Venezuela's food prices skyrocket as people go hungry by Patrick Gillespie and Osmary Hernandez @CNNMoney October 21, 2016: 9:21 AM ET Venezuelans cross into Colombia to get food ...

One Venezuelan spent hours on Tuesday morning in Caracas waiting for a grocery store to open, hoping to buy food. The 60-year old man, who declined to give his name, wasn't hopeful he'd be able to ...

Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela — Carmen Salas, a mother of three in the working-class southern reaches of this anxious capital, wandered through the vast produce market known as Coche ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela is so short on food that tens of thousands are going hungry or even starving. Its murder rate is among the highest in the world. Its economy is so crippled that ...

Desperation grows as food, medicines become scarce in the cash-strapped country. CARACAS, Venezuela— -- In Venezuela's hospitals, the chaos starts early, as every day is a struggle for ...

Caracas, Venezuela – Venezuela’s most recent initiative to deal with the widespread food shortages? Some 9,000 “committees” across the country made up of government loyalists are now ...

The combination of Venezuela’s sky-rocketing prices and chronic product shortages have left many struggling to put regular food on their tables to maintain a balanced diet. Take a look at what ...

In this Nov. 1, 2016 photo, new government cargo trucks used to transport imported food wait outside the entrance of the Laramar warehouse in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the port city where the ...

Fifty-five percent of the people lived in poverty, and the country imported 70 percent of its food. Since those early days, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has reduced the number of ...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez is turning his populist government into Venezuela's biggest grocer. This week, the leftist ex-paratrooper inaugurated the first three of a planned 100 ...

As many as 40 percent of teachers skip class on any given day to wait in food lines that snake through Caracas like spider veins, according to the Venezuela Teacher's Federation.