15 Replies to “How Deep, Señor Maduro?”

  1. We were SOLD Obamakare … because … no drug company, and no Doctor should PROFIT from healthcare. Well … Behold.the status of “Free” medical care in Socialist nirvana Venezuela ! Death and Misery.

  2. “yet the government saved little money for hard times when oil prices were high. Now that prices have collapsed — they are around a third what they were in 2014 — the consequences are casting a destructive shadow across the country”
    As explanation for the cause of Venezuela’s demise, this statement in the article says much more about the New York Times than it does about Venezuela. Even now, they can’t bring themselves to admit the abject failure of socialism.

  3. Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Alberta’s Failing Hospitals
    By Don Braid MAY 15, 2024
    EDMONTON, Canada — By morning, three newborns were already dead.
    The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward.
    Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours. By nightfall, four more newborns had died.
    “The death of a baby is our daily bread,” said Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon in the province’s capital, Edmonton, referring to the toll from Alberta’s collapsing hospitals.
    The decline started in 2015, when the NDP government came to power. After effectively shutting down the province’s fossil fuel industry and wasting billions on green energy, the society started to collapse.
    Conditions are similar across Canada and the City of Toronto now resembles Detroit back in the 2010s.
    ______________end of silliness ______________________
    Further reading
    Ontario to spend $7-billion on sweeping climate change plan
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-to-spend-7-billion-in-sweeping-climate-change-plan/article30029081/

  4. Holy shit! A year ago, Venezuela was a standing joke. Now it’s a horror show. Fixing this will require a mind as brilliant as Sean Penn’s. Has anyone called him?

  5. And of course, the socialist government’s only concern is holding onto power any way it can. Viva la revolucion!

  6. Canadians are so much smarter.
    Let us die on gurneys lined up along the emergency room hall, that way we never clutter up the records.
    Same way crime is falling, because people see no point in reporting it.
    Reporting a crime is now more painful than being the victim of one.
    No record = no happen.
    Canada, check the box.
    Better yet the bureaucracy can now assign your physician/assassin to head you off before you mess up their filing system .
    Looked good on paper I guess.
    As the cost continues to escalate, the ponzi scheme gets more and more top heavy.
    Viva Venezuela.
    Our future, lead by Ontario.

  7. Hard words to read…I can’t imagine the look of anguish on the health care worker’s faces after losing newborns after hours of feverishly trying to keep them alive. Socialism doesn’t spread out access to services more equitably like they all want us to believe. It puts all but the very rich and powerful in the same boat of having to share less and less until there is nothing left.
    I hate socialists. What they are selling are poisonous lies with consequences that leave ever growing piles of dead innocents. Stealing from others always ends badly for everyone involved. The most innocent of which never had enough time on Earth to understand the evil that consumed them. We’re all expendable under such wretched idealogy.

  8. socialism/communism is a great system to reduce the population. man I constantly am amazed at how stupid my fellow human beings can be. even my kids are stupid and I thought they learned something from me.

  9. “But Mr. Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez, went on television and rejected the effort, describing the move as a bid to undermine him and privatize the hospital system.
    “I doubt that anywhere in the world, except in Cuba, there exists a better health system than this one,” Mr. Maduro said.”
    Change the names, and this is the response when possible solutions to “health care” issues in Ontario are offered.

  10. How did Venezuela get the largest oil reserves in the world? Canada, Saudi Arabia and even Russia are still doing okay even if we don’t have as much oil. Could any of this have anything to do with a certain Hugo Chavez. Probably not as he was the best leader in the world, second only to Fidel Castro.

  11. Kinda makes you wonder what Maduro would call an awful healthcare system. And I mean “non American”, because that’s what he’d say first, and I want to head him off at the pass.

  12. Vicious voters for the progressive liberal socialist left want to impose this suffering on their neighbours, it can’t happen overnight, so they start with laws prohibiting you from buying a large coke, government lectures on salt intake etc.
    Nasty, very nasty, people.

  13. At the end of an old movie, an actor kneels in the sand and looks at the remains of The Statue of Liberty as it appears tilted into the sand.
    “God damn you.
    God Damn You all to hell.”
    Seems about the only appropriate thing I can say. And I refer to way more people of “authority” than the sacks of s**t running Venezuela.

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