The people of Venezuela are starving. There is a shortage of food and medicine, says Reuters, while recounting a terribly saddening story of a Venezuelan mother giving away her child. They live on $6 a month. “Just one chicken meal would now burn up half [of their] monthly income.” The BBC says that “This will be a difficult Christmas for thousands of impoverished Venezuelan families, some of whom are now facing genuine hunger.” Once one of the richest nation in South America, Venezuela has been brought to its knees, seemingly overnight. The sudden fall in oil prices has led to a recession with the socialist government, in trying to prop up the economy by printing money, provoking inflation. Read more: cryptocoinsnews.com
