A street vendor sits next to his used items for sale on the sidewalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 13, 2019. Attempts by Venezuelans to survive by recycling items that would otherwise be thrown out is, in one sense, positive, according to Elizabeth Cordido, a social psychologist at Metropolