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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.

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