People who weighed 75 kilos in the last two years say they have lost 16. By necessity they venture with relatives to launch an old net that they drag about 100 meters, battling with a muddy surface.
Some say things like: "Today we can be here and tomorrow we can be in the bush looking for rabbits or iguanas." Their emaciated faces make them look older.
They have taken fish that can reach 30 centimeters in previous years, but today some barely measure eight.
Some others were comfortable with their salary as a mason or welder in oil regions such as Zulia, which once swam in wealth. Before the salary gave to eat, to save, to make arrangements, today barely to eat badly.
But with an economy reduced by half since 2014 and an inflation projected by the IMF at 10,000,000% for this year, employment is scarce and there is no pocket to endure.
That's why it depends on "marañitas" (occasional jobs).
Familas fishing in San Francisco, neighboring municipality of Maracaibo, whose coasts are covered by constant oil spills, the black gold that abounds in Venezuela as in no other country.
They do not know if that (the fish agujones) ate or not, but due to the situation, they have risked, or to solve something, they eat it.
On a nearby beach a group of children and young apprentices also fish. The hunting of pigeons, rabbits, béquiros or deer, before a diversion, is now carried out due to the impossibility of visiting the butcher shops due to the high prices, residents say.
"All in dollars"
Many walk among desolate streets of the center of Maracaibo, days after the blackout of March 7, the worst that Venezuela has ever experienced. Five days of darkness sowed chaos in which half a thousand businesses were looted in Zulia state (west).
Some say: "Now I have nothing to eat."
Gaining minimum wage, equivalent to six dollars that reach two kilos of meat. "It is not possible for one to live like this, many have to put on dirty clothes because they do not have water or it is not enough to buy detergent.
But the biggest burden of all is the lack of food. Very thin, they even try to help with the feeding of large families, an almost impossible task.
"If they are selling something, it's very expensive, rice, flour, so now they want to sell it for dollars, it can not be, where will I find dollars?"
The looting worsened the difficulties that already suffered, because most shops are closed.
"The clothes do not fit the Venezuelan on foot". What they can achieve is for the children. They go to bed thinking about God doing a miracle. "
"Hunger gives me a headache"
Walkers and citizens contemplate a row of shops closed in the once thriving commercial heart of Maracaibo.
The loneliness in the streets is something daily, "Many complain and exclaim that hunger gives them a headache", "Hunger knocks you down".
Many have to go out and find who can give them food.
"I feel bad because he has never seen me in this, everything is chaotic."
