Related: Venezuela trades oil for food with Jamaica. However, exports of a handful of basic foods did go up. U.S. corn exports to Venezuela rose to $239 million from $140 million last year.

When Ramirez, 37, went to get a late night snack on Friday, he found nothing in the refrigerator. So Sunday, the couple donned their nicest clothes and hid fat wads of bills in their bags.

Venezuela's food prices skyrocket as people go hungry. by Patrick Gillespie and Osmary Hernandez @CNNMoney October 21, 2016: 9:21 AM ET . Venezuelans cross into Colombia to get food.

Oil-exporting Venezuela became dependent on food imports, but when the price of oil collapsed in 2014, the government no longer could afford all the country needed. RELATED: ...

LA VICTORIA, VENEZUELA – I am surrounded by a sea of salt, and I’m not even at the beach. The supermarket in this city of 150,000 souls where I do most of my shopping has filled up nearly an ...

What makes Venezuela’s food crisis all the more grim is that experts agree it is a result of human decision-making. “It’s not due to droughts, or floods,” Deborah Hines, the World Food ...