"The Venezuelan government denies that its public hospitals are suffering from shortages, and has refused multiple offers of international medical aid."

The title of this page is a quote from a 2016 New York Times article called "Inside Venezuela's Crumbling Mental Hospitals."

Here's the address of the article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/world/americas/inside-a-dysfunctional-psychiatric-hospital.html


When the article was published, I wrote a page (at a past blog), criticizing it for emphasizing the importance of psychiatric drugs over food.  I have nothing to add to that criticism; it was and is valid.

However, there is no question that many of the patients whose pictures were taken for the article were starving to death.  Why none of the hospital employees seemed to be anywhere near starving is a question.

As someone who's been in more U.S. mental hospitals and psychiatric units than I can count or remember, I can tell you that I've never been anywhere that a patient bit off another patient's nose.



Does the Russian government have a Ministry of Ridiculous Public Statements where it sends some of its employees for training?


Quote, 2018:

"Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said the attempted aid delivery over the weekend was like an "illegal state border crossing" that amounted to a "forced feeding."

"What took place on Saturday was reminiscent not of assistance, but what is called forced feeding in the United States," he said. "For the uninitiate, this is a form of torture, apparently having trained on their detainees on Guantanamo, the US authorities now decided to force feed a whole country."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/us/venezuela-guaido-presidential-duties/index.html