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Venezuela returns to 'Middle Ages' during power outages - a glimpse of how today's society would act
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Caracas (AFP) - Walking for hours, making oil lamps, bearing water. For Venezuelans today, suffering under a new nationwide blackout that has lasted days, it's like being thrown back to life centuries ago.. Families gather with buckets to fill up with water, wash dishes and scrub clothes. The taps in their homes are dry from lack of electricity to the city's water pumps. "We're forced to get water from sources that obviously aren't completely hygienic... Because of the long lines of people, the activity can take hours of waiting..
Some shops seeing an opportunity have hiked the prices of bottles of water and bags of ice to between $3 and $5 - a fortune in a country where the monthly minimum salary is the equivalent of $5.50.. Better-off Venezuelans, those with access to US dollars, have rushed to fill hotels that have giant generators and working restaurants.
For others, preserving fresh food is a challenge. Others, more desperate, scour trash cans for food scraps. They are hurt most by having to live in a country where basic food and medicine has become scarce...
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Totally unprepared - only the rich survive, who rip off the poor. Next would be the return to a feudal society.
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