Teachers cut class to peddle flowers and shoes on the streets. Thousands of farmers lost their lands to bank repossession. The number of billionaires fell from 24 to 10. Crime in the sprawling capital soared to the highest rates in history. We don't know what to do.
Milk is too costly.
Beans are hard to get. Cooking oil long ago went up 40 percent. People simply buy less, she said, citing genuine hunger in the region. Everybody talks about it all the time, every day. Yet the talk isn't bad for quite everyone.