This is Sulea's biggest and popular meat market. Well, it used to be at least. Now it's less about meat and more about hooves, fat, tripe and bones.
Animal offcuts have become the affordable option for Venezuelans priced out by hyperinflation. Anything makes a good soup or stew. Rotten beef is also sold here in this market. It smells strong. It's got flies all over it.
And people eat that? They buy it? They buy it because imagine what they're going to do. They eat cheap.
A kilo of beef costs up to... to a third of the monthly minimum wage and would provide maybe a couple of meals. But this rotten beef is 1% of a salary.
Refrigerators in the market have constant power cuts. It's not just electricity. There's chaos everywhere. Hospitals are also affected by this crisis.
Equipments and beds left derelict. There's no money to repair them. No garbage removal means outside hospitals you find huge piles of medical waste including drips and needles. And piles of rubbish are also a source of food here.
For desperate families, anything will do. But this is a province with huge oil reserves. This wealth is almost everywhere.
It's under the ground, it's right up to its shores. Many here accuse the government of mismanaging the country's enormous wealth, to which the ruling party is very quickly to reply that its foreign government and the political opposition... who are to blame.
But you have to queue for almost everything from food to cash withdrawals, queues in which you can easily spend the whole day. Public transport is on the verge of collapse. People now take whatever form of transport they can find. And frequent power shortages are often leading to protests.
This is a community that's been five days without any electricity. This part of the country, this is not rare, this is happening all the time. Not even those who die escape the crisis.
Frequent power cuts mean morgues can't keep bodies refrigerated. I've been getting hit every week, every two or three weeks. They're covering me, they're going to blow me up. Yesterday, I was in a bag full of worms, with gloves and masks. It's a lack of respect.
This is a rich nation, but most people here are not rich. When I met Maria Eugenia, she had been five days without any electricity. Her only fridge was connected to a neighbor's generator. So we got two fridges. This one works, not much in it.
This one got damaged in a power cut. Maria is about to undergo surgery for breast cancer and she's had to find and buy everything the doctors need including needles, drugs and even the gloves. Hospitals simply don't have them. But she's worried about how she will recover in a house with no air conditioning and 40 degrees heat.
I don't have where to go. Maria's drama is a Venezuelan drama. Vladimir Hernandez, BBC News, Maracaibo.