TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 5月11日 00時17分

Miguel Blanco's slum neighborhood in #Maracaibo, Venezuela's second city, has always been poor. But since a severe economic crisis began around five years ago, writes Jorge Benezra, it has slipped into desperation and malnutrition. Blanco, 28, photographed with his mother and a community activist in El Barrio Altos de Milagro Norte in Maracaibo in April, has a neurological condition and suffers from extreme malnutrition. He weighs just 66 lbs. (30 kg.), his skin looking like it sticks to his bones, his muscles all but wasted away. #Venezuela remains far from famine, but food shortages are so persistent that the average resident lost 24 lbs. (nearly 11 kg.) in 2017, and malnutrition—a shortfall in calories and essential nutrients—is a growing concern, especially because it increases the risk of infectious disease. Those who struggled for health in normal times have been most vulnerable to the country’s dysfunction. Essential medicines are, like food, have been difficult to find or afford for years now. @unicef says 7 million Venezuelans, including 3.2 million children, are in need of assistance. “We are watching our people die,” says Carolina Leal, the community activist. Read more, and see more pictures, at the link in bio. Photograph by @alvaroybarrazavala—@gettyreportage

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