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Inside Venezuela

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Caracas from Barrio Mesuca in South Petare (one of the biggest slum's of Latin America). Image by Lila Franco. Venezuela, 2017.
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Venezuela is facing its biggest crisis yet: a high inflation rate, shortage of food and medicine...

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Art propaganda of some of the Venezuelan historical figures outside the walls of the national electric company, CORPOELEC. (From left to right: Francisco de Miranda, Antonio José de Sucre, Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez). Image by Lila Franco. Venezuela, 2017.
Art propaganda of some of the Venezuelan historical figures outside the walls of the national electric company, CORPOELEC. (From left to right: Francisco de Miranda, Antonio José de Sucre, Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez). Image by Lila Franco. Venezuela, 2017.

Venezuela has been going through a sociopolitical and economic crisis, which intensified this past year. And the government has not done anything to fix it. The inflation keeps getting higher, the shortage of food has many eating from the trash, and the hospitals lack supplies to take care of their patients. But the only thing that is not lacking is the quantity of propaganda by the government. The city is flooded with mostly pro-government posters, graffiti, and murals.

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