The garbage truck brakes and Rebecca runs to the container to rummage through the bags. It's his daily race against hunger, which has many Venezuelans living on scraps.
Before the waste is crushed, check quickly and find some pasta. Rebeca León is 18 years old, is finishing high school and lives in the popular neighborhood of Petare, in a house that despite its misery has basic services.
A malnourished two-year-old son, a disabled mother and weeks "at the water's edge" launched her six months ago into the streets of well-to-do sectors to look for food in the garbage.
"My mother did not want to accept it, but what else is done with how bad the country is? He was going to die of hunger, you could see the bones. My son was malnourishing me, "he told AFP.
Your routine is overwhelming. He studies in the afternoons and from school he goes out to hunt pick-up trucks and to dig waste in restaurants, from where he takes out remains of chicken, bread, fish or cheese.
He sleeps on the street and comes home in the morning to clean up what he picked up, rest and start the gear again.
-We live in the garbage
This young brunette with lively eyes left the shame aside to survive an agonizing crisis where 68% of basic products are scarce and inflation is growing uncontrollably (according to the IMF it will reach 1,660% in 2017).
"I cried because I felt humiliated. I do not stop him anymore (I do not care), because if you do not work or look for something in the trash, you do not eat, "he said while waiting for a truck that never arrived.