As Venezuela spirals deeper into crisis, its people are facing desperate times as inflation makes the bolivar almost worthless and shortages of everything form staple foods to nappies forces many to smuggle in basic necessities from neighbouring Colombia.
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A boy gives a packet of toilet paper, made in Colombia, to a customer at a stall in a market in La Fria, Venezuela. Around the crisis-hit nation of 30-million inflation is making staple items more like a luxury purchase. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
Staple items and hygiene products, most smuggled in from Colombia, at a stall next to a road in Boca del Grita, Venezuela. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A pack of toilet paper costs a thick wad of Venezuelan bolivars nowadays. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A boy puts packets of corn flour made in Colombia in a plastic bag at a market in La Fria. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A man weighs milk powder made in Colombia in La Fria, Venezuela. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A man carries stacks of Venezuelan bolivar notes as he crosses home from Colombia in a canoe to Boca del Grita in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans are forced to visit Colombia to buy basics and smuggle them home as the Venezuelan economic collapse leaves chronic shortages. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A man crosses to Boca del Grita in Venezuela after a desperate trip to buy basic goods in Puerto Santander, Colombia. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A Venezuelan woman looks for tyres at a stall in Puerto Santander, Colombia. The Venezuelan collapse has left shortages of everything in the country. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A man uses a machine to count Venezuelan bolivar notes at a store in Puerto Santander. Inflation has left the currency almost worthless. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
A woman tries to reach a package of nappies at a store in Puerto Santander, Colombia. Venezeulans are being forced to travel to buy basic goods. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
Women holding thick bundles of Venezuelan bolivar notes in front of a store in Puerto Santander. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
People carry goods past soldiers as they disembark from a boat at Boca del Grita in Venezuela after crossing the border from Colombia. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
Staple items and hygiene products, most smuggled in from Colombia, are seen at a stall next to a road in Boca del Grita, Venezuela. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters -
People wait their turn to cross to Boca del Grita in Venezuela from Puerto Santander, Colombia, carrying goods they desperately need and struggle to get at home. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Venezuelans’ fight for survival amid economic meltdown – in pictures
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