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Venezuela’s Earthquakes Show Wealth Divide, Even in Death

Latin America’s deep-seated inequalities prevailed over the grimly equalizing force of the Venezuela earthquakes, and set even the dead apart.

© Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times

Michell Mendoza, 16, right, standing next to a truck holding her mother’s coffin after being turned away from a cemetery.
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