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Fidela Hernandez, 46, uses a washing machine last month after filling it with water, bucket by bucket, in La Pedrera, one of the most impoverished slums in Caracas, Venezuela. The slums have been growing, driven largely by migration of people from depressed rural areas to Caracas. (Associated Press)

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In this image courtesy of Globovision Television News, people surrounds the wreckage of an airplane of a state airline Conviasa after it crashed about 6 miles from the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. The plane was carrying 51 people, and officials said at least 33 people survived.(AP Photo/Globovison)

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Ms. Isasi-Catala measures a track of a wildcat, possibly a jaguar, which have distinctive round toes. She is carrying out the first comprehensive study of the spotted cats of its kind in Venezuela. (Associated Press)

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Argentina's national soccer team coach Diego Armando Maradona listens to a question from the press prior to his meeting with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, unseen, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Work has changed at Inveval, an industrial valve company in Caracas, Venezuela, that the government expropriated. Now it is limited to refurbishing valves rather than manufacturing them.

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An advertisement that reads "all the store on sale" runs across the storefront in Caracas, Venezuela, where a drop in oil prices has roughly cut in half the amount of goods the country can afford to import.