Oil-rich Venezuela has faced chronic shortages of food and medicine as a result of ... escalated All you need to know in nine charts The Local Committees for Supply and Production scheme, known ...

The search for food in Venezuela Families live mainly on cereals ... Rampant hyperinflation has made the local currency, the bolivar, almost worthless. A cup of coffee with milk sets you back ...

Speculators were accused then of causing shortages by buying state-subsidised food and petrol in Venezuela and taking them to Colombia to be sold for far higher prices. Venezuelan President Nicolas ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - The recent wave of lootings and food riots in crisis-hit ... according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, a local monitoring group. Venezuela's political opposition ...

Earlier this week, Chavez nationalized a rice mill owned by giant U.S. food company ... Cola FEMSA de Venezuela SA to turn the area in the country's capital over to the local community within ...

Shoppers seeking scarce consumer staples including milk, rice and flour broke into a supermarket warehouse on Friday morning, leading businesses in the area to shut their doors, local newspaper ...