'People who are starving do not mobilize in the streets': The Venezuelan people, once residents of Latin America's wealthiest country, may be too weakened to continue the anti-Maduro fight for much longer, an expert said at a US Senate subcommittee hearing
Washington Six weeks after Juan Guaido declared himself Venezuela's President, US lawmakers are wrestling with the possibility that momentum behind his political movement could stall and the question of how to respond as the crisis ripples regionwide.
One reason: The Venezuelan people, once residents of Latin America's wealthiest country, may be too weakened by starvation to take to the streets for much longer, one expert told the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Latin America. "People who are starving do not mobilize in the streets," Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin America Program at the Wilson Center, told the subcommittee on Thursday."There is actually widespread starvation.
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