Quarantine threatens to deepen Venezuelan crisis as roadblocks snarl food supplies

People queue in front of a supermarket during the first day of a national quarantine in response to the spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Caracas, Venezuela March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero

CARACAS (Reuters) - Roadblocks across Venezuela snarled the transportation of goods on Tuesday and businesses in the capital Caracas reported that food deliveries failed to arrive, in signs that a national coronavirus quarantine could worsen a humanitarian crisis.

President Nicolas Maduro on Monday expanded a limited quarantine to the whole of the South American nation, which has been hit by U.S. sanctions, after detecting 16 new cases of coronavirus for a total of 33.