In this March 20, 2017 photo, a sign that reads in Spanish “No flour. No bread” hangs from an empty shelf at a privately owned bakery in Caracas, Venezuela. The most recent survey on living standards by three major universities found that 93 percent of Venezuelans at the end of last year said they didn't have enough money to buy food, scraping by instead by skipping meals and reducing calories. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this March 20, 2017 photo, a customer reads the new rules of a private bakery that was taken over by the government in Caracas, Venezuela. The goal of what President Nicolas Maduro has taken to calling the “bread war” is to enforce price controls that have become increasingly unwieldy amid triple-digit inflation and widespread shortages. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)





In this March 17, 2017 photo, a man hangs off of a bus clutching a bag of bread, outside a bakery in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela's Vice President Tareck El Aissami last week ordered the nation's bakeries to use 90 percent of their flour to produce “canilla”, a fast-fermenting, savory baguette and French bread. He also ordered every bakery have bread available for sale by 7 a.m. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Pedestrians look at shops looted the night before, in the El Valle neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 21, 2017. At least 12 people were killed overnight following looting and violence in Venezuela's capital amid a spiraling political crisis, authorities said Friday. Most of the deaths took place in El Valle, a working class neighborhood near Caracas' biggest military base where opposition leaders say a group of people were hit with an electrical current while trying to loot a bakery protected by an electric fence. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





An aunt of Eliannys Vivas collects money to pay a loan used for the funeral of Eliannys, who died from diphtheria, along a main street in Pariaguan, Venezuela January 26, 2017. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Volunteers of the Make The Difference (Haz La Diferencia) charity initiative serve cups of soup to be donated, at the home kitchen of one of the volunteers in Caracas, Venezuela March 5, 2017. According to a recent study by three Venezuelan universities, 93 percent of the OPEC nation's residents do not have enough money to buy sufficient food and 74 percent have lost around 18 pounds (8 kg) in the last year alone. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Lids with messages that read “soup with love” are seen at the home kitchen of a volunteer of Make The Difference (Haz La Diferencia) charity initiative, in Caracas, Venezuela March 5, 2017. Critics say 18 years of socialist rule, exacerbated by a fall in oil prices, are to blame for Venezuela's economic collapse. But President Nicolas Maduro says he is the victim of an “economic war” waged by the country's elite and the U.S. government. “If the bourgeoisie hide the food, I myself will bring it to your house. National production should go to the people in order to defeat the imperialist war”, Maduro said at an event this month to promote the distribution of subsidized food. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





A volunteer of Make The Difference (Haz La Diferencia) charity initiative gives a cup of soup and an arepa to a homeless child in a street of Caracas, Venezuela March 5, 2017. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





A worker looks for valuables among the damaged goods in a supermarket, after it was looted in Caracas, Venezuela April 21, 2017. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





People look at police officers and criminal investigators while they collect evidence in front of a bakery, after it was looted in Caracas, Venezuela April 21, 2017. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





In this November 14, 2016 photo, a youth uses his pillow as a bag to collect rice from the pavement that shook loose from a food cargo truck waiting to enter the port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the port that handles the majority of Venezuela's food imports. As millions of Venezuelans go hungry this year, food trafficking has become one of the most lucrative businesses in the country. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





In this March 17, 2017 photo, an employee of the Minka state-run bakery carries bags of bread to be distributed to state-run grocery stores in Caracas, Venezuela. Agents from the National Superintendent of Fair Prices raided Mansion’s Bakery last week and accused the owners of hoarding scarce sacks of government-imported flour, saying the subsidized goods should have been used to make price-regulated loaves but instead was turned into more expensive croissants and sweet rolls. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this March 20, 2017 photo, a militia member stands guard next to a poster of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, at a private bakery that was taken over by the government in Caracas, Venezuela. Within hours of the handover, the new storekeepers took down the Coca-Cola-sponsored sign outside and hung up photos of Maduro, Chavez and South American independence hero Simon Bolivar. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Women carrying babies queue as they try to buy diapers outside a pharmacy in Caracas, Venezuela March 18, 2017. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





A saleswoman holds bags of bread as she waits for customers at bakery in Caracas, Venezuela March 17, 2017. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Opposition demonstrators and riot police clash during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3, 2017. Venezuelan police fired tear gas and hooded protesters hurled Molotov cocktails as thousands rallied Wednesday in anger at President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution. At least one protester caught fire and two opposition lawmakers were among various people injured, AFP reporters at the scene said. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





Opposition demonstrators clash with Bolivarian Guard in Caracas, Venezuela, 03 May 2017. Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) used tear gas to keep opposition demonstrations from reaching the center of the Venezuelan capital. (Photo by Miguel Gutierrez/EPA)





An opposition activist throws a molotov cocktail at the police during clashes that erupted in a march against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held on May Day, in Caracas on May 1, 2017. Venezuela's beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro on Monday called for a new constitution, to be written by a “people's” body circumventing the opposition-held Congress. The decree was to “block the fascist coup” threatening the country, he told thousands of supporters in Caracas at a May Day rally. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





A Venezuelan opposition activist faces police agents during a march against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 1, 2017. Security forces in riot vans blocked off central Caracas Monday as Venezuela braced for pro- and anti-government May Day protests one month after a wave of deadly political unrest erupted. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





Friends and family of Juan Pablo Pernalete Llovera mourn his death at a funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, 29 April 2017. Pernaltete, a student, was killed during anti-government protests when he was struck by a tear gas canister fired by security forces. (Photo by Miguel Gutierrez/EPA)





Demonstrators clash with members of the Bolivarian National Police as protests continue in Caracas, Venezuela, 20 April 2017. The Bolivarian National Guard, using tear gas, tried to disperse protests against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Photo by Miguel Gutierrez/EPA)





Demonstrators scuffle with security forces during an opposition rally in Caracas, Venezuela, April 4, 2017. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





A Venezuelan opposition activist wearing a homemade gas mask takes cover behind a makeshift shield as clashes erupt with riot police during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 8, 2017. Venezuela's opposition mobilized Monday in fresh street protests against President Nicolas Maduro's efforts to reform the constitution in a deadly political crisis. Supporters of the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) gathered in eastern Caracas to march to the education ministry under the slogan “No to the dictatorship”. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





In this March 17, 2017 photo, employees of the Minka state-run bakery carry bags of cheap bread to be distributed to state-run grocery stores in Caracas, Venezuela. The government said it was taking over the Mansion’s Bakery for 90 days, turning control over to a pro-government neighborhood committee given the task of distributing bags of staples door-to-door. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this March 20, 2017 photo, a man eats bread after buying it at a private bakery in Caracas, Venezuela. In an attempt to control the production of subsidized bread, the government is carrying spot checks targeting some 700 bakeries, and authorities have even announced the arrest of two people for making illegal brownies. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





A woman reacts after riot police used pepper spray during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela on April 1, 2017. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)