CARACAS: Sunlight cannot penetrate, the air is fetid and fellow residents include rats and cockroaches — but that’s how 14 families are “dying slowly” in government accommodation in Venezuela’s capital Caracas.

They live on the ground floor of a ministry building a stone’s throw from the Miraflores presidential palace.

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