Maduro marks two years in power in tough times

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Caracas (AFP) - Embattled President Nicolas Maduro marks two years in power Sunday with Venezuela's deep pockets pinched hard by plummeting oil prices, Latin America's highest inflation and simmering anger on the streets.
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Now 24 months on, annual inflation has soared to a whopping 68.5 percent. Shortages hit most consumer goods from food to diapers to shampoo.

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And poverty -- one of the theoretical focal points of the "revolutionary" government -- has not been reduced: rather, it is up to 32 percent.


"I have nothing against Maduro, but this government has wrecked absolutely everything," said Luisa Marina, a single mother of two who works as a housekeeper, seated on a bench in the working-class Caracas neighborhood of Petare