‘Socialist experiment’ Venezuela in ruins as soldiers delete videos of 12-hour food queues

A BBC journalist, who attempted to film the crisis, was stopped and forced by soldiers to delete footage of a protest outside a supermarket as desperate Venezuelans waited for food.

 

Baying crowds shouted “We want to buy stuff!” as they grouped outside the store in the country’s capital, Caracas.

 

BBC journalist Vladimir Hernandez reports that many people approached him to say they had queued for 12 hours without being able to buy what they wanted.

 

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