The Venezuelan economy has begun to reactivate. In supermarkets, which until recently had empty shelves, today you can find Pringles potatoes, Pantene shampoo and even Nutella.According to The New York Times, the reason for this change is the informal dollarization of the economy. Full Text-> QCostaRica

Traducción de cortesía -> La economía venezolana ha comenzado a reactivarse. En los supermercados, que hasta hace poco tenían los estantes vacíos, hoy se pueden encontrar papas Pringles, champú Pantene e incluso Nutella. Según The New York Times, el motivo de este cambio es la dolarización informal de la economía.

Cargill said on Tuesday it has agreed to sell its Venezuela unit to a group of investors represented by Phoenix Global Investment and local firm Grupo Puig. The sale affects all of Cargill’s activities in the country, including plants that produce flour, pasta, cooking oil, and animal feed, the company said in a statement. Full Text-> Nasdaq

An Iranian conglomerate owned by the country’s military and tied to its missile program has established a retail foothold in Venezuela, according to officials and records detailing the move, deepening Tehran’s involvement with the Maduro government. By Ian Talley and Benoit Faucon. Full Text -> The Wall Street Journal

Venezuela will receive another products cargo from Italy next week, highlighting the endurance of debt-related oil trade with EU companies that falls outside the scope of escalating US sanctions on Caracas. Full Text-> Argus Media

Yuraima Mercado, a member of the Program’s logistics, told Global Voices that following the closure of businesses and restaurants, as part of the social isolation measures, some restaurants were left with a significant amount of food that they weren’t able to sell. The Program’s founder, Verónica Gómez, who knows some of the representatives of these restaurants, set up a project that would make it possible to distribute this food to the elderly. By Sabrina Velandia. Full Text -> Global Voices

Venezuela’s government is employing harsher measures in one of Caracas’ largest barrios to ensure residents comply with a coronavirus quarantine, as many poor Venezuelans continue to head outside in search of scarce food and water. By Reuters. Full text -> The New York Times

A new kind of store called a Bodegon has sprung up in Venezuela. These exist side by side with traditional supermarkets and bodegas in that country. These bodegones are of a similar size to a regular (mini)supermarket. Many of these bodegones are, however, getting bigger. Bodegones only offer imported goods. Most of these are products that come in from the United States and Europe. Full text -> FreshPlaza

Roadblocks across Venezuela snarled the transportation of goods on Tuesday and businesses in the capital Caracas reported that food deliveries failed to arrive, in signs that a national coronavirus quarantine could worsen a humanitarian crisis. By Angus Berwick, Brian Ellsworth and Vivian Sequera. Full text-> Yahoo Sports

Venezuelan citrus farmer Carlos Romero for years struggled to find the fertilizers and pesticides he needed to keep his fruit trees healthy amid chronic product shortages, or was unable to afford them because of hyperinflation. By Vivian Sequera, Mircely Guanipa. Full text -> Reuters