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Caribbean-Latin America
Maduro to hungry city dwellers: grow your own food
2016-11-02
Venezuela continues to have "bad luck"...
Some Venezuelan city dwellers are trying to grow their own produce to offset the country’s severe shortages following socialist President Nicolás Maduro’s calls for “food sovereignty.”

But in a country where families are going hungry as a result of government mismanagement and sky-high inflation, many view the “Great Agro-Venezuela Mission” with skepticism.

“Agriculture shouldn’t be a solution” to the country’s shortages, said former landowner Iraima Pacheco de Leandro, 54, a well-to-do government opponent who lives in Caracas.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  What's Spanish for "juche"?
Posted by: charger   2016-11-02 22:51  

#5  Most of the (cough) seed money is being distributed in densely populated urban areas, with marginal to poisonous soil, not in the countryside. We're talking patio farming here.

Posted by: Shipman   2016-11-02 13:06  

#4  Property and land ownership is the hallmark of freedom and the free man. Perhaps that is why gov't always wants to seize it and insist it be used for the public good.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-11-02 10:23  

#3  A guy I know from Chile told me the statists took over his country and redistributed the wealth of many of the estates. Most of the people who received the redistributed wealth ate the farm animals and edible foodstuff such as gardens and then they had no more. A few caught on how to husband their redistributed wealth and they started building and growing again.

During WWII in the U.S. people had Victory Gardens to help sustain themselves during the war. Of course many of them were property owners also. Property rights are important to freedom and liberty.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-11-02 10:16  

#2  government mismanagement and sky-high inflation,

As though there is any difference between the first, cause, and the second, effect.

Actually small plot agriculture worked in the USSR. After the collectivization movement some ridiculously large proportion of vegetables were grown on the tiny plots that were left outside government control.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-11-02 09:40  

#1  Hopefully he told them to grow cake.
Posted by: gorb   2016-11-02 00:39  

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