FAO: The Blockade Against Venezuela is "Unacceptable"
The UN organization's representative in the country expressed his rejection of unilateral coercive measures.
The use of a blockade is so that a nation does not have access to produce its own food is unacceptable, affirmed this Friday the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative in Venezuela, Rolf Hackbart.
"It is unacceptable that the mechanisms of the blockade, from foreign financial systems, are used to prevent a nation from accessing food, to produce the food in their country for their people," expressed Hackbart in an interview with a local radio station.
The official indicated that the prevalence of undernourishment in Venezuela from 2017 to 2019 is close to 30 percent of the population; and said that it is due to the "economic emergency through which the country has been going for several years."
"We need more public programs, national, regional, and municipal government programs for food production, but for that, we must have the freedom to import inputs and food," he said.
The FAO representative stated that Venezuela faces "enormous challenges" due to the blockade, and therefore requires assistance, as do as other countries.
Hackbart said that FAO has several projects in that South American country aimed at strengthening the productive sector's capacities at the national level and support for sustainable agricultural development to achieve food sovereignty.
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Random American wrote:Oh, it doesn't paint the socialist government in a good light? It must be imperialist propaganda!
It's an opposition poll, if you knew anything about Luis Vicente Leon. What a shock they don't view Maduro's government positively.
There's a reason his poll service is the most cited in Western media, because it serves the interests of the opposition and the U.S.
Leon's polling firm blamed U.S. sanctions on
Maduro rather than the U.S which imposed them, and its polling is often found to be way off from its claims, e.g. they claimed Random Guaido had a 55% approval rating
on June 9th of last year and overestimated the opposition turnout in the 2017 election. Independent journalist Joe Emersberger reports regularly on him and Datanalysis.
QatzelOk wrote:What choice do they have?
If they want to take an anti-Maduro position, they are also forced to ignore the killing and pillaging that will occur the minute the socialists are out of power.
Having an opinion that requires this kind of blindness... is only necessary if your lifestyle is atrocity-dependent.
But some of these posters are actually fine with the war(s) they're for, it's just odd they pretend they're not happening and then we remind them they're happening and they switch back to BUT MADURO!, playing ignorant to all the crimes they defend, such as sanctions that are killing tens of thousands of Venezuelans.
I guess this is some of what Michael Parenti talks about, about how U.S. imperialism isn't a thing to most Westerners because the corporate media they consume rarely refers to it. Their media is only there to brainwash them into supporting these wars - that they benefit nothing from - and they think their support for war(s) is something they thought up all by themselves, rather than being brainwashed into it.
Random American wrote:but I'm not going to support Maduro either.
Thing is, who gives a fuck if you support Maduro? That's for Venezuelans to decide.
He certainly doesn't have the people behind him
He won 67% of the vote in the last election and this is why the U.S. is already demanding the EU not recognise an election. Why else would they? Venezuelan officials have again invited observers from everywhere to come watch the election process take place, including from America. But America is not interested in anything Venezuelan besides its oil.
Your ilk have been crying about outside meddling of your last election for the last 4 years, but forget that instantly during threads like these. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't dangerous.
even though I know my country wants oil, as they want that oil too.
This should be your starting point and ending point and you should oppose this attempted theft. Unless thieving and mass murder is ok to you. Is it?
I genuinely think that a free election in Venezuela wouldn't elect Guaidó nor would it elect Maduro.
But it already has elected Maduro more than once, so I'm not sure what you're basing this information on, beyond some feelings you have.
Free Palestine.