Garbage dumps have become “a regular place for people to
eat” in Venezuela, says a local priest lamenting the nation's increasingly dire
economic and political crisis. “There's a lot of suffering,” Fr. Victor
Salomon, a priest who works in the Archdiocese of Caracas, told CNA. “This has
been something commonly seen. It is really something very painful because the
people are really in great need.” Riots have spiked in Venezuela in recent
years, resulting from unemployment, food and medicine shortages, and President
Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian policies. More…
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