Maritza Díaz, a 72-year-old homemaker,
gapes at the prices of the products on display at La Limpia market in
Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city. She’s sad, shocked, scandalized. She
doesn’t understand why a kilo of cheese — about 2.2 pounds — costs 200,000
bolivars on this day in mid-December, or about $2.20 at current exchange rates.
Just two weeks ago, it cost less than $1. The price of food in stores in
Venezuela is doubling in a matter of days, even hours. Coffee, bread, sugar,
spices — everything is going up amid the country’s crushing hyperinflation.
That means Díaz and her extended family don’t have enough money to buy the
ingredients of Venezuela’s most traditional Christmas dish: hallacas. More… 
Friday, December 15, 2017
A homemade Christmas dish is the latest casualty of Venezuela’s economic crisis
Maritza Díaz, a 72-year-old homemaker,
gapes at the prices of the products on display at La Limpia market in
Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city. She’s sad, shocked, scandalized. She
doesn’t understand why a kilo of cheese — about 2.2 pounds — costs 200,000
bolivars on this day in mid-December, or about $2.20 at current exchange rates.
Just two weeks ago, it cost less than $1. The price of food in stores in
Venezuela is doubling in a matter of days, even hours. Coffee, bread, sugar,
spices — everything is going up amid the country’s crushing hyperinflation.
That means Díaz and her extended family don’t have enough money to buy the
ingredients of Venezuela’s most traditional Christmas dish: hallacas. More… 
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