Interview: How Bad Has Venezuela’s Malnutrition Problem Really Gotten?

Venezuela’s National Assembly is discussing the country’s nutrition situation. As an expert on the subject, what would you want to tell them? Venezuelan’s food and nutritional situation is deteriorating. It is not a new phenomenon: alarms have been running since 2012, when a fall in the consumption of basic foods, such as animal protein, especially milk, was beginning to show. By 2013, access to food led to widespread malnutrition problems, and cases of severe malnutrition began to be recorded More…