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Venezuelans Sort Through Trash as Hunger Mounts

(8 Jun 2016) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4039305 EACH DAY, AT DUSK, THE UNEMPLOYED CONVERGE ON THIS SIDEWALK TRASH HEAP IN DOWNTOWN CARACAS -- PICKING THROUGH ROTTEN FRUIT AND VEGETABLES TOSSED OUT BY NEARBY SHOPS. BUT IT'S NOT JUST THE JOBLESS THAT SEARCH THROUGH GARBAGE FOR FOOD. THEY'RE JOINED BY MANY WHO STILL CONSIDER THEMSELVES PART OF VENEZUELA'S MIDDLE-CLASS... EVEN THOUGH THEIR LIVING STANDARDS HAVE LONG DECLINED -- PULVERIZED BY TRIPLE-DIGIT INFLATION, FOOD SHORTAGES AND A COLLAPSING CURRENCY. 19-YEAR-OLD JHOSRIANA CAPOTE COMES TO THIS TRASH HEAP TO HELP SUPPLEMENT HER PANTRY. SHE RECENTLY COMPLETED AN INTERNSHIP WITH COCA-COLA. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jhosriana Capote, student ++VOICE OF TRANSLATOR++: "In Venezuela the situation is very difficult. Before, you could get food but not now. You wait for hours in a line and you don't get anything. So it leads us to come here to see if we can get even a small quantity to be able to eat." WHILE SOME COME TO THE TRASH PILES TO EAT, MANY MORE SEEK THE OPPORTUNITY TO EARN SOME CASH DURING TOUGH TIMES -- RESELLING PASSABLE PRODUCE. VENEZUELA'S POVERTY HAD EASED UNDER THE RULE OF THE LATE PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ. BUT IT'S ONCE AGAIN ON THE RISE. AND SO-CALLED DUMPSTER-DIVING HAS GROWN TO BE A COMMON PRACTICE. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Santos Rodriguez, unemployed Caracas resident ++VOICE OF TRANSLATOR++: "I'm doing this due to the need we are facing in our country. Never, not ever, was this seen before. When (Hugo) Chavez was alive, we had never seen this need that we are going through. We go hungry." NEARLY HALF OF VENEZUELANS SAY THEY CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO EAT THREE MEALS A DAY. WHILE THE GOVERNMENT BLAMES POLITICAL OPPOSITION OF WAGING AN 'ECONOMIC WAR', THOSE CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE DO WHAT THEY CAN TO MAKE ENDS MEET. NOREEN NASIR, ASSOCIATED PRESS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...