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Venezuelans starve as troops cooking into food
- Updated: December 29, 2016
In this Feb 2004 photo, a troops creates a fringe during a government-subsidised food marketplace in Caracas, Venezuela. Pic/AFP
Puerto Cabello: When craving drew tens of thousands of Venezuelans to a streets in criticism final summer, President Nicolas Maduro incited to a troops to conduct a country’s discontinued food supply, putting generals in assign of all from butter to rice. But instead of fighting hunger, a troops is creation income from it, an Associated Press review shows.
With many of a nation on a verge of starvation and billions of dollars during stake, food trafficking has turn one of a biggest businesses in Venezuela, a AP found. And from generals to feet soldiers, a troops is during a heart of a graft, according to papers and interviews with some-more than 60 officials, business owners and workers, including 5 former generals.
As a result, food is not reaching those who many need it. The US supervision has taken notice.
Prosecutors have non-stop investigations opposite comparison Venezuelan officials, including members of a military, for laundering cache from food contracts by a US financial system, according to 4 people with approach believe of a probes. No charges have been brought.