Interested in shedding a few pounds? Perhaps it’s time to take the socialism diet, skip Meatless Mondays or a vegetarian diet.
Last year, a study that found most Venezuelans shed 19 pounds in 2016 rocked headlines (SEE: Study: 75% of Venezuelans lost 19 pounds in 2016, 82% live in poverty). It further noted that for the 82 percent who live in extreme poverty, the weight loss is even greater than that.
Well, a second study has discovered that Venezuelans are losing even more weight.
A new university study reported that citizens lost on average 24 pounds in 2017, and close to 90 percent reside in extreme poverty. Unfortunately, nearly two-thirds say they had woken up hungry in the last three months because they did not have enough food. Also, one-quarter of the population eats two or less meals a day.
“Income is being pulverized,” Maria Ponce, one of the study’s investigators, told a news conference at the Andres Bello Catholic University on Caracas’s outskirts. “This disparity between the rise in prices and the population’s salaries is so generalized that there is practically not a single Venezuelan who is not poor.”
The inflation rate in the South American country has topped 5,000 percent.
Interestingly enough, the original source (Reuters) did not once mention the words “socialism” or “socialist.”
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