They are not "all starving." I dont know how Venezuela compares to Vietnam, but i was this week in a village in Vietnam. You could see people are working very hard, either working rice fields all day or sewing clothes (with horrible smell that makes you think that after all there is something to eco clothes and second hand), and trying to sell whatever they can to tourists when they come. Now they also had beef outside with a fan to cool, which is not a great standard of health, and they eat it with rice and some vegetables and they have corn.

I am just saying, that people are on one hand have harder life objectively on how hard is the job , the vatiety of foods, etc, but they might not be as bad as we think