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As Maduro faces Gonzalez in Venezuela, sanctions remain a key hurdle
“Life has been hard for years now. It’s true that food prices have come down recently, but they’re still so high,” says Rodrigo, a private security guard working in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. He did not want to give his last name. Amid a decades-long …