Desperate fishermen slaughter one another and turn to piracy while starving villages are forced to eat soup made from sea water as Venezuela’s economic collapse worsens

Thursday, December 8, 2016
By Paul Martin

Dozens of fisherman have been killed by pirates as the economic crisis deepens
Once home to the world’s fourth-largest tuna fleet, the country’s fishing trade has now collapsed
Punta de Araya families got through the summer by eating ‘dog soup,’ a broth made from seawater and the small fish that are usually thrown back

DailyMail.com
8 December 2016

Gangs of out-of-work fishermen have turned to a life of piracy and have killed dozens who still venture into the sea in Venezuela, as the country’s economic crisis worsens.

Once home to the world’s fourth-largest tuna fleet, now the fishing trade has collapsed and those who continue to fish are falling prey to the vicious bandits.

Many have been tied up and thrown overboard by pirates, as those with boats opt for illegal ways of making money, such as smuggling and piracy.

Robberies on the sea have happened daily, leaving scores of fishermen dead.

‘People can’t make a living fishing anymore, so they’re using their boats for the options that remain: smuggling gas, running drugs and piracy,’ said Jose Antonio Garcia, leader of the state’s largest union.
Teenager Flaco Marval has lost a brother and two cousins to pirates, and has been told they were coming for the rest of the family.

The skinny 17-year-old and his relatives ran to grab the guns they’d soldered together from kitchen pipes, smoked an acrid-smelling drug to boost their energy, and went out into the night to patrol the sandy village streets.

He said: ‘We just have to kill these thugs, and then we can go back to fishing like we always did.’

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