With Venezuela In Chaos, Mangoes Are Unsung Heroes
The years-long crisis is boiling over, and food is in short supply. For many hungry Venezuelans, the high-fiber mango helps fill an empty, rumbling stomach.
During these troubled times in Venezuela, the mango has a new identity.
"We call them 'the noise takers' because they calm down the noise that our stomachs make when we are hungry," says Danilson Hernández, who manages a modest business that upholsters vehicles in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
And there are a lot of hungry people in crisis-ridden Venezuela. Nearly 90 percent of families don't earn enough money to buy the food they need, according to the latest Life Conditions National Survey, run annually by college professors.
Hernandez, who's in his late forties, eats a couple of mangoes for breakfast almost every
