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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.
Here are some of the responses it generated soon after on the micro-blogging site.
https://twitter.com/azinfadel/status/926471763931910144
https://twitter.com/JimTheBastard/status/926546713455812608
https://twitter.com/GristoMill/status/926473181153628160
https://twitter.com/FRSandro/status/926523035498070016
