By Esteban Rojas with Margioni Bermudez in Maracaibo Yusmary spends as much as half her weekly wage for water. Isora must go to the black market to get gas cylinders so she can cook. Rodrigo, weary of blackouts, bought portable generators for his home and business. Public utilities offer erratic service in Venezuela, and citizens pay steeply to make up for the shortcomings. When power shuts off and water and gas supplies run dry, people […]
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Kids, teachers ditch school as crisis engulfs Venezuela
(Reuters) Mariangel Caceres’ teachers, whose salaries do not buy enough food to live on, stopped showing up for classes early this year. The state school in the verdant Andean state of Tachira in Venezuela also had to cut back on providing meals due to nationwide food shortages. So when the leftist government in April decreed Friday school closings to save electricity, it was the last straw. “I left school a week after Easter,” said Caceres, […]





