A Venezuelan baseball star has died from pneumonia after his backwards, Socialist (but definitely not a sh*thole) country failed to provide him with proper medical care. Probably because his doctors were too busy killing zoo animals for food or something.
A former Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins pitcher died in his native Venezuela of pneumonia that baseball colleagues say was made worse by medicine shortages in the crisis-wracked nation.
At just 34 years old, Marcos Carvajal, who’d moved back to his home country of Venezuela to play for a local team, checked himself into a nearby hospital back in December complaining of respiratory problems. He was eventually diagnosed with pneumonia – a dangerous but treatable condition – only to be told that the socialist-run Venezuelan hospital didn’t have the drugs he needed. ESPN reports Carvajal’s family was finally able to procure the drugs, which had to be shipped from overseas at God only knows what cost.
Carvajal was eventually sent back home, where he almost immediately suffered a relapse and was sent back to the same drugless hospital that couldn't help him in the first place. He died a day later on January 24.
Carvajal’s tragic (and most likely avoidable) death comes amid reports that impoverished Venezuelans are now raiding cattle ranches, looting markets and holding food trucks at gunpoint because they literally don’t have enough to eat.
But please, lefty Millennials. Tell us more about the joys of Socialism and government-run healthcare.