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Disappointment is etched on the face of Maria Ponte as she exits a butcher’s shop in Petare, the Venezuelan capital’s largest slum. She had gone there in hopes that prices may have somehow plummeted and allowed her to eat meat for the first time this year. But even though the store’s refrigerators were filled, the woman walked out carrying only several kilos of chicken skin that she will use to make her own oil for frying eggs and arepas, a corn cake that is a staple food in Venezuela. By Ron Gonzalez. Full Text ->LaPrensaLatina
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