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U.S. targets graft in Venezuela''s flagship food box program

Federal prosecutors unveiled criminal charges against an alleged corruption ring to profit from lucrative contracts to import food and medicine to Venezuela.

Asamblea Nacional

Diputados disertan sobre sanciones contra Venezuela y nuevo momento político Fecha: 06/05/2026

Susana Raffalli: Food Bags Won''t Solve Venezuela''s Humanitarian

In 2016, the government of Nicolás Maduro created the Local Committees for Supply and Production (CLAP) to distribute boxes and bags as a response to food shortages in the country.

National Assembly of Venezuela

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Any Venezuelan citizen by birth or naturalization, with at least fifteen years of residence in Venezuelan territory, who is 21 years of age or older, is eligible to be elected as a deputy to the National Assembly. However, the same person cannot hold the office of President or Vice President of the Republic, Minister, Secretary of the Presidency, or hold senior positions in Autonomous Institutes or State-owned companies, until three months after leaving these positions. Additionally, state governors, secretaries o

Venezuela VP: CLAPs Distributed 132 Million Food Boxes in 2024

The program consists in directly delivering food boxes every month to Venezuelan households, in coordination with communal councils. In 2019, the US government launched a battery

Venezuela: What happened to the CLAP boxes?

Criticism of the opposition and a large sector of the Venezuelan population consists of a parallel distribution system with an adverse effect to which the government estimated. Since its

Treasury Disrupts Corruption Network Stealing From Venezuela''s

The company has a warehouse that was used to receive food from different suppliers and assemble the food into boxes that were shipped from Mexico and sold in Venezuela as a part of the

Venezuela crisis: Vast corruption network in food programme, US says

The Local Committees for Supply and Production scheme, known by its Spanish acronym Clap, was created by the Maduro government in 2016 to distribute food boxes at subsidised prices.

National Assembly of Venezuela

Any Venezuelan citizen by birth or naturalization, with at least fifteen years of residence in Venezuelan territory, who is 21 years of age or older, is eligible to be elected as a deputy to the National Assembly.

As Venezuelans go hungry, Trump targets food corruption

In testimony to police obtained by the AP, the owner of a Colombian company said he was hired by another firm to assemble and ship the boxes to Venezuela''s Corporation of Foreign Trade, or

Venezuela crisis: Vast corruption network in food

The Local Committees for Supply and Production scheme, known by its Spanish acronym Clap, was created by the Maduro government in 2016 to

National Assembly of Venezuela explained

The National Assembly (es|Asamblea Nacional) is the federal legislature of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which was first elected in 2000 under the 1999 constitution.