Venezuela is hell on earth for the country’s poor. While the poor have long been forced into complacency thanks to welfare benefits provided by a state once wealthy off of oil revenues, the country’s coffers have dried up and now the poor are rebelling.
“For most of Venezuela’s two-decade socialist experiment, the city’s wealthier, whiter east has been the hotbed of anti-government sentiment,” reports Bloomberg. “Now, noisy protests are erupting in poorer-but-calmer western neighborhoods that were strongholds for embattled President Nicolas Maduro as crime explodes and medicine and food are scarce and expensive.”
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