Despite news of inflation, crime, and looming threat of another guarimba insurrection there is some good news reported by Broadcast the Truth:
Venezuelan Vice President of Planning and Knowledge, Ricardo Menendez, said Wednesday the decline in the unemployment rate to 6.7% in July as in Venezuela have created over 4.5 million new jobs.
Menendez said at a press conference that 95% of Venezuelans eat three times a day, because the country's economy "has sufficient force" to support these figures.
"In the last two years there have been unprecedented attacks on the economy. There are only small perturbations from the point of view of desrrollo, we as an economic model and has to do with each of the attacks has been Venezuela (...) We are under a scheme of economic war in the country and yet we have seen indicators of food consumption per day per capita show that over 95% of our population eating three or more times a day. "
He stated that "regardless of the economic war that our country has suffered, there is an economy with an impressive force with a huge force. It's like a body that is infested with a virus and has sufficient strength to withstand the onslaught of an economic war".
You will not hear this in the International media at all, because it will not fit the media narrative of Venezuela is a failing economy because of centralized socialism. The real question is if they keep pushing the narrative of a failing economy, why 95% of Venezuelans are able to eat three times a day? It would explain why there are both long lines in Venezuelan supermarkets for both the working class and the middle-classes? The latter is obvious due to economic warfare but the former makes since because more than ever, they got more money to buy basic goods.
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