{"id":341763,"date":"2017-12-31T01:38:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T00:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lamenting-venezuelas-humanitarian-crisis-while-blocking-its-resolution\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T01:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T00:38:46","slug":"lamenting-venezuelas-humanitarian-crisis-while-blocking-its-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lamenting-venezuelas-humanitarian-crisis-while-blocking-its-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamenting Venezuela\u2019s \u201cHumanitarian Crisis\u201d While Blocking Its Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98616\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98616\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-28-at-10.16.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joka Madruga | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A <em>New York Times<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/12\/17\/world\/americas\/venezuela-children-starving.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FVenezuela\"> headline<\/a> screams \u201cAs Venezuela collapses, children are dying of hunger.\u201d Lurid pictures show dead infants. A companion \u201carticle of the day teaching activities,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/20\/learning\/teaching-activities-for-as-venezuela-collapses-children-are-dying-of-hunger.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FVenezuela&amp;_r=0\">asks<\/a>: \u201cWhy do some young children choose to live on the streets instead of at home with their families?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The key to understanding the wellspring of the <em>Times\u2019<\/em> indignation about humanitarian issues confronting Venezuela is hinted at in the by-line to the article: \u201cVenezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world.\u201d The stakes are high for the US empire.<\/p>\n<p>The back story is that the <em>Times<\/em> and the rest of the corporate media have cheered on US government policies that have contributed to the current grave situation in Venezuela, while obstructing solutions other than regime change.<\/p>\n<p>Although the <em>Times <\/em>caterwauls about the Venezuelan president\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/03\/opinion\/nicolas-maduro-sanctions.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;assetType=opinion\">drive to dictatorship<\/a>,\u201d the newspaper of record fails to support mediation between the current government and elements of the now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-politics-opposition\/venezuelan-opposition-disarray-heaps-pain-on-protesters-idUSKBN1CU1NP\">demoralized opposition<\/a> who are willing to accept an outcome short of regime change. Rather, the <em>Times<\/em> blithely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/03\/opinion\/nicolas-maduro-sanctions.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;assetType=opinion\">opine<\/a>s \u201cNo nation should have to suffer such a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regime change in Venezuelan would only put into power an <a href=\"https:\/\/venezuelanalysis.com\/analysis\/13270\">unpopular opposition<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/venezuelanalysis.com\/news\/13240\">no plan<\/a> or inclination to address economic recovery. When the Venezuelan people went to the polls, as they did in the last two most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/12\/09\/569673632\/despite-maduros-unpopularity-venezuela-s-opposition-isn-t-a-shoo-in-for-election\">recent elections<\/a>, they supported the present Maduro government despite the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/29\/lamenting-venezuelas-humanitarian-crisis-while-blocking-its-resolution\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Joka Madruga | CC BY 2.0 A New York Times headline screams \u201cAs Venezuela collapses, children are dying of hunger.\u201d Lurid pictures show dead infants. A companion \u201carticle of the day teaching activities,\u201d asks: \u201cWhy do some young children choose to live on the streets instead of at home with their families?\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}