‘We’re Losing the Fight’: Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis

I certainly hope that the US is doing everything possible to ameliorate this sort of crisis. No matter how odious the Maduro government, it is the responsibility of Americans to provide what help they can using whatever means necessary. I would be shocked (and surprised) to discover that the American government was impeding any humanitarian response.

This is socialism on parade.

Venezuela is not the only country in Latin America with a tuberculosis crisis. México has the same problem nowadays, even among middle class people, new strains are appearing, such as pleural tuberculosis. Government public care services have imposed a heavy censorship on this matter. Anyway, Venezuela surely is in worst condition

Bank these images next time you hear someone rail against capitalism.

Curious to me that our Venezuela sanctions program -- including exportation and re-exportation of medicines -- is not mentioned in the article.

When I left Venezuela in 2005, middle class educated people like me were called "escualidos" (snowflake would be the better translation) or "pitty-yankees" by a majority of the population emboldened by the high oil prices and Chavez expropriate/give away attitude that they loved. "Asi, asi, asi es que se gobierna!" or "this is how you govern!" they used to chant. A small minority of us warned them they would regret it. I feel sorry for the starving children dying of curable diseases, but the majority of adults (65% or so) who voted for Chavez, had this coming, it is no one's fault but them. Let this be a lesson for angry people who don't know how good they have it but vote for a guy because "he tells it like it is" and is going to be the avenger of the people against the system

So, anyone from Venezuela to enter to the USA, must present a negative test. from a doctor we certify.

Socialism’s scorecard is always measured in human death and tragedy.

Venezuela's Maduro plan is now threatening the health of South America. It is time for the world to step in and force them to accept aid of food and medicines from the rest of the world. They have refused in the past but it is past time for allowing this experiment in Chavez politics to continue. People are malnourished which leads to disease. Brazil is experiencing an outbreak of yellow fever. They are going to vaccinate the entire country. Venezuela doesn't have the resources to do that if it needed to. Venezuela has an upsurge in TB with no resources to treat it which will allow it to spread. This isn't North Korea or Iran. The people would be on the side of the UN if they arrived with aid.

Wait, what happened to the great healthcare system that Chavez promised his people under his socialist rule? And why hasn't Cuba come to the aid of their sister socialists? After all, Chavez and Castro were best buddies. It appears that Chavez' successors have mismanaged the cash cow of unlimited oil resources into a dark hole from which they cannot extricate themselves. Another nail in the coffin of the totalitarian state model.

What an awful health crisis in the midst of a perversely-induced famine, by an ignorant and incompetent despot, Chavez' successor Nicolas Maduro. The 'return' of diseases once under control, by a wicked, perverse neglect, and fund diversion, is creating havoc on the Venezuelan people. How much longer can this outrage go on, without the neighboring countries coming to their help, and demanding justice by Maduro's ouster, so urgent reform may be promoted? So the country stops depending on one product for survival (the curse of it's richness, oil) and diversifies it's economy? So an immediate relief assistance in goods and services may enter the country...while avoiding the crooks in power from enriching themselves from other's magnanimity? This is a man-made disaster, likely in need of a woman-in-control wisdom to solve this crisis, a deadly 'machismo' in disarray.