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

of an economic crisis.

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

here in the country and extremely agitated about.

There's no food in this place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

there's normally a queue for this.

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

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

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

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

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

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