Grocery shopping during Venezuela’s food shortages

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VICE

Published on Jun 21, 2016
This week Venezuelans are lining up to validate their signatures on a recall referendum for President Maduro. Among the reasons for Maduro's unpopularity is that more and more people are starting to wonder where their next meal is coming from. These days, those who have enough Venezuelan currency (now trading at 1,000 bolivars to the dollar on the black market) to buy food often have a hard time finding any.

We meet three Caracas residents who show us what they've got to eat.

[BlueCaliDem]

1. How is it even possible, that in a time that food production is at its highest in history, there are

still food shortages??

Corruption. That's what this is. Corruption among the powerful in those countries is why there are 'food shortages'.

This was heartbreaking footage.

They should recall their corrupt president and their legislature. If he and the National Assembly can't even work to ensure his people have enough to eat, he and every member of the National Assembly should be REMOVED.

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3. Oh, and if you aren't a member of the Socialist party you don't get your "bag"

of a kilo of beans, some flour, cooking oil and one drink, that is supposed to last a month-

Maduro is a fucking joke- Will wait with baited breath for our resident chavismos show up to spin this as the fault of the US-

[BlueCaliDem]

6. There's nothing socialist about that Party. They're ugly autocrats, using the socialism moniker for

political power and gain. There's absolutely NO excuse to not do anything to help their starving people!

It's these despots that give socialism a BAD name, and you're right - Maduro is an effing joke!

[LWolf]

2. What an unfortunate acronym. nt

[underpants]

4. Marking. Thanks for posting this.

[COLGATE4]

5. Before Chavez Venezuela was a country that most other people

in Latin America wanted to live in for the very high standard of living. A short 15 years later and this is what's left. Unbelievable. Maduro seems to be trying to one-up Robert Mugabe.