Opposition supporter holding a placard that reads “No more dictatorship” during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government in Caracas, Venezuela March 31, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Ana Quintana, Detroit News: Column: Venezuela resembles Dante’s ‘Inferno’
On Jan. 24, former major league baseball player Marcos Carvajal died of pneumonia. He was only 33. The common respiratory infection should not have killed him.
But Carvajal was in Venezuela, a country where more than three-quarters of all public hospitals lack basic medicines, and common ailments have become death sentences.
Venezuela’s health care system is supposed to be one of Hugo Chavez’s greatest legacies. But severe shortages of medicines and medical supplies have decimated public healthcare.
A recent New York Times expose of Venezuela’s mental health facilities found a system in chaos, with patients routinely going without medication, food, hygienic products and even electricity.
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WNU Editor: What struck me about this opinion post is not what the commentator said, but from where she said it. Detroit?!?!?! If someone from Detroit tells you that a place is bad .... trust me on this one .... it is bad.
Update: I agree. There are a lot of fingerprints from Cuba in Venezuela .... Cuba Is Making the Crisis in Venezuela Worse (José R. Cárdenas, Forreign Policy)
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