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Manuel Delgado Díaz worked for PDVSA for 31 years. He ended up selling even his books to eat when he retired.

The human rights activist Luis Carlos Díaz was taken to prison, accused of causing the first national blackout in Venezuela. His wife went looking for him, having no idea where he was. Nor how.

An indigenous woman approached me and invited me to her home. Her five children were in the room. “Take her,” she told me. She pointed to a girl with sad eyes. “I can’t feed them all.”

We entered the refugee camp and a group of children jumped on us. I took them a picture and showed it to them. They exploded in surprise. There are no mirrors in the desert. They had never seen their own reflections.