at any price or we are doomed.

In a tropical paradice, who need a traditon to plan like mad, then you get several harvests each year insted of one, if the power do not work, its a inconvenient, its not that I will freeze to death, hence you do not need a effective society at any price, becuse its not disastrous.

If we take it to the extream, a space colony will be crazy about to maintain there air conditioning, becuse if it fail they will die, hence then a heat wave (or space colony variant of heat wave) hit all air conditioning can work at peak prefromence. Here on earth (especially if it's favorable climate) the air conditioning sound vired, naaa take it later....then the Heat wave hit air conditioning cant work on peak prefromence becuse of lack of maintenance and peopel get heatstroke.

[Stelio Kontos]

Hey, being Greek, I'm just gonna say what everyone has told any suffering Greek the last few years: They have absolutely no one to blame but themselves for being so corrupt and having a terrible government and they deserve no help at all. At least no *free* help.

No one owes them shit, and they can't complain about any derision thrown their way.

There, did I do it right?

[May90]

No its becuse of the nice climate. Lets say in Northern Europe you need a effective society, becuse of things do not work
it will be mass death during winter, hence a long tradition we need a effective society at any price or we are doomed.

In a tropical paradice, who need a traditon to plan like mad, then you get several harvests each year insted of one, if the power do not work, its a inconvenient, its not that I will freeze to death, hence you do not need a effective society at any price, becuse its not disastrous.

If we take it to the extream, a space colony will be crazy about to maintain there air conditioning, becuse if it fail they will die, hence then a heat wave (or space colony variant of heat wave) hit all air conditioning can work at peak prefromence. Here on earth (especially if it's favorable climate) the air conditioning sound vired, naaa take it later....then the Heat wave hit air conditioning cant work on peak prefromence becuse of lack of maintenance and peopel get heatstroke.

I've heard this theory. Indeed, it might be the reason European, Middle Eastern civilizations have developed much faster than Central-Southern American, African and Australian ones, because it is much harder to survive in the cold or a desert, than in lush forests with very warm climate - so you need to make much more effective political and economical systems for that to work, and those systems carry you forward.

But then, for example, Greek and Roman civilizations, that were at the time at the peak of civilization, developed in warm and comfortable for living regions. While civilizations in the deserts on the north-west of Africa weren't doing well. So perhaps it is not as big a factor as the theory suggests, and the correlation doesn't imply the causation.

[Deleted]

The US is struggling. Millions people are using food banks. Tens of thousands of people die each year from lack of affordable health care. Millions of people are leaving the country every year.

Capitalism doesn't work.

[Deleted]

Maybe they'll reconsider their flawed politics.

The only good communist is a.. starving communist?

[xenogear3]

US bumped the oil price really high, then dropped it to ground.
This can really "kill" lots of people.