Venezuelans are starving and desperately ransacking supermarkets and food delivery trucks in order to avoid death.  The consequences of socialism are grim indeed, and the New York Times is wringing its hands over the human misery just across the Caribbean from the United States.  It’s Sunday edition report on the situation was full of pathos: With delivery trucks under constant attack, the nation’s food is now transported under armed guard. Soldiers stand watch over bakeries. The police fire rubber bullets at desperate mobs storming grocery stores, pharmacies and butcher shops. A 4-year-old girl was shot to death as street gangs fought over food. Venezuela is convulsing from hunger. Yet, oddly enough, in over 1,500 words on the situation, there is no mention whatsoever of socialism as a root cause.  Instead, low oil prices are blamed, and the only mention of a word related to socialism was this: [1989 riots in Caracas] seared the memory of...(Read Full Post)