Venezuelan Food Shortage

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    President Nicolas Maduro's Reign

    President Nicolas Maduro has been elected and the country starts to go into the worst recession they have ever had
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    Food Price Hike

    Food Prices rose 4,068 percent
  • Lootings increase

    Lootings increased from the holidays
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    Price Slash

    Authorities force supermarkets to slash prices in order for Venezuelans to afford food
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    "We Loot or We Die"

    The first eleven days of January the Venezuelan Observatory for Social Conflict showed that there were 107 lootings and even several deaths in almost all Venezuelan states
  • January 11th Mobs

    Ransacked grocery stores, food collection centers and even slaughtered cattle out grazing in a field
  • Poverty

    As of February 23rd 2018 87% of Venezuela was in poverty