José Agustín López Pérez, a paraplegic man, has begun a nearly 400-mile journey in a wheelchair from western Venezuela into Colombia seeking life-saving medicine, the man told the Agence France-Presse in a report Thursday.
His story is representative of the desperation that has led thousands of Venezuelans to flee the country on foot, flooding neighboring Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador seeking food and medicine. Venezuela’s economy has nearly completely collapsed and faces reaching 1,000,000 percent inflation by 2019, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates. The collapse is a direct result of over two decades of socialist rule and the imposition of left-wing dictatorial economy and political policies on what was once Latin America’s most prosperous nation.
López’s story first appeared in AFP and has since been reproduced in Venezuela’s El Nacional newspaper. The 51-year-old man and his 20-year-old son Jefferson Alexis are hoping to cross about 600 kilometers (about 374 miles) overall, from San Cristóbal in western Venezuela to the Colombian capital of Bogotá. They have completed 100 kilometers and are at press time in Pamplona, Colombia. His son has pushed him uphill as the pair traveled through mountains in extreme conditions. more
maybe Sean Penn or Danny Glover or Robert Kennedy, Jr. can chip in a few bucks to re-charge his wheelchair batteries …… naaaaaaaah
human misery is never something to strive for … yet the Left continues to push for it
btw, love the revamping of the Venezuela flag
When asked why he was making the journey in a wheelchair, he replied, “Man, that’s just the way I roll”.
He’s lucky that he’s not being pushed in a wheel barrow rather than a wheel chair. Coming to the US if the democraps have their way.
Dude needs to roll north and get his free medicine from Cuba.
I got no use for quitters. Phuckin’ slacker, he’ll never amount to anything. No “Can Do” spirit, unwilling to give “110%”, ducking out on his team mates and making the worst example possible for those around him trying to excel.
Oh wait… Sorry! Thought I was a high school football coach there for a moment.
But the Democrats who have turned our major cities–and even some entire states–into violent shitholes will do socialism right!
If only his mother had foreseen this, she could have aborted him and saved him all this trouble.
The empty promises of socialism. Paging Bernie, Beto and O’Casio.
As Joe Biden is yelling at Jose’ “Stand Up Jose’, Stand Up Jose’, oh, oh, you can’t stand up, well God love ya!” And claps away….
I thought Steven Hawkins was already dead
The Ukraine suffered a holodomor yet remained communist another 60 odd years. Venezuelans aren’t skin and bones dying in the streets stripped of their organs for mince pies. First cannibalism, population reduction, gulags and high parasite loads, then there is maybe a 5% chance they quit socialism.
Hope he at least gets to San Francisco,,, A no foul zone. Damn you all are harsh. Except Bill Nye, finally Hawkins was put out of our misery.
FIFY