Susana Raffallinutritionist, food safety specialist and researcher of Caritas of Venezuelaspecified that “when they say that 6.5 million people in 2021 were in a situation of hunger, it is because the capacity of the State to guarantee food for the nation It is enough for only 22 million of the 28 that we are ».
He held in an interview with Cesar Miguel Rondon that in societies as unequal as the Venezuelan, “there are large population groups that they cannot eat the minimum even mortgaging their livelihoods».
“It is extraordinarily unfortunate to say that we have 6.5 million people who would stay without eating if the national pantry were distributed», he added.
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However, he said that despite the fact that the number of people who “suffer from hunger in Venezuela is very high and alarming, it has been improving, because in the previous three years there were more than 9 million people, and now there are 6.5 million.
“The figure of 6.5 million Venezuelans suffering from hunger is 3 times bigger than hungry people in South America“, accurate.
Raffalli commented that “we have what it takes to be the country with the richest food pantry on the continentso everything that is happening here is due to political decisions and a very precarious administration of the national food resource”.
«In Venezuela, there is a huge proportion of people who are eating the minimum necessary to maintain life, but not a healthy living condition», he alerted.
Likewise, he indicated that “the food purchasing power of the Venezuelan It’s three times less than the average cost of a healthy diet.”
