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Venezuela food trafficking

A man collects rice that fell from a cargo truck waiting to enter the port and refill in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on Nov. 14, 2016. At the ports, food sometimes rots even as 90 percent of Venezuelans say they can't afford enough to eat.

A man collects rice that fell from a cargo truck waiting to enter the port and refill in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on Nov. 14, 2016. At the ports, food sometimes rots even as 90 percent of Venezuelans say they can’t afford enough to eat.

  (Ariana Cubillos / AP)

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Food trafficking has become big business in Venezuela as much of the country is on the verge of starvation — and the military is at the heart of the graft.

Protest

A woman kicks National Guard soldiers’ shields during a protest demanding food, near Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 2, 2016.

  (Ariana Cubillos / AP)

Collecting rice

A youth uses his pillowcase as a bag to collect rice that shook loose from a food cargo truck waiting to enter the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on Nov. 14, 2016. As millions of Venezuelans go hungry this year, food trafficking has become one of the most lucrative businesses in the country.

  (Ariana Cubillos / AP)

Truck driver

A truck driver rests on his hammock under his truck as he waits to enter the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on Nov. 14, 2016.

  (Ariana Cubillos / AP)

Empty food truck

Young men climb into an empty food truck on Nov. 14, 2016, in search of leftover grain as the vehicle comes to a stop outside the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. The port city handles the majority of Venezuela’s food imports.

  (Ariana Cubillos / AP)

Cargo trucks

Government cargo trucks used to transport imported food wait outside the entrance of the Laramar warehouse in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on Nov. 1, 2016.

  (Ariana Cubillos / AP)

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