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In Focus: Short of Food, Venezuelans Abandon Pets

By David Schonauer   Wednesday September 28, 2016

As Venezuela’s economic and social crisis worsens, the Atlantic’s In Focus blog features work by Reuters photographer Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Associated Press photographer Fernando Llano, who document how food shortages are forcing many Venezuelans to abandon their dogs and cats in parks, shelters, and private clinics. Pet owners say …

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