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Article: After the flood: hope in Venezuela: After torrential rains six months ago, enough mud covered Vargas state to build six Giza pyramids.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 2, 2000
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Eight-foot-high mud banks festoon Elio Marchesano's seaside barber shop like some kind of macabre garland. Here, he offers $3 haircuts to the few customers still around and laments how little is being done to resurrect this town nearly wiped out by last December's devastating rains and landslides.
"With the political problems between the president and the governor, everything is paralyzed," says Mr. Marchesano, referring to a political falling out between the two leaders. "What happened here was worse than Hiroshima, but you wouldn't know it by the government's attitude. Many of the survivors have left and what wasn't destroyed was robbed. We're here fending for ...