Ignacio Marin

Photojournalist / Fotoperiodista
   
Hunger Crimes
Location: Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: Freelance documentary photographer. Madrid and elsewhere. 
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Hunger Crimes
Copyright Ignacio Marin 2024
Date of Work Jun 2018 -
Updated Apr 2021
Topics Children, Corruption, Crime, Documentary, Editorial, Fear, Gangs, Hunger, Latin America, Militias, NGO, Photography, Photojournalism, Poverty, Prison, Soldiers, Venezuela, Violence


HUNGER CRIMES

In Venezuela, the collapse of the economy and the subsequent food shortages has lead to a new type of crime: hunger crime.

Out-of-control hyperinflation, measuring 1,000,000% in 2018, has meant prices doubling every week. Even employed people with steady jobs can’t afford to buy the most basic goods. The last Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI) reports that 89.4% of respondents said their household income was not enough to buy food and 61% reported sleeping hungry at night. A report this year from Cáritas found that the average family required 98 times the minimum wage to afford adequate food to subsist.

The epidemic of empty stomachs has unleashed a new wave of hunger-motivated crimes. The rise of these crimes has been tracked by NGOs such as the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence. In a country where virtually all crimes go unpunished and money is worth less than the paper it is printed on crime becomes a viable solution to hunger.

Fathers go out at night to steal motorcycles. Gangsters recruit youngsters by paying them in food. Crime and insecurity is on the rise. Robberies and kidnappings have become a major industry. The direct consequences are suffered on the streets: 1.368 people were killed in Caracas in 2018, according to Monitor de Victimas.

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Caracas, Venezuela
June 2018
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