WORLD_ Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry

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Venezuela was suffering the worst economic meltdown in its history even before the coronavirus pandemic. Ariana Cubillos/Associated Press


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Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry

A report found 13% of children under 5 are stunted; oil-rich nation is ‘on the edge of an irreversible catastrophe’


By John Otis
Oct. 1, 2020 5:30 am ET

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Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas.

Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten cheese.”

A widespread scarcity of gasoline is the latest blow to domestic food production in Venezuela, preventing goods from getting to market and farmers from filling up their tractors. Food production in this oil-rich nation had already been hobbled by shortages of seeds and agrochemicals, price controls that made raising crops unprofitable, and the seizures of farms and food-processing plants by the socialist government.

READ MORE: https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-food-chain-is-breaking-and-millions-go-hungry-11601544601?mod=hp_lead_pos5


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