The Washington Post has published a new photo essay that shows in heartbreaking detail how bad the crisis in Venezuela has become. Venezuela was once one of the wealthiest countries in South America, with a strong economy built on the country’s abundant natural resources, especially oil. Its natural beauty brought in one million people and one billion dollars per year. Dictatorial actions by former President Hugo Chavez and current disputed President Nicolas Maduro nationalized the nation’s oil industry and have plunged it into an economic crisis and turned Venezuela back into a third-world country. The national currency is worthless, most
