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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2016 file 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. The calls by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to sanction Venezuelan officials for profiting from food shortages come in response to an Associated Press investigation that found trafficking in hard-to-find food has become big business in Venezuela, with the military at the heart of the graft. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File) (AP)

US lawmakers call for action on Venezuela food corruption

Hannah Dreier, Joshua Goodman
In this Nov. 18, 2016 photo, people wait outside a supermarket to buy government subsided food in Caracas, Venezuela. As domestic production dries up in Venezuela, the state has given itself the role of importing nearly all the country's food. (AP)

Venezuela’s military is trafficking food as the rest of the country goes hungry

Hannah Dreier, Joshua Goodman