To combat hunger, Venezuelans in the U.S. ship food to relatives

[Zorro]

While video chatting with relatives in Venezuela, Tere Caicedo watched as they opened a package she had sent them stuffed with clothes, shoes and a large bag of oatmeal.

The bag had ripped during transport, spilling oatmeal all over. Caicedo, a Santa Ana resident who cleans houses for a living, told her relatives not to worry. She would send more.

But her uncle carefully picked out the package’s contents, flipped the box over and dumped the oatmeal into a bowl.

“No,” he told her. “This is food. We can’t just throw it away.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-fg-venezuela-food-20171022-story.html

[GatoGordo]

1. Good luck getting anything delivered

The vast majority of packages we send have been disappearing in customs. It makes it to VZ, but gets stolen by Chavista jobsworths before it can be delivered.