date:Jun 12, 2016
While children have always climbed trees to pick mangoes, now workers and parents are also lining up to do so, in face of the worsening food shortages being experienced in Venezuela.
Facing Soviet-style food lines for increasingly scarce products at supermarkets, more and more people are turning to the South American nation's lush mango, coconut and papaya trees.
Around the crisis-hit nation of 30 million, people are consuming more starch and less protein. Many say they cannot afford three mea