{"id":16377,"date":"2016-07-21T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=16377"},"modified":"2016-07-21T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T06:20:54","slug":"archbishop-criticises-government-for-blocking-church-aid-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/07\/21\/archbishop-criticises-government-for-blocking-church-aid-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop criticises government for blocking Church aid &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Archbishop criticises government for blocking Church aid<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The head of the Venezuelan Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticised president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro for preventing the Church and other institutions from relieving the country&#8217;s severe food crisis. Venezuela&#8217;s socialist government is widely blamed for the crisis. Price controls on 160 essential products including food and soap introduced in 2003 led to shortages and many essential items are only available on the black market now at high prices.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening speech at the Venezuelan Conference of Catholic Bishops&#8217; recent plenary assembly, Archbishop Diego Padr\u00f3n of Cuman\u00e1 said \u201cThe interests of the government are not the interests of the country.\u201d He added: \u201cThe ungovernability, aside from the brutal repression, the lack of serious and stabilizing responses that would be more than improvisational and provisional, create the widespread perception that the global crisis is getting more acute and is being prolonged with no end in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Padr\u00f3n warned that this perception creates in the population \u201cuncertainty, hopelessness, depression, anger and social violence.\u201d Referring to looting and riots over food shortages which took place in Cuman\u00e1 and \u00a0Tucupita in last month, he said these cities and \u00a0others \u00a0\u201chave experienced the effects of the wrong economic and social policies and the indolence of the authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Padr\u00f3n again appealed for the Church to be allowed to bring in \u201cthe medications needed by many Venezuelans requiring heightened medical attention.\u201d Last May aid agencies made three attempts to persuade Maduro&#8217;s regime to allow them to bring food and medicine into the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability of Caritas Venezuela to pull together resources and the cooperation of private institutions \u2013 and not of government entities \u2013 makes us capable of receiving and adequately distributing the many offers we receive daily from the outside. This is not the ultimate solution but it would provide relief that we shouldn&#8217;t be waiting for any more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop criticises government for blocking Church aid\u00a0 The head of the Venezuelan Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticised president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro for preventing the Church and other institutions from relieving the country&#8217;s severe food crisis. Venezuela&#8217;s socialist government is widely blamed for the crisis. 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