The socialist government in Venezuela appears inadvertently to have found a solution to the ever-increasing weight of the wheelbarrows of money needed to buy basic goods there: offset it with the decreasing weight of Venezuelans. The 2016 Living Conditions Survey (abbreviated to Encovi in Spanish) found that 74 percent of Venezuelans lost at least 19 pounds in the last year.
This “socialist diet” is no collectivist success story. While perhaps a good number of Americans could stand to lose that much, the fact is that most Venezuelans cannot reach the recommended 2,000 calories per day. According to the study, 10 percent of children stopped attending classes because they do not have anything to eat at home or on campus, while 30 percent did not attend because of problems with the supply of water.
Starvation in socialist and communist regimes is nothing new. For example, there is evidence that during Mao’s reign of terror, several million Chinese starved to death — something the government was fully aware was happening and to which Mao himself dismissively responded, “When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”
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The ‘Socialist Diet’: 74 Percent of Venezuelans Lose At Least 19 Pounds in Past Year https://t.co/39n3W43NNm via @J_Cal_Davenport.
— The Resurgent (@resurgent) February 22, 2017
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