Economists say years of economic mismanagement — worsened by low prices for oil, the nation’s main source of revenue — have shattered the Venezuelan food supply. Sugar fields in the country’s agricultural centre lie fallow for lack of fertilizers. Unused machinery rots in shuttered state-owned factories. Staples like corn and rice, once exported, now must be imported and arrive in amounts that do not meet the need.
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