Anarchy in Venezuela's jails laid bare by massacre over food


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  • Saturday, 09 May 2020

FILE PHOTO: Relatives of inmates pray outside Los Llanos penitentiary after a riot erupted inside the prison leaving dozens of dead as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Guanare, Venezuela May 2, 2020. REUTERS/Freddy Rodriguez/File Photo

CARACAS (Reuters) - Three weeks before he was shot dead, Miguel Calderon, an inmate in the lawless Los Llanos jail on Venezuela's central plains, sent a voice message to his father.

"We live among the s*** and the trash," the 26-year-old former soldier, convicted of car theft, said in the message reviewed by Reuters.

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