I’ll do better next time fren

Did you sleep through a couple of years, or just decide not to pay attention to the news on Venezuela when it was happening? <-- Yes, I realize that is a false dilemma. The alternative rationale, that you know about the mass starvation in Venezuela and are intentionally choosing to minimize it, would suggest that you really don't belong here and are a concern troll or shill.

I'm going to assume you are actually a supporter of Trump, and you have some basic logic skills. This means you didn't really pay attention to the tragedy of Venezuela when it was happening. It might have been on the periphery of your news, but you sure as heck didn't pay close attention.

The middle class wasn't buoyant - starvation hit them as well.

“We used to be middle class,” Silva said. “Now we have to focus on things like chicken. "Two days before we met, Silva had spent five hours waiting in line outside a bank only to find there was no cash left to offer."

"Nine out of 10 Venezuelans can no longer afford to buy enough food, according to a study by Simón Bolívar University. The I.M.F. has forecast that inflation would exceed 700 percent this year."

"Venezuela's middle class is dumpster diving for food -
Until recently, Julio Noguera worked at a bakery. Now he spends his evenings searching through the garbage for food. "I come here looking for food because if I didn't, I'd starve to death," Noguera said as he sorted through a pile of moldy potatoes. "With things like they are, no one helps anyone and no one gives away meals." Across town, unemployed people converge every dusk at a trash heap on a downtown Caracas sidewalk to pick through rotten fruit and vegetables tossed out by nearby shops. They are frequently joined by small business owners, college students and pensioners - people who consider themselves middle class even though their living standards have long ago been pulverized by triple-digit inflation, food shortages and a collapsing currency."

"As the country's economy crisis worsens, Maduro has asked that the armed forces also co-ordinate the distribution of basic necessities such as food and medicine in an effort to combat the worsening shortages. Maduro said he was acting under an economic emergency decree, which he issued on 12 July, in a bid to regulate the distribution, sale and purchase of food, medicine, personal hygiene items and home cleaning products. He has also tried to tighten a rationing system that gives Venezuelans access to staples only on certain days."

""Me and my friends all have university degrees, we were middle class once but we've all been hit."'

"Hunger is gnawing at Venezuela, where a government that claims to rule for the poorest has left most of its 31 million people short of food, many desperately so. As night falls over Caracas, and most of the city’s residents lock their doors against its ever more violent streets, Adriana Velásquez gets ready for work, heading out into an uncertain darkness as she has done since hunger forced her into the only job she could find at 14. She was introduced to her brothel madam by a friend more than two years ago after her mother, a single parent, was fired and the two ran out of food. “It was really hard, but we were going to bed without eating,” said the teenager, whose name has been changed to protect her. Since then Venezuela’s crisis has deepened, the number of women working at the brothel has doubled, and their ages have dropped. “I was the youngest when I started. Now there are girls who are 12 or 13. Almost all of us are there because of the crisis, because of hunger. She earns 400,000 bolivares a month, around four times the minimum wage, but at a time of hyperinflation that is now worth about $30, barely enough to feed herself, her mother and a new baby brother."

"David González, not his real name, had a college degree, a career and modest middle-class dreams of owning a car and a house before Venezuela slipped towards its current crisis, and spiralling inflation made the food he needed to stay alive unaffordable. In a cafe in downtown Caracas, he explains how his dreams shrank with his wasting body, now so emaciated that ribs and collarbones poke through a once-chubby chest. “It’s sad because you stop thinking of what your professional goals and challenges are and instead just focus on what you can eat,” said the 29-year-old activist and journalist. Like many of Venezuela’s hungry middle classes he was ashamed of his situation."

Please, do yourself a favor and look at what really happened in Venezuela. If you don't care what the truth is, then maybe you are on the wrong web site.