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Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela — Carmen Salas, a mother of three in the working-class southern reaches of this anxious capital, wandered through the vast produce market known as Coche ...
Venezuela is facing one of the world’s worst food crises as a gasoline shortage makes it harder for farmers to produce and deliver their goods. A recent U.N.-sponsored report found that about ...
PUERTO CABELLO, Venezuela (AP) — When hunger drew tens of thousands of Venezuelans to the streets in protest last summer, President Nicolas Maduro turned to the military to manage the country's ...
Plenty of salt at one Venezuela food market, ... Datanalysis, the best-known Venezuelan polling agency, now estimates that more than 80% of basic foodstuffs are unavailable in the country.
Caracas, Venezuela – Venezuela’s most recent initiative to deal with the widespread food shortages? Some 9,000 “committees” across the country made up of government loyalists are now ...
In Venezuela the food lines are only the most visible evidence of a nation in free fall. Known as las colas, the lines form before dawn and last until nightfall, ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday that people linked to the Venezuelan government and Mexican companies conspired to overcharge Venezuela for basic food aid packages. Known as "CLAP ...
After working a corporate job in Barcelona, then in Poland and later in Rotterdam, Mr. Mendoza, 32, missed home and Venezuelan food. So he started making and selling arepas at weekly outdoor ...
In this Nov. 14, 2016 photo, a youth uses his pillow as a bag to collect rice from the pavement that shook loose from a food cargo truck waiting to enter the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the ...