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Venezuelans swarm a government market in Caracas to buy subsidized food from a worker whose shirt translates as "Oh no! Chavez isn't leaving." (Associated Press)

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Fidela Hernandez, 46, uses a washing machine last month after filling it with water, bucket by bucket, in La Pedrera, one of the most impoverished slums in Caracas, Venezuela. The slums have been growing, driven largely by migration of people from depressed rural areas to Caracas. (Associated Press)

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Argentina's national soccer team coach Diego Armando Maradona listens to a question from the press prior to his meeting with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, unseen, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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An advertisement that reads "all the store on sale" runs across the storefront in Caracas, Venezuela, where a drop in oil prices has roughly cut in half the amount of goods the country can afford to import.