Kennels’: Venezuela’s dangerous answer to transport chaos

Packed inside a barred pick-up truck that looks like a mobile cage, passengers are risking their lives in Venezuela’s perilous solution to a public transport crisis. Far from banning the ‘kennels’, as they are known, due to a spate of fatal accidents, governors and mayors are even launching their own fleets, free of charge. In the Libertador municipality hometown of President Nicolas Maduro, himself a former bus driver, the words ‘Loving Caracas’ can be read on the transport trucks. But that belies the reality of a situation in which 55 people have died since April using improvised transport methods such as the ‘kennels’. More…