© Federico Parra. A woman shows her line number as people queue outside of a store to buy home appliances at a preferential price in Caracas on November 25, 2014.

Hunger: A visual essay. Venezuela, 2014

A woman shows her line number as people queue outside of a store to buy home appliances at a preferential price in Caracas on November 25, 2014.

© Federico Parra. People queue up to buy food and basic household items in a supermarket at the Petare neighborhood in Caracas on July 16, 2016. The Venezuelan military began overseeing food distribution at ports, airports and businesses as part of a plan by President Nicolas Maduro to alleviate acute shortages plaguing the country.

Hunger: A visual essay. Venezuela, 2016

People queue up to buy food and basic household items in a supermarket at the Petare neighborhood in Caracas on July 16, 2016. The Venezuelan military began overseeing food distribution at ports, airports and businesses as part of a plan by President Nicolas Maduro to alleviate acute shortages plaguing the country.

© Federico Parra. People queue to buy basic food and household items outside a supermarket in Caracas, on June 7, 2016. Maduro launched a program to combat the black-market resale of subsidized food and crippling shortages. He says the food shortages are being artificially created by a business elite bent on destroying Venezuela's socialist economic model and forcing him from power.

Hunger: A visual essay. Venezuela, 2016

People queue to buy basic food and household items outside a supermarket in Caracas, on June 7, 2016. Maduro launched a program to combat the black-market resale of subsidized food and crippling shortages. He says the food shortages are being artificially created by a business elite bent on destroying Venezuela's socialist economic model and forcing him from power.

© Federico Parra. Children pray before eating at a shanty town in Higuerote, 117 km east of Caracas on August 26, 2016. As part of a volunteer program, thousands of Venezuelan children receive their school meals during holidays in an initiative to address food shortages affecting the country.

Hunger: A visual essay. Venezuela, 2016

Children pray before eating at a shanty town in Higuerote, 117 km east of Caracas on August 26, 2016. As part of a volunteer program, thousands of Venezuelan children receive their school meals during holidays in an initiative to address food shortages affecting the country.

© Federico Parra. People shout slogans during a protest against the shortage of food on Fuerzas Armadas avenue in Caracas on December 28, 2017. As Venezuelans protest in Caracas demanding the government's promised pork-the main dish of the Christmas and New Year's dinner-President Nicolas Maduro attributes the shortage to international sabotage.

Hunger: A visual essay. Venezuela, 2017

People shout slogans during a protest against the shortage of food on Fuerzas Armadas avenue in Caracas on December 28, 2017. As Venezuelans protest in Caracas demanding the government's promised pork-the main dish of the Christmas and New Year's dinner-President Nicolas Maduro attributes the shortage to international sabotage.

© Federico Parra. People scavenge for food in the streets of Caracas on February 22, 2017. Venezuelan The opposition blames Nicolas Maduro for an economic crisis that has caused food shortages.

Hunger: A visual essay. Venezuela, 2017

People scavenge for food in the streets of Caracas on February 22, 2017. Venezuelan The opposition blames Nicolas Maduro for an economic crisis that has caused food shortages.

© Federico Parra. A girl scavanges for food in the streets of Caracas on February 22, 2017. Public hospital doctors declared that hunger is killing Venezuelan children at an alarming rate.

Hunger: A visual essay. Venezuela, 2017

A girl scavenges for food in the streets of Caracas on February 22, 2017. Public hospital doctors declared that hunger is killing Venezuelan children at an alarming rate.