Kids, teachers ditch school as crisis engulfs Venezuela


  • World
  • Friday, 17 Jun 2016

A girl arrives to an improvised classroom above a state-run supermarket, which is part of state school Monsenor Marco Tulio Ramirez Roa, in La Fria, Venezuela, June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

LA FRIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Mariangel Caceres' teachers, whose salaries do not buy enough food to live on, stopped showing up for classes early this year.

The state school in the verdant Andean state of Tachira in Venezuela also had to cut back on providing meals due to nationwide food shortages.

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