Related: Venezuela trades oil for food with Jamaica However, exports of a handful of basic foods did go up. U.S. corn exports to Venezuela rose to $239 million from $140 million last year.

What makes Venezuela’s food crisis all the more grim is that experts agree it is a result of human decision-making. “It’s not due to droughts, or floods,” Deborah Hines, the World Food ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who in the past has denied that there is a crisis in his country, on Sunday announced an increase of 42% for the food vouchers some Venezuelan workers receive.

Venezuela’s multi-year economic crisis produces grim stories of scarcity and suffering month after month. Still, new data capturing the woes of the once well-heeled South American nation is ...

Many in Venezuela struggle to afford food during crisis The UN says that one out of three Venezuelans is food insecure and in need of assistance. To stream WUSA9 on your phone, you need the WUSA9 app.

Country in Crisis. The health crisis in Venezuela is just one side of a larger deterioration of the country, which has seen tensions rise as food and basic goods became scarce, inflation soared to ...

But then, as head of the Catholic charity Caritas’s response to the hunger crisis in Venezuela, ... well above the 10 percent threshold humanitarian agencies use to declare a food crisis.

LA VICTORIA, Venezuela — Hungry Venezuelans escalated attacks on trucks carrying scarce food to the country’s largest cities Wednesday, a day after hundreds of protesters were arrested by ...

The situation has deteriorated in recent years because of a variety of factors. — -- Today in Venezuela, families can wait in lines at the supermarket for 18 hours at a time to get the right ...

Zoo animals in Venezuela are being stolen and eaten as the country sinks further into a food shortage crisis, local police have said.. The Zulia Metropolitan Zoological Park in the city of ...

Venezuela’s second-largest city, Maracaibo, is one of the hardest hit places in a country that seems to be running out of almost everything — from bread to beer, from car parts to electricity.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who in the past has denied that there is a crisis in his country, on Sunday announced an increase of 42% for the food vouchers some Venezuelan workers receive.