In Mexico, they're called gorditas.  In El Salvador, the people call them pupusas.  But the Venezuelan version of this type of corn or flour patty is the arepa.  Now, imagine going to your favorite mexican restaurant and ordering a gordita, and when it's served, you discover that it has nothing in it.  That's what's commonly happening in Venezuela with the arepa.  Since 2013, Venezuela's economy has been in a downward spiral.  As TWR's Steve Shantz explains, "Inflation has just taken away the buying power of people's wages.  Most people are eating one meal a day just to get by."  As a result, "people are just eating the arepa now ... nothing to go in it."  You see, economically, physically, and even spiritually, there is a great deal of emptiness in Venezuela.  We need to pray that God would fill the arepas, the stomachs, and especially the hearts of the Venezuelan people!

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(Photo of Steve Shantz, TWR's International Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean)