A majority of Venezuelan households now live on less than ten dollars a month

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Demonstration in Caracas, February 8, 2018, against the shortage of drugs (illustrative image).

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By: Juliette Pietraszewski

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In Venezuela, a large part of the citizens will not be able to afford end-of-year celebrations.

The severe economic crisis, with the highest hyperinflation in the world and the savage dollarization of trade plunges part of the population into poverty, even into extreme poverty.

Our reporter Stefanie Schüler takes us to Caracas where she was able to meet middle-class Venezuelans, impoverished by the crisis. 

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