{"id":17759,"date":"2016-02-13T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17759"},"modified":"2016-02-13T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T20:40:53","slug":"in-venezuela-savage-suffering-takes-hold-amid-frightening-food-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17759","title":{"rendered":"In Venezuela, “Savage Suffering” Takes Hold Amid Frightening “Food Emergency”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Venezuela, “Savage Suffering” Takes Hold Amid Frightening “Food Emergency”<\/a><\/h3>\n
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been working on some \u201cmeasures.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cNow that the economic emergency decree has validity,\u00a0in the next few days I will activate a series of measures I had been working on<\/strong>,\u201d he said Thursday, in a televised statement meant to address a \u201cfood emergency\u201d declared by Congress.<\/p>\n

The \u201cvalidity\u201d Maduro references comes from a high court ruling that gives the President expanded powers to tackle a deepening economic crisis that\u2019s left hospitals without medicine and grocery stores bereft of food.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe controversial move by the Supreme Court, which critics say is packed with supporters of Mr Maduro\u2019s socialist government, potentially sets the scene for a bitter institutional crisis amid claims that the national assembly is being undermined,\u201d\u00a0FT notes<\/a>, underscoring the extent to which opposition lawmakers – who in December won 99 of 167 seats that were up for grabs in what amounted to the\u00a0worst defeat in history<\/a>\u00a0for Hugo Chavez\u2019s leftist movement – feel as though last year\u2019s election victory may have been a ruse designed to lend legitimacy to a system that is, and likely always will be, deeply undemocratic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tyranny, which has been very successful in disguising as a democracy, and has even allowed itself to lose an election,\u201d Mois\u00e9s Na\u00edm, a former Venezuelan minister and fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the Supreme Court decision, Maduro doesn\u2019t need the assembly\u2019s permission to intervene further in business, to allocate funds for imports, and to introduce new capital controls<\/strong>. The opposition is furious and says it will speed up efforts to usurp Maduro once and for all. “In the next few days we will have to present a concrete proposal for the departure of that national disgrace that is the government,” opposition leader Henry Ramos told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n

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In Venezuela, “Savage Suffering” Takes Hold Amid Frightening “Food Emergency” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been working on some \u201cmeasures.\u201d \u201cNow that the economic emergency decree has validity,\u00a0in the next few days I will activate a series of measures I had been working on,\u201d he said Thursday, in a televised statement meant to address a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[1838,1928,4333,200,12379,7570,2422,669,851,4318],"class_list":["post-17759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-barclays","tag-budget-deficit","tag-crude","tag-default","tag-food-emergency","tag-ford","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-reality","tag-venezuela","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17760,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759\/revisions\/17760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}