Skyrocketing food prices forcing difficult choices on Venezuelans

[naaman fletcher]

Wire Services: Soaring food prices are forcing many Venezuelans to change their eating habits, trim their shopping lists and set aside more of their earnings to feed their families.
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The poor have been particularly hard-hit. Villasmil said that official figures show the poorest one-fourth of Venezuelans now spend 45 percent of their income on food.
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He also has regularly raised the minimum wage, though government figures show that the average Venezuelan's buying power has shrunk 14.5 percent in the past four years.

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