25/05/2016

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Jose Villarroel, 25, left, waited for hours in the emergency operating room of Luis Razetti Hospital after he was stabbed in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. The country’s economic crisis has exploded into a public health emergency, claiming the lives of scores of Venezuelans. The state-run hospital periodically lacks water and electricity and does not have basic equipment to treat the ill.

Meridith Kohut for The New York Times