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-In the centre of Caracas,
Former President Chávez
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and his successor Nicolás Maduro
are omnipresent.
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Despite their promise
of a socialist ideal,
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the economic crisis is acute.
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Every morning, dozens of children
take to the streets.
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Jefferson, 12,
and Adriel, 14,
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were abandoned by their
parents, unable to feed them.
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They met on the street.
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Left on their own, they try
to earn enough to survive.
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-Take that, my child;
may God protect you.
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-Venezuela suffers
from record inflation:
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more than one million percent
last year according to the IMF.
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Their small currency
is worth almost nothing.
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-I have 3,000 Bolivars.
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-That's a lot?
-No, that's not enough.
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-What do you want to
buy from me with this?
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-I want to buy a hot dog.
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-At best, these children
earn 25,000 bolivares a day,
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less than one Swiss franc: barely
enough to avoid starvation.
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These 20-bolivarian banknotes
have an insignificant value:
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they're not even worth picking up.
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-Even with the 500 bolivares
ticket you don't buy anything.
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-In Venezuela, 60% of the population
is under 30 years of age.
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-In Venezuela, 60% of the population
is under 30 years of age.
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This youth
grew up with capsizing.
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Their country has fallen into chaos
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since N. Maduro came to power in 2013.
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Shortages, power outages,
failing hospitals.
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The stores are empty,
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or overpriced products
due to inflation.
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Malnutrition, extreme poverty.
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Every day,
these children and adolescents
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pushed to the street
are more and more numerous.
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Richard, 22 years old, has been
living on the street for two months.
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-Before I lived
in an apartment.
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Now everything is
different, everything.
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At home I had a family,
a bed, hot water.
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Everything here is different.
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-Me, all I have are police officers
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that wake me up with blows.
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I would never have imagined
ending up on the street,
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eat out of the garbage.
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-Nothing predestined these young
people to live on the streets.
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Richard comes from a
middle-class family.
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His mother was a banker,
he was a design student.
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Today, he lives with
this group of friends.
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Often, they are beaten
up by the police.
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Richard pays the price
for his political commitment
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against President Maduro.
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Arrested by the police during a
walk in the centre of Caracas,
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he spent two years in prison.
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-They accused me of terrorism
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because I was participating in
the opposition demonstrations.
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In prison, it was horrible.
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The police tortured me,
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they made me suffer electric shocks.
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They hung me by my feet.
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They made the revolution, but their
socialism ended in dictatorship.
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-Hugo Chávez had promised
that the Venezuelans
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would never go hungry again.
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Today,
6 mios 700'000 people
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are in a situation of food insecurity.
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In this working-class neighbourhood,
this association helps
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to these mothers and their children
victims of malnutrition.
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-It's a supplement.
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so they can regain their strength,
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especially for mothers
who are underweight.
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Mothers and their babies.
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-Since we've been coming here,
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they're getting better.
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She gained weight; before, she
was very thin, and so was he.
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I too have had weight problems.
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I lost a baby
because I didn't eat enough.
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Here I feel at home.
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-Due to the crisis, 60%
of children under five years of age
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suffer from malnutrition.
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Thirty mothers and 70 children
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benefit from this financed food aid
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by donations from
Venezuelans living abroad.
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Today, they eat their only
complete meal of the day.
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Désiré, 23 years old,
is raising his two children alone.
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-A lot of moms give up
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their children
because they have no choice.
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They do not have enough to feed them.
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But I will never abandon my children.
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-Désiré lives in a poor neighbourhood
in the suburbs of Caracas.
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Unemployed, without her husband
left overnight,
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she had to move into this cabin.
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Like her,
more than 60% of Venezuelans
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live in extreme poverty.
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She became pregnant at the
beginning of the year,
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but weakened by hunger
she lost her third child
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after four months of pregnancy.
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-There is no water,
no water comes out of the pipe.
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So I collect the rainwater,
I boil it, and we drink it.
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But sometimes the water is so dirty
that it makes my children sick.
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-Désiré is a former chavist,
she had supported N. Maduro.
