Cabello: Whoever wants to fall for the American dream should do it, but the reality is different

Published at: 12/11/2025 08:10 PM

The general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello Rondón, assured that 74 million people are hungry in the United States (USA), so “whoever wants to fall for the American dream should do it, but the reality is different.”

In his program, Con El Mazo Dando read “The Geography of Hunger, Drugs and Structural Violence in the United States, a capitalist visual report, (October 4, 2025; Life, June 1964 and Time, May 1968 - August 1977)”, and explained that according to the US National Bureau of Censuses and Statistics, today there are 57,145,854 people living below the poverty line, of whom 24,727,580 live in extreme poverty, that is, one in five Americans lives on the brink of hunger.

He specified that, “at the time of reading these lines, 109,000 elderly people live abandoned on the streets, 771,480 families are homeless, 5 people die every five minutes from opioid overdoses and 3 people are killed every hour with firearms, at the rate of 7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, while in Venezuela the rate is 2.3 per day - even if they want to say the opposite-”.

He added that from 1960 to today, 2025, the old maps that described the geography of hunger, violence and drugs, limited to large cities, have been expanded to 52 federal entities. Hunger in the United States, its collaterals, violence and addictions, are diseases that have been expanding for decades (...) Former industrial metropolises, such as prosperous Detroit, are now ghost towns and the bucolic mountain valleys of the Appalachians are now “ghettos” that house 25 million whites in utter poverty, so in the 1964 election campaign, stamps or food stamps were created to alleviate the hardships of this population.”

In the report read, he specified that “the phenomenon is old, between 1964, 1968 and 1977 the magazines Time and Life, in separate special editions, reported the spread of hunger and drug trafficking, associated with the increase in poverty and violence as structural problems installed within a wildly capitalist and unequal society.

He explained that in 1969, the United States had 29,700,000 people living in extreme poverty, three times the population of Belgium and 35 million poor people in general. The crime rate was the highest in the world, and the use of narcotic and psychotropic substances was widespread throughout its territory. He recalled that at the beginning of that decade, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) emerged, a welfare measure to feed 13% of the population. At that time, the United States had an estimated population of 192,461,000 inhabitants. He said that SNAP, now deliberately torpedoed by Trump, puts 74 million people at risk of famine.

Regarding the issue of drug use, he commented that “by January 1972, 62% of the population, between 12 and 32 years old, had experienced the use of heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD or marijuana. In other words, within those parameters, 72 million people had ventured into the drug underworld.”

The report notes that “in 2025, when the dying U.S. empire has 347,927,768 inhabitants, 1% of the affluent population accounts for 70% of the national wealth and 74 million Americans (21%) are at risk of being left without a daily plate of food. This is thanks to government policies that allocate $997 trillion to military spending, while the education system, sports fields, free municipal schools and social programs for general welfare are being dismantled.”

Mazo News Team