Venezuela sliding into anarchy

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IT's getting worse! as the 'Iron Maiden of Hunger' rears her ugly head:

"Lately, food is a better business than drugs," said retired Gen. Cliver Alcala, who helped oversee border security.

...the military is making money from it, an Associated Press investigation shows. That’s what grocer Jose Campos found when he ran out of pantry staples this year. In the middle of the night, he would travel to an illegal market run by the military to buy pallets of corn flour — at 100 times the government-set price.
“The military would be watching over whole bags of money,” Campos said. “They always had what I needed.”
With much of the country on the verge of starvation and billions of dollars at stake, food trafficking has become one of the biggest businesses in Venezuela, the AP found. And from generals to foot soldiers, the military is at the heart of the graft, according to documents and interviews with more than 60 officials, business owners and workers, including five former generals.
As a result, food is not reaching those who most need it.

http://www.dailyjournal.net/2016/12/28/lt-venezuela-undone-profiting-from-hunger/