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The Documentary Podcast

Going Hungry in Venezuela

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Vladimir Hernandez returns home to oil-rich Venezuela, which is struggling to feed its own people in the midst of a spiralling economic crisis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:02.4

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0:04.9

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0:08.1

This is assignment with me, Vladimir Hernandez, coming from Venezuela, which is in the middle

0:37.4

of an economic crisis.

0:43.4

The lady just shouts into us right now that there's no food complaining about the situation

0:48.1

here in the country and extremely agitated about.

0:50.6

There's no food in this place.

0:58.8

The more we walk around this area, the more we get shouted out by people saying,

1:02.3

tell the truth, tell the people what's happening, that this is a place with a lot of suffering,

1:06.2

but there's no food. You can see food around us, but essentially people can play the

1:10.0

campfire. It's too expensive, but they just don't have access to it.

1:16.2

Food here is rationed and parceled out in small amounts. Simple things like chicken or fish are

1:21.9

scarce, and what little there is sells for astronomical prices. There's a woman in this market selling

1:28.0

a fish, but it costs more than most people can pay.

1:31.0

They just cannot afford this kind of food, and there's not enough food for everyone that

1:37.7

there's normally a queue for this.

1:43.8

If you have to buy the fish, you won't have the flower, you won't have the bread,

1:47.0

so you can't really buy anything. She's saying that people here are fainting hunger.

1:50.7

Facing hunger. Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves in the world,

2:04.0

but the fall in the price of oil has hit the country hard.

2:07.7

Three years on from the death of President Hugo Chavez, it's politically divided,

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