‘Primitive survival mode’: Young freedom fighter details how socialism ruined Venezuela
by Brendan Pringle | November 03, 2019 06:00 AM Since the election of President Nicolás Maduro to his first term in April 2013, the South American country’s once-thriving economy has collapsed under the weight of its failed socialist policies, causing inflation to rise by a whopping 1,300,000%, and leaving the nation’s poor struggling to survive. More than 21% are suffering from hunger, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
“The situation is extremely dire for the huge percentage of the population that lives in poverty,” Andrés Guilarte, a young Venezuelan political activist who is now living in the United States, told the Washington Examiner. “Almost 90 percent [of the country] is living with less than $1 per month.”
Guilarte has dedicated his life to fighting back against the rise of tyranny and the trampling of basic political freedoms. His term at the Central University of Venezuela was interrupted by government officials who intimidated freedom fighters on campus with tear gas. After leaving Venezuela in early 2019 to work as an intern with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., he has been sharing his story with the world.
Guilarte argues that socialism has taken the people of Venezuela to a “primitive survival mode.”
“Every single day, people are facing choices between buying food or paying for bus tickets, eating garbage, not being able to find medicines or not having money to pay for it, [as well as] water and electricity shortages,” said Guilarte.
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