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venezuela's dark lurch into poverty and chaos is on display as we drive into the capital this food truck breaking down for mere seconds before it was looted basic food is scarce no shortage of bleach but long lines for bread this crisis all created by the mad policies of a government that now wants to hide the collapse cracking down on and intimidating journalists we had to go undercover and much of our filming was done covertly to avoid arrest with some poor nearing starvation the people demand change in violent clashes tens of lives lost this desperation meet tear gas and police birdshot you've heard of the Molotov cocktail well that will be too simple for a once suave gas rich state so this is the pocket of a sewage pump well you know your money yet mixed with gas and ammonia success prepared directly for the police that throw tear gas bombs at us worth $60 each my country doesn't have food we can't even protest peacefully this is the daily standoff crowd sometimes attacks by pro-government clubs on motorcycles who opened fire indiscriminately gunfire takes at least one life this day that of 27 year old Miguel Castillo but it doesn't stop the daily battle to eat Virginia who's been doing this for 18 months to feed her five kids she can't find work since she had this little one but here sometimes finds what she calls a meeting sometimes I find stuffed bread she says rice meat beans pasta some people are conscientious and put it in clean bags leaving it out so how has oil-rich Venezuela got so bad most countries it's the market that sets the price let's say for example right but here in Venezuela the government decides how much you should pay for most good stuff but also what many people's wages actually are and since the old prices crashed globally they've not been able to keep one up with the cover it basically front house money and now for rights like this you need to find three times as many notes in C and that's about a month minimum wage wherever you look refreshing and conga ports this once proud City hey Zeus is a juggler a magician for kids parties beaten heavily he says in the day befores protests now begging for food when we find him unless he does he I know if I spend two days on the street he said in two days at home and when I go home because I have food before I get calls to do magic at birthday parties but now no now for the country the way it is magic doesn't open it down they mourn the dead the anger quiet indignant not belligerent South America is looking to see if enough's whele can fixed itself made crisis without major bloodshed but they are falling so far so fast and the ground is getting real Nick Paton Walsh CNN Caracas Venezuela