Farmer Miguel Wawrzyniak, 19, fills up a tank with diesel, in Turen, Venezuela May 11, 2021. Picture taken May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
TUREN, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan farmer Agustin Zenere should have been planting corn by the second week of May - a crucial task in the economically devastated South American country where 7 million people are food insecure.
Instead, his 30-hectare (74-acre) plot of land in the breadbasket town of Turen was still covered with the brown, shriveled leaves of a sesame crop he could not harvest in time because the government had not given him enough diesel to run his tractors.
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