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Today, she is hoping
for his departure.
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-When Chávez was there,
everything was fine.
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Since Maduro came to power,
we have had nothing left.
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Public hospitals
no longer work.
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I would like Guaidó to be president
>because Maduro does nothing.
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I don't know if he's putting
money in his pocket,
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or if he gives it to his family.
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If Chávez were here, we wouldn't be
in this situation.
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-Social assistance
set up under capsizing
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are out of breath.
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In addition to the shortage of food ,
there is also a shortage of medicines.
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South of Caracas, this village is
affected by this humanitarian crisis.
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These inhabitants
are the forgotten ones of the regime.
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Lack of contraceptives
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no longer allows women
to control their pregnancy.
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Rocio, an NGO volunteer, helps them.
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-Hello Lolimar,
How are the children?
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I'll bring you a case of food.
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-Lolimar has eight children, she
lives on her husband's minimum wage:
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the equivalent of 6 francs per month.
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She did not choose to
have such a large family,
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but she has no money to
buy the pill or condoms.
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-I'm going to be sterilized.
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I wait for the doctor to call me
to have my tubes tied.
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Since the crisis, it is no longer
possible to have contraceptive pills.
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Before, we used to pick
them up at the hospital.
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But now there are no more.
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It's become overpriced.
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The tablet of pills
cost 4 dollars.
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That's more than half of our income.
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-More and more women are
resorting to sterilization,
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for lack of contraception.
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Rocio, the social worker,
sees them every day.
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-Young girls
have children by the age of thirteen.
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They can have up to ten.
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We help them to sterilize themselves
to limit this.
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It's not easy,
it makes you want to cry.
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These women don't even have
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enough to buy shoes
for their children.
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-An explosion in the birth rate
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takes place in the poorest
areas of the country.
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-Do you sell contraceptives?
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-No, I don't have any more.
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-How long has it been?
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-For at least a month.
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To find them, you have to
go to several pharmacies.
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You can even find them
on the black market.
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-This catastrophic situation has
pushed Venezuelans into the streets
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to demand the departure of N. Maduro.
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Monster demonstrations
for more than four years,
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violently repressed:
nearly fifty dead
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since the beginning of the year,
and hundreds of injured.
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N. Maduro stands firm, the
army is loyal to him.
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-We will stop the traitors,
and the putschists too!
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-At 36 years of age, Juan Guaidó,
self-proclaimed president,
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became his main opponent.
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-I take the lead
of the National Executive,
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as president
in charge of Venezuela.
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-An interim president
recognized by fifty countries,
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and supported by the United States.
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He came to celebrate tonight
in the centre of Caracas
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the second anniversary of the death
of an opposition youth.
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Neomar, 17 years old,
was killed in a demonstration.
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-Lord, have mercy on all Venezuelans,
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of all those who died.
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-Neomar's grandmother
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has become a strong
opponent of the government.
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-If we continue like this,
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youth have no future in this country.
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The diet must fall
so that our children
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and our grandchildren
can have a future here.
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-The opposition accuses the police
of killing the young demonstrator
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a tense fire of tear gas grenades.
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-This tragedy cannot go unpunished.
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We are fighting for justice.
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And also because a teenager
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must have lost his life for
the freedom of Venezuela.
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It's unfair to have to fight for food,
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it is unfair that protests
are persecuted in this way.
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-J. Guaidó, however,
was not unanimous.
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Self-proclaimed President,
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the support it receives from the
United States divides the country.
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Venezuelans
remain very nationalistic.
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But meanwhile, N. Maduro's
diet refuses to recognize
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the humanitarian
crisis in the country.
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For street children, for
Richard, Jefferson and their friends,
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every day
is a new battle.
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-They say that the country
has no more money,
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that it's the United States' fault.
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But in a country as rich as
ours, how is that possible?
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-Street brothers, these children
have created a new family,
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and they continue to dream
despite everything.
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-If I ever get out of here,
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I'll buy a lot of
things for street kids.
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-A childhood deprived of carelessness,
a generation
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whose fate is suspended to the
political future of their country.