Crossing Continents
Crossing Continents
BBC Radio 4
Going Hungry in Venezuela
27 minutes Posted Aug 4, 2016 at 3:30 am.
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Oil-rich Venezuela is struggling to feed its own people as a result of a spiralling economic and political crisis which has brought the country to its knees. Vladimir Hernandez returns to his home country where thousands queue for many hours in order to buy even the most basic of food stuffs. Malnutrition and starvation, unthinkable only a few years ago, are becoming a reality for some communities and particularly the poor.