The night he was killed, Keiber Cubero was not robbing a bank but a restaurant. After breaking in, Keiber walked past the cash register and went directly to the cold store. He was not looking for money, but for food. In Venezuela, five years of economic crisis have meant that money is worth less than the paper on which it is printed and 9 out of 10 households claim they do not have enough money for the weekly shopping. According to Caritas, in July 2018, a family needed 98 times the minimum wage to be able to buy basic foodstuffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The anxiety produced by the empty fridges and stomachs has sparked a new wave of hunger driven crimes according to the Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia (OVV) foundation. In a country where impunity is virtually the rule, many resort to petty crime to put some food on the table. Fathers go out at night to steal cars. Teenagers join criminal gangs. Insecurity is already part of daily life. The direct consequences are felt in the street: more than 1200 people \u2013 some 40 per day \u2013 died violently in Caracas between January and October of this year, according to the Monitor de V\u00edctimas project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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