They Buy Damaged Meat In Venezuela

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

In the face of the economic crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, residents of Maracaibo have resorted to buying rotten meat, according to a report by the AP news agency, which is reproduced in the Miami Herald.

This city was considered as the Saudi Arabia of the South American country due to its oil wealth. However, today the reality is different. Before the blackouts for long hours that the country suffers, the refrigerators or refrigerators have collapsed. So, that meat is damaged or spoiled that people buy, because as AP explains, it is their only way to acquire protein.

The economic crisis has directly affected the health of the Venezuelan. AP reports that some of the people who eat this damaged meat get sick. "It smells a little bad, but that is washed with a little vinegar and lemon," Yeudis Luna, father of three children, who buys this type of meat, told the AP.

Faced with the rampant crisis that the country is facing, the AP reports that President Nicolás Maduro alleges that what is happening is due to the war between the United States government and other countries that use the capitalist system.

AP indicates that although there were always blackouts, in Maracaibo the situation worsened when, following a fire, one of the main lines that provided electricity to the more than 1.5 million inhabitants of the region was broken. After what happened, the fridges were no longer working. The meat was damaged. However, at least four butchers have sold that spoiled meat. For his part, Luna, a single father of children of 6, 9 and 10 years old, explained that he gave the meat to the minors and the little boy became ill with vomiting and diarrhea.