Comment by 0xDEAFBEAD

From what I gather, most of the food insecurity in Venezuela arose pre-2017 back when Obama was doing narrowly targeted sanctions on key individuals. You can see undernourishment rockets upward after Maduro takes power in 2013:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prevalence-of-undernouris...

Nothing Trump has done to Venezuela was justified or sensible. I just want to clarify that the nation's dysfunction does not seem to be primarily due US activity. (Maybe if we wait a little bit, it will be!)