Food has become so scarce in Venezuela after the economy collapsed that people are getting desperate. The government blames international sanctions for the situation.
Venezuela crisis: Where families buy rotten meat to eat – BBC News
Food has become so scarce in Venezuela after the economy collapsed that people are getting desperate. The government blames international sanctions for the situation.
Venezuela: Mothers giving away babies – BBC News
Oil-rich Venezuela is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, according to the United Nations. Extreme poverty has jumped 40%, deaths related to child malnutrition are on the rise, and millions have fled the country in the past two years. Many inside and outside Venezuela blame the policies of socialist President Nicolas Maduro. But his supporters point to the opposition, and also « imperialist forces » outside the country – including the US, which has imposed sanctions. Mothers and children have been among those hit hardest, as the BBC’s Vladimir Hernandez found when he spent time in the capital, Caracas.
Venezuela crisis: How the situation escalated – BBC News
Venezuela’s political crisis appears to be reaching boiling point amid growing efforts by the opposition to unseat the socialist president, Nicolás Maduro. The South American country has been caught in a downward spiral for years with growing political discontent further fuelled by skyrocketing hyperinflation, power cuts and shortages of food and medicine. More than three million Venezuelans have left the country in recent years. But what exactly is behind the crisis rocking Venezuela?
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