Maduro diet

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the Maduro diet

  1. (informal, derogatory) Starvation in Venezuela (perceived to be) due to policies implemented by Nicolás Maduro.
    • 2017, Alexander Parker, Tim Richman, 50 People Who Messed up the World, →ISBN, page 72:
      Long-forgotten diseases such as diphtheria had returned, along with malnutrition; 'the Maduro diet' led to three-quarters of the population losing eight kilograms or more in 2016.
    • 2016, The Week, page 8:
      During a nationally televised speech this week, Maduro asked an audience member why he was so skinny, and one woman shouted out “the Maduro diet”—a common phrase among increasingly hungry Venezuelans.
    • 2017, Mariana Zuñiga, Nick Miroff, Venezuela’s paradox: People are hungry, but farmers can’t feed them:
      This collective emaciation is referred to dryly here as “the Maduro diet,” but it’s a level of hunger almost unheard-of outside war zones or areas ravaged by hurricane, drought or plague.

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