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Street vendors sell subsidized goods on a street, at the Petare slum district of Caracas November 9, 2015. Driven by a deepening economic crisis, smuggling across Venezuela's land and maritime borders – as well as illicit domestic trading – has accelerated to unprecedented levels and is transforming society. Although smuggling has a centuries-old history here, the socialist government's generous subsidies and a currency collapse have given it a dramatic new impetus. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)
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