Venezuela food shortages cause some to hunt dogs, cats ... Venezuela — Unemployed construction worker Roberto Sanchez could hear a time bomb ticking as he waited in line with 300 people ...

Related: Venezuela trades oil for food with Jamaica However, exports of a handful of basic foods did go up. U.S. corn exports to Venezuela rose to $239 million from $140 million last year.

To ease the shortages, Venezuela's government has quietly stopped enforcing some of its price controls on food in parts of Venezuela that border Colombia and Brazil where food is shipped in.

In Venezuela, bread, meat, milk and other staples are scarce these days. So Venezuela's government is urging urban slum dwellers to grow and raise their own food. But it's a challenge.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has unveiled an unusual strategy to help ease the chronic food shortage faced by many of his nation's 30 million people — something he calls Plan Conejo, or ...

Venezuela was once the richest country in South America, but food prices have skyrocketed in recent years, forcing many to scavenge for things to eat. The cost of basic groceries is now about five ...

Zoo animals in Venezuela are being stolen and eaten as the country sinks further into a food shortage crisis, local police have said.. The Zulia Metropolitan Zoological Park in the city of ...

Combating malnutrition and making food more affordable are pillars of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' socialist program. Food prices have soared, however, amid shortages of basic staples ...

Cáritas de Venezuela, an agency that helps the poor by donating food and medicine, found in April that 11% of children under 5 years old are acutely malnourished.

Venezuela lawmaker Diosdado Cabello presented a bill on Tuesday that would severely curtail the independence of non-governmental organizations, many of which are delivering humanitarian aid in the ...