One of the many byproducts of Venezuela’s acute political
and financial crisis is food truck looting, a pattern that is plaguing the
country’s highways with chaos and fear. Just last week, some 200 looters
swarmed into an overturned tractor-trailer carrying canned juice — men, women
and children were seen taking as many boxes of juice as they could, either by
foot or on motorcycles. Drivers and even emergency personnel just stood by,
unaffected. "The two Venezuelas" (Las dos Venezuelas), a catchphrase
so commonly used here these days to describe the rift between the poor and the
middle or upper class, were exposed in broad daylight for everyone to see: the
looters and the citizens. More…
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