As Venezuela's misery and political standoff drag on, the cemetery of its second-largest city has tightened up on security to deter grave robbers.
Pillaged vaults stand inside Cuadrado cemetery in Maracaibo, Venezuela, May 16, 2019. Thieves have broken into some of the vaults and coffins since late last year, stealing ornaments and sometimes items from corpses as the country sinks to new depths of deprivation.
“Starting eight months ago, they even took the gold teeth of the dead,” said José Antonio Ferrer, who is in charge of the cemetery, where a prominent doctor, a university director and other local luminaries are buried. The destruction in Maracaibo, where blackouts were the norm long before March, defied easy understanding. The fittings of a hotel were torn out or just torn to shreds, leaving the structure littered with debris in an image reminiscent of wartime or the aftermath of a natural disaster.
As in other cities, weary drivers nap on top of cars as they wait for scarce gasoline in long lines at service stations. “Operación Libertad” was scrawled in white on the back window of one taxi, a reference to opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s campaign to topple Maduro.
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