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Venezuela tries to make it rain
In desperate need of water and electricity, Venezuela is "bombing" clouds and praying for rain.
Venezuelans protest closure of TV station
Students march against the shuttering of an opposition TV station popular as much for its soap operas as its news reporting.
Venezuela converts tourist destinations into farmland
Government says land needed for food security but conservationists fear for the region's fauna.
Venezuela's kidnapping express
The preferred method for Venezuelan kidnappers involves driving victims around while families get the ransom together.
Travel restrictions crimp shopping sprees
Venezuelans must now tell the government where they are traveling and what they are buying.
Newly rich, now under attack
They made their money in Chavez's revolution and seemed untouchable. Now they are in jail.
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