But back to the morgue of central Caracas, where FT correspondent
Andres Schipani writes that the stench forces everyone to cover their
nostrils. "Now things are worse than ever," says Yuli Sánchez. "They kill people and no one is punished while families have to keep their pain to themselves."
Ms Sánchez’s 14-year-old nephew, Oliver, was shot five times by
malandros, or thugs, while riding on the back of a friend’s motorcycle.
His uncle, Luis Mejía, remarked that in a fortnight three members of
their family had been shot, including two youths who were shot by
police.
Sounds a little like Chicago on a Friday... only in Venezuela things
are even worse: "an economic, social and political crisis facing Nicolás
Maduro, Venezuela’s unpopular president, is being aggravated by a rise in violence which is prompting fears that this oil-rich country risks becoming a failed state."
Even the morgue employees are asking if they should give up..
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