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Venezuelan families scavenge for food to survive hunger

by Lucia Newman

Venezuela’s prolonged and acute economic crisis – characterized by food shortages and hyperinflation – has seen infant mortality rise to almost 35 percent and maternal mortality to 65 percent in just the last year and anemia is rampant.

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