For a bracing look at the grassroots
anger that has overtaken oil-rich but food-poor Venezuela over the past three
months, consider the bedlam that descended on this city. On Tuesday, Maracay in
the north of the country was a chaotic and violent patch of lawlessness as
looters ran wild. A young man was fatally shot in the cheek by police,
witnesses said. The police had been trying to stop looters targeting stores in
a neighborhood called Santa Rita, one of the rougher areas of this industrial
city 120 kilometers west of Caracas. More…
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