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BARE SHELVES: As food becomes scare in stores, some turn to looting warehouses, leaving even less for store shelves.
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SQUEEZED in between the mountains in north central Venezuela, not far from the Caribbean Sea, lies a green valley, rich with sugarcane. These fields used to produce a reliable cash crop for the villagers of Tocorón. Now, however, food is scarce, and some are forced to eat what they grow, even though it has almost no nutritional value. “Much has changed!” says Ramona Bolívar, a resident, as she stands in her backyard, chewing a piece of cane.