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Editor’s Insight: Blame socialism not nature for Venezuela's plight

A power shortage has reduced its public servants to working just two days a week. With special feature audio.

Mon, 02 May 2016

The spiralling descent of the Venezuelan economy doesn’t look like ending. Nor is its plight only due to nature and foreign capitalists.

But these are blamed for the government's latest step in a series of catastrophes: the declaration of a two-day week for government workers, who make up more

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