Venezuelan plumber Marcos Heredia scoured
20 pharmacies in one day but could not find crucial medicines to stop his
epileptic 8-year-old (not pictured) from convulsions that caused irreparable
brain damage late last year. The once giggly and alert boy, also called Marcos,
could no longer sit on his own and began to shut off from the outside world. "I
called people in the cities of San Cristobal, Valencia, Puerto La Cruz,
Barquisimeto, and no one could find the medicine," Heredia, 43, said in
the family's bare living room in a windy slum overlooking an international
airport in the coastal state of Vargas. More…
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