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A woman shields her child from the sun, as she sits in a line to try and buy meat, outside a supermarket in Caracas January 16, 2016. Venezuela's socialist government decreed an "economic emergency" on Friday that will expand its powers and published the first data in a year that shows the depth of a recession fueled by low oil prices and a sputtering state-led model. The central bank, which has been lambasted by critics of President Nicolas Maduro's government for hiding statistics since the end of 2014, said the South American OPEC nation's economy shrank 4.5 percent in the first nine months last year. Inflation soared in that period to an annual rate of 141.5 percent, the world's worst. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
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