CNN Exposes Horrific Hospital Conditions in Venezuela, But Omits Direct Mention of the Main Cause

[PeteS in CA]

CNN Exposes Horrific Hospital Conditions in Venezuela, But Omits Direct Mention of the Main Cause

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/12/09/cnn-exposes-horrific-hospital-conditions-in-venezuela-but-omits-direct-mention-of-the-main-cause-n1199879

Soares’ report begins in a major hospital in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The Maduro government has praised China’s approach to the COVID pandemic, and claimed that its similar efforts have kept the virus under control. Soares’ report shines a glaring light on this lie. “COVID has unmasked Venezuela’s open wounds,” Soares reports, narrating appalling footage of a hospital that looks like something out of a zombie horror movie. Shackles hang from bars, the floors are filthy beyond words. One nurse has to provide care for an entire ward, and medical personnel have to work without masks or gloves. “The stench is unbearable.”

Soares’ valuable report provides stunning details: The power and water are only available, even in the hospitals, for an hour or two per day. And that’s the situation “day in, day out” in the capital as well as across the country.

Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. It once had abundant energy and the highest living standards in Latin America. Now it threatens doctors if they tell the truth about the devastation government policies are having throughout the country’s medical system and economy.
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CNN’s report is vital, but it omits direct mention of one of the single most important factors in Venezuela’s decline: socialism.