SÃO PAULO—Earlier this yr, Celia Matos, a single mom from São Paulo’s Paraisópolis favela, may afford to purchase the fundamentals to feed her household. Now, she says, with the worth of meat and different meals up by 30%, she usually goes to mattress hungry so there will probably be sufficient rice and beans for her 4 kids.
“It’s humiliating,” stated Ms. Matos, 41. “Typically I simply wish to cry…I purchase gasoline to prepare dinner after which I can’t afford meals, or if I purchase meals then I don’t have cash to purchase cleaning soap.” She stated she will’t even afford the butcher store’s leftover luggage of bones.