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'It's a pain you will never overcome': crisis in Venezuela as babies die of malnutrition
Clavel Rangel

Her coffin was little larger than a shoe box. Her life had lasted three short months.

“She was a calm little thing,” the girl’s grandmother, Yamilet Zerpa, remembered as mourners filed into her sitting room to say their last goodbyes.

On a table before them lay a small white casket lined with sky blue cloth. Inside was Yaretzi López Pinto: born 14 October 2019, declared dead on Thursday 16 January this year.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/12/venezuela-crisis-babies-die-malnutrition-depression-deprivation-infant-mortality

This public health emergency is going on all the time down there,  people look for medicine over twitter.... it's amazing, particular subscriptions. 

https://twitter.com/AnaMaDiLeo  One is bound to see it at her twitter.   And good, some are trying to help out the animals too.  Kind woman.

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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.  Socialism has failed again and again and again.  Yet a majority of the people of Venezuela insanely thought it would be a good idea.  And here in the US, we have a sizeable portion of voters who wish to implement it here.
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