Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) The red brick slum trips down the hillsides of eastern Caracas, and stumbles to a halt at a highway that separates the poor from the rest of Venezuela's capital. Halfway down, in a makeshift church, about 30 children sit with their noses to the edge of wooden tables. But its people are going hungry, putting pressure on a demographic that was once fiercely loyal to the Chavez and then Maduro regimes. "We need medicine, we need food because they broke the system," says Angel Alvarrez, the National Assembly representative for the Petare area, referring to embattled President Nicolas Maduro's regime. His gambit will test Maduro's relationship with the military, forcing soldiers at the border to choose between food and loyalty to him.

Source: CNN February 09, 2019 13:41 UTC