Venezuela president eats empanada during live address; Twitter reminds him of hunger crisis in the country

The video of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro eating an empanada during a live address has gone viral creating a stir online, especially on Twitter, where people have bashed the President for displaying a lack of empathy for the citizens.

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Venezuela is currently going through a huge financial crisis as a result of its collapsing socialist economy. (Source: Hanna Dreier/Twitter)

Venezuela is going through a financial crisis and the south American country recently announced its plans to restructure its growing foreign debt. Its collapsing economy has left people in the country devoid of basics like food and medicine resulting in malnutrition among other severe health conditions. As the citizens are going through a crisis, it is a video of Nicolás Maduro, the President, giving a live address that is going viral. If you are wondering why, then it is because the Internet users haven’t taken it lightly to see Maduro munching on an empanada while the country reels under such grave conditions.

The video has gone viral, creating a stir online, especially on Twitter where people have bashed the President for displaying a lack of empathy for the citizens.

“Venezuela’s president, already mocked for gaining weight amid a hunger crisis, pulls out an empanada from his desk during a live TV address,” read the tweet of Hannah Dreier, a journalist in the country. This is the video.

Venezuela’s president, already mocked for gaining weight amid a hunger crisis, pulls out an empanada from his desk during a live TV address. pic.twitter.com/sPw63dbt83

— Hannah Dreier (@hannahdreier) November 3, 2017

Here are some of the responses it generated soon after on the micro-blogging site.

I can’t tell if he’s trolling or hungry

— Carl Setterlund (@CarlSetterlund) November 3, 2017

Stuffs face on live TV as his people starve. What a class act!

— Mark Gospodarek (@azinfadel) November 3, 2017

But the empanada . . .

It’s right there . . .

What’d you EXPECT me to do with it?!

— Buck Gibson (@buckgibson) November 5, 2017

Ok I still can’t believe he pulled an empanada out of a drawer in the middle of this conference ugh 😑

— Kirti Patel, MD (@kirtipatelmd) November 4, 2017

Troll level: Socialist Dictator

— JimTheBastard (@JimTheBastard) November 3, 2017

Crisis? What crisis? https://t.co/7QfinvE2aY

— Christopher MiIler (@GristoMill) November 3, 2017

Desk empanadas recipe: meat to be cooked until the country falls apart.

— Sandro R. (@FRSandro) November 3, 2017

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