Venezuela’s Dark Night of the Soul

Now socialism becomes death, the destroyer of worlds.

A heartbreaking scene: Vice President Mike Pence and Venezuelan President Juan Guaido meet with Venezuelans forced to flee their homes. Feb. 25, 2019, in Bogota, Colombia. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

Darkest Before Dawn

“We are in the middle of a catastrophe that is not the result of a hurricane, that is not the result of a tsunami. It’s the product of the inefficiency, the incapability, the corruption of a regime that doesn’t care about the lives of Venezuelans.” — Venezuelan President Juan Guaido

Vice President Mike Pence and Venezuelan President Juan Guaido meet with displaced Venezuelans on Feb. 25, 2019, in Bogota, Colombia. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

As widespread electricity blackouts plague the country, Venezuelan citizens are taking to the streets en masse to protest the Maduro regime.

People under treatment in Venezuelan hospitals languish as facilities already encumbered by inadequate food and water suffer during the blackouts. State-run hospitals typically rely on backup generators in the event of occasional power loss, but doctors and hospital staff report to Reuters these are either inoperable or out of fuel.

Today, in state-run Venezuelan hospitals, doctors are relying on prayer.