Carita’s report confirms and expands on what the National Survey of Living Conditions (Encovi, made by an alliance of several universities) has been collecting since 2013. Both surveys record significant increases in crisis indicators. If we take into account that within the general population, in 2019, we could have a third of our child malnourished—enough to declare a famine, according to World Health Organization parameters—and considering how childhood malnutrition is associated with a long-term cognitive lag, can we say that Venezuela’s future will carry a “dead weight”? By Ignacio Jesús Sánchez Urdaneta. Full text-> Caracas Chronical
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