Toothpaste, deodorant, baking flour tortillas (AREP) and medications are just a few of the names that thousands of Venezuelans from Miami are sent to their relatives in Venezuela because of the acute food crisis in this South American country.
“In Venezuela there is a shortage of food, and if something fails to purchase, not government prices. You have to buy from the speculators and pay them three times,” said Patricia Sandoval is a Venezuelan immigrant who has lived in Miami for over ten years.
Sandoval sent through a delivery service box with banks of canned tuna, rice, beans, coffee, ham and toilet paper to his brother, who lives in the province of Maturin. There to get something even harder than in the capital Caracas, where her sister.
“My brother called us and complained that the money never reach, and to buy something, it’s almost impossible,” shared Sandoval, spending $ 300 on the contents of the parcel and $ 56 for delivery.
Just as Sandoval of thousands of Venezuelans who had sent the electronics are now forced to send food and Essentials, in 200 courier companies located in Florida, says the activist Jose Colin the leader of the group “Venezuelans persecuted for political reasons in exile” (Veppex).
