July 25, 2024

Diesel shortages paralyze Venezuelan farms, prompting sanctions debate

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Venezuelan farmer Agustin Zenere should have been planting corn by the second week of May – a crucial task in the economically devastated South American country where 7 million people are food insecure. Instead, his 30-hectare (74-acre) plot of land in the breadbasket town of Turen was still covered with the brown, shriveled leaves of a sesame crop he could not harvest in time because the government had not given him enough diesel to run his tractors. By Luc Cohen and Keren Torres. Full Text -> ReginaLiderPost

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