Food shortages and high prices contain raised conservative chances of victory in this week’s election – and buoyed the mood in Caracas’s country clubFrom the vantage point of the well-kept lawns and overstuffed antique chairs of the exclusive Caracas Country Club,Venezuela doesn’t look so bad.
Much of the oil-wealthy country is crippled by rising inflation, a lack of basic goods and rampant violence that could lead to the ruling United Socialist party losing control of the legislature for the first time in 17 years in Sunday’s elections. But at this exclusive club, or set on the leafy slopes of the El Avila mountain,those troubles seem a world absent.
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Source: theguardian.com