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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela without food security. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela without food security. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-hunger-stalks-presidential-election-2024-07-09/


1910 Venezuela

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, professor at the U.S. Army War College.

0:40.0

He's in Europe and we're discussing Mercosur, which is a trade

0:43.7

organization that has personalities. And we've spoken of two of the more

0:48.6

outspoken personalities, Aviar Malay of Argentina and Lula de Silva of Brazil.

0:55.0

Now we go to a personality that is villainous.

1:00.0

This is Maricibo Venezuela Reuters.

1:04.0

Carolina Leal used to support Socialist Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro

1:10.0

and before that its predecessor Hugo Chavez writes Reuters.

1:14.0

But now, Carolina, founder of the Feeding a Dream charity,

1:19.0

spends her days feeding hungry and sometimes malnourished children in Maricibo in Venezuela's

1:25.5

oil-rich state of Zulia.

1:28.3

I used to defend the revolution, she said, but I got tired of seeing people die of hunger.

1:34.1

Professor, what's going on?

1:35.8

Food security in Venezuela.

1:37.3

I don't remember reading this story before.

1:39.8

Is this longstanding before Chavez and Maduro or is this something created out of the

1:46.8

bad governance in Caracas? Yeah. We it is really a legacy of what's happened with the collapse of the Venezuelan economy, first under

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