Angry streets, not recall, may be Venezuela leader's biggest risk


People queue outside a supermarket to try to buy basic food items in Caracas, Venezuela, May 16, 2016. REUTERS/Marco Bello

CARACAS (Reuters) - Streaming down from hilltop slums in the dead of night, hundreds of Venezuelans join an ever-growing line that circles the vast "Bicentennial" state-run supermarket.

By sunrise, there are several thousand, closely watched by National Guard soldiers, all waiting for the chance to buy coveted rice, flour or chicken at subsidized prices amid crippling nationwide shortages and inflation.

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