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Jorge Escalante, 80, tends to the remaining cows at the once-confiscated San Luis ranch in Calabozo, Venezuela, on Sept. 30, 2015. The ranch, which was expropriated in 2008 by former President Hugo Chavez, had 400 cows then. It has not been in full operation since.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
Jorge Escalante works on a ranch that was once confiscated and partially returned to the owner by the Venezuelan government.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
Venezuelans are used to lining up to buy price-regulated food in Puerto Ordaz on Oct. 7, 2015. Food scarcity has become one of the greatest afflictions in Venezuelan life in recent years.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
Rice silos stand apparently idle in Sabeneta, Venezuela, the home town of former President Hugo Chavez on Oct. 2, 2015. The price of rice, as with many other staples, is controlled by the Venezuelan government and it hasn't been raised for two years despite inflation. In that time, rice has become increasingly scarce.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
Misael Leon rests after milking a cow on what's left of a large ranch he once managed near San Juan de los Morros for a Venezuelan landowner on Sept. 30, 2015. The ranch was one of many across Venezuela's agricultural region that was confiscated during and since the regime of President Hugo Chavez.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
A dog walks in front of a dry corn field in Guarico, Venezuela, on Oct. 1, 2015. The lack of rain and supplies for farmers are two factors in a recent decline in food production.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
Yiovany Quintero and his son Alejandro Quintero carry bags of garlic, freshly harvested from Quintero's field in Mucuchies, Venezuela, on Oct. 3, 2015.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
An abandoned greenhouse is left in disrepair--another instance of lost food production--in Guarico, Venezuela, on Oct. 1, 2015.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
A boy runs through a farm in Guarico, Venezuela, on Sept. 30, 2015. Over the past decade, the government has confiscated land from operators of large farms and split them among the local population. Many of the confiscated farms are no longer productive.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
A tractor is left abandoned on a farm confiscated by the Venezuelan government on Sept. 30, 2015.
Alejandro Cegarra
McClatchy
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