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Venezuela’s official Covid-19 death toll stands just over 300, but hospital employees suggest the true situation may be far worseAs they are hauled into Maracaibo’s University hospital, pale, wheezing and panicked, a recurring cry emerges from the mouths of coronavirus patients in this bedraggled Venezuelan metropolis.“Save me!” they plead as they enter A&E, according to hospital staff too scared to give their names. “Please...

As the country battles economic collapse, parents have been forced to migrate, leaving their offspring in the care of family, neighbours or sometimes aloneIt has been four months since Isabel Carrasco skipped her crumbling country, entrusting her daughters to a neighbour to join modern South America’s largest ever exodus.Carrasco’s destination was Guyana, although the woman now raising her children isn’t sure which part. Continue...