The raw report of a British journalist in Venezuela who shows children looking for food in landfills

A journalist from News from the sky visited the city of Maracaibo and witnessed the harsh reality that Venezuelans face daily: poverty, scarcity and hunger. The first story is that of a boy who goes to the garbage dump everyday to look for food. Then he tells the problems generated by the water cuts. Finally, it shows how a single mother from a rural area is coping with the crisis.

Juan's father, aged 11, emigrated to Colombia; his mother, in Peru, and to survive, he has to go to a garbage dump every day to get food. His story reflects the reality of many children in Venezuela.

More than 61% of Venezuelans went to live in extreme poverty and reported losing more than 10 kilograms in 2017, according to the Survey of Living Conditions (Encovi) conducted each year by leading universities in the country. country and the month was published. past

Juan has become an expert who searches garbage cans, looking for a food or other valuable item that can be used to buy food. Beside him, a group of children and adults do the same.

Nail Survey of living conditions in Venezuela(Encovi) revealed that 82% of Venezuelan households live in poverty and have become the "poorest in Latin America". This percentage is thought to have increased in the last year.

The United Nations estimated that 2 million people will leave Venezuela this year, to reach the more than 3 million emigrants already scattered in South America.

The reporter notes that the boy found a bag containing leftover food. At this moment, the group throws itself on it. There is so much putrefaction, heat and flies that the British journalist can not see what he eats.

The rapporteur says that in Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves in the world, its citizens should live comfortably. And he baderts that the poorest, who were the base on which Chavismo was born, no longer support, for the most part, the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

According to some surveys, Support for the dictator is about 18%. Some badysts say this number could be even lower.

"Are those who suffer from hunger able to bring about change in their country? Unfortunately and cruelly, this is probably not the case," a question that becomes a journalist and herself.

There is also the story of Erika, who lives in a rural area on the outskirts of Maracaibo with her three children. She raises them alone because her husband died four months ago.

Every day, he goes to the center of Maracaibo where he sells small cups of coffee. What she collects, which does not exceed the US dollar, is used to buy a yucca (cbadava) and a banana to feed and feed her three children. It's the only food of the day that they eat.