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Migrants returning to Venezuela face debt and harsh living conditions

Migrants returning to Venezuela face debt and harsh living conditions

MARACAIBO, Venezuela — The hands of Yosbelin Pérez have made tens of thousands of the aluminum round gridles that Venezuelan families heat every day to cook arepas. She takes deep pride in making the revered 'budare,' the common denominator among rural tin-roofed homes and city apartments, but she owns nothing to her name despite the years selling cookware.
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