A portrait of Hugo Chávez and a Bolivarian battle cry greet visitors to the Boyacá viewpoint in the mountains north of Caracas. “A ghost town,” laments Omar Lugo, director of news website El Estímulo, during a night-time driving tour of a once-buzzing metropolis being eviscerated by the country’s collapse. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A view west across Caracas, which was once a buzzing metropolis. Public services are collapsing, businesses closing and residents evacuating on buses or one of a dwindling number of flights still connecting their fallen metropolis to the rest of the world. Among them was Rosemarie Newton, a retired language teacher who had signed up because she could no longer afford to eat.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2018 07:30 UTC