Venezuela crisis: Where families buy rotten meat to eat - BBC News

this is soleus biggest and popular meat market well it used to be at least now it's less about meat and more about who's fat tripe animal offcuts have become the affordable option for Venezuelans priced out by hyperinflation anything makes a good soup or stew be happily welcome Brown W [Music] [Music] rotten thief is also sold here in this market it smells strong it's got flags all over it Alain check on me a kilo of beef costs up to a third of the monthly minimum wage and would provide maybe a couple of meals but this rotten beef is 1% of a salary refrigerators in the market at constant power cuts c-file aloo DFS AL dia apart a reservoir for cuatro horas a either al otro lado - article American CEO time alone is yawning it's not just electricity there's chaos everywhere hospitals are also affected by this crisis equipment sunbeds left derelict there's no money to repair them no garbage removal means outside hospitals you find huge piles of medical waste including drips and needles and piles of rubbish are also a source for food here for desperate families anything will do but this is a province with huge oil reserves this wealth is almost everywhere it's under the ground it's right up to its shores many here accused the government of mismanaging the country's enormous wealth to which the ruling party is very quickly to reply that it's foreign government and the political opposition who are to blame but you have to queue for almost everything from food to cash withdrawals queues in which you can easily spend the whole day public transport is on the verge of collapse people now take whatever form of transport they can find and frequent power shortages are often leading to protests but even those who die escape the crisis frequent power cuts mean morgues can't keep bodies refrigerated [Music] [Music] defecating see hope you know my power you know my poor you know this is a rich nation but most people here are not rich when I met Mario Kenya she had been five days without any electricity her only fridge was connected to a neighbor's generator so they got two fridges this one works not much in it this one got damaged say make Himalaya semi-people anybody need it was for a woman Maria is about to undergo surgery for breast cancer and she's had to find and buy everything the doctors need including needles drugs and even the gloves hospitals simply don't have them but she's worried about how she will recover in a house with no air-conditioning in 40 degrees heat only Maria's trauma is a Venezuelan drama Vladimir Hernandez BBC news Maracaibo you

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Length: 4min 46sec (286 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 16 2018