Air freight is $7 per pound, and generally is only used for urgent, smaller packages, such as prescription medicines. Cut off and forgottenThe growing isolation of the Paraguana peninsula is another consequence of the breakdown of infrastructure in Venezuela. Leaders of the Maduro regime have said the Venezuelan exodus is a "fashion" and that refugees are leaving for reasons of "status" rather than hunger. "I want to help my Mom, I want to help my friends, I want to help everybody. Sarfatti said Venezuela's government has been using the malnutrition crisis in the country to deepen its social control of the population.

Source: CBC News September 12, 2018 22:01 UTC