Let them eat Chavismo
The UN honours Venezuela for curbing hunger—which is actually getting worse
NEWS that the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had given Venezuela a diploma for its “notable and exceptional” efforts to curb hunger did not reach Joseína Rodríguez. Recently unemployed, and living with her family in a farm outhouse in the south-west of the country, she was too busy working out where her next meal was coming from.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "Let them eat Chavismo"
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