2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The economic crisis in Venezuela aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic has generated even more suffering for a population that, in some cases, resorts to measures such as eating sugarcane to alleviate hunger.
This was revealed to BBC Mundo in a moving testimony Manuela, 54, a Colombian who lives in one of the hills of the Petare neighborhood, one of the most dangerous and populated places in Caracas.
"Here we are, sucking sugarcane because it calms hunger a little," said Manuela, who before the quarantine subsisted on cleaning houses. "I do not go out to buy because as I do not work, I have no real."
Informal merchants in the community have denounced that the lack of movement of merchandise and the few sales that are barely enough to buy rice, reported the local news channel TVV.
Manuel Orozco, director of the remittances and immigration program of the Inter-American Dialogue, said that the crisis is presenting several problems and one of the most worrisome is that of migrants, who have stopped sending remittances to their families due to the lack of jobs in the countries where they now reside.
Venezuelans abroad also face the situation that they cannot access health or social welfare services where they are now. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, almost 60% of Venezuelans in Colombia have not registered with the government and therefore cannot access basic services, CNN reported.
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