“That something is the corruption of the Maduro regime.”Venezuela’s U.N. Mission did not send a representative to the open meeting and the mission had no comment on it. Maduro regularly blames Venezuela’s shortages and inflation on an economic war waged by the United States and other capitalist powers. Venezuelan authorities also accuse opponents of sounding an alarm about a humanitarian crisis to justify a foreign military intervention. This includes “at the end when they replaced more valuable or popular food products, such as dry milk with lower value, mass-produced products,” Billingslea said. “The valuable products are then sold on the black market at high profit margins for officials’ personal enrichment,” he said.

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2018 22:49 UTC