How Venezuela's 'Pearl of the Caribbean' lost its luster

AFP English 2024-12-18

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Venezuela's Margarita island, once dubbed the "Pearl of the Caribbean", is now littered with abandoned hotels, many shops stand empty, and there are regular power outages. The country's economic collapse, high crime rates and growing international isolation in the wake of bitterly disputed elections have caught up with the island of 500,000 people.

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