Harrowing images smuggled out of Venezuelan jail reveal emaciated prisoners left starving to death
The shocking video has emerged as the country is in the midst of a severe economic crisis
THESE are the the shocking images from inside a jail in Venezuela showing emaciated prisoners begging for help from the outside world after claiming that food and medicine have dried up.
A video smuggled out of a prison in San Juan de los Morros, in Guarico, shows men behind bars struggling to survive, amid economic collapse in the country.
One disturbing image depicts a man's skeletal frame who reportedly died from starvation and disease.
In the clip, another prisoner is so weak he had to be lifted into a chair to be filmed.
Other images show starving prisoners standing in line as they appeal for help.
The footage was reportedly filmed by prisoner Franklin Paul Hernandez Quezad.
One of the men pleads to the camera: "Look at me, look at the state we are in, we need medicine in order to survive."
Another inmate in a wheelchair also asks for medicine: "We are all human beings and we need a second chance."
Footage was taken from inside a jail at San Juan de los Morros, in the central Guarico region of Venezuela
"Please, don’t leave us to die in here, help us brothers," the third echoes. "We do not want to die".
The person recording the video says: "The media needs to know what is happening here".
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Local media said that Venezuelan police had apparently blocked deliveries of food, medicine and water to the prison in question.
This has caused outrage with prisoners’ relatives who reported the incident and who have asked the authorities to put a stop to it.
The economic crisis in Venezuela has already seen mass lootings and riots that has left people on the street struggling to survive with massive protests call for President Nicolas Maduro to resign.
The country's currency, the bolivar, has plummeted dramatically in the last couple of years making paying for food imports prohibitively expensive.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Venezuela is the world's worst-performing economy this year, with its economy expected to shrink 10 per cent this year and inflation could skyrocket over 700 per cent.
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