These are the people who already walked out of Venezuela, where long-running economic woes are being exacerbated by a major political fight. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)All of this makes food political. And she simply has more to say, including that food has always been political in Venezuela and is especially so now. The CLAP bags of food are smaller than they used to be, and contain a smaller variety of food products. That seems a hard statement to prove until you meet someone like the woman CBC News encountered a few days after the monthly bags of food were scheduled to arrive.

Source: CBC News February 08, 2019 09:33 UTC