A Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela? A Case Study into NGO Mercy Corps

[venezuelanalysis.com]

(The Independent expert is concerned about the level of polarization and disinformation that surrounds every narrative about Venezuela. In paragraph 42 he notes: “A disquieting media campaign seeks to force observers into a preconceived view that there is a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. An independent expert must be wary of hyperbole, bearing in mind that ‘humanitarian crisis’ is a terminus technicus that can be misused as a pretext for military intervention…&rdquo

(In paragraph 45: “The “crisis” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is an economic crisis, which cannot be compared with the humanitarian crises in Gaza, Yemen, Libya, the Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq, Haiti, Mali, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, or Myanmar, among others. It is significant that when, in 2017, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela requested medical aid from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the plea was rejected, because it ‘is still a high-income country … and as such is not eligible’. During his mission, the Independent Expert discussed the issues of food and medicine scarcity with experts from FAO and obtained pertinent data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. The December 2017 FAO report and the March 2018 report list food crises in 37 countries. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is not among them.&rdquo

(The report recalls in paragraph 29 that the “Charter of the United Nations rests on the philosophy of multilateralism, a commitment to international cooperation, and the sovereign equality of States. Countries must not be isolated and boycotted, but helped in strengthening their democratic institutions. Over the past sixty years, non-conventional economic wars have been waged against Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, the Syrian Arab Republic, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in order to make their economies fail, facilitate regime change and impose a neo-liberal socioeconomic model. In order to discredit selected governments, failures in the field of human rights are maximized so as to make violent overthrow more palatable. Human rights are being ‘weaponized’ against rivals. Yet, human rights are the heritage of every human being and should never be instrumentalized as weapons of demonization. Instead, measures of inclusion are necessary, as is reliance on the expertise of international organizations&hellip

Above are out of another article within the initial article posted. Another thing not brought up in this is the black market at the border of Venezuela and Columbia. While our main stream media loudly voices a crossing over to Columbia for food, it's purposely silent of those crossing over to Venezuela. Which is another cause for some of the shortages. Gas is a big commodity for one. Food, not so much as one of the article paragraphs indicate above in the study. Certain items are short for reasons of the corporate entities purposely making them short. For newer members here, see Abby Martin in Venezuela below explaining this, and other false narratives by our main stream media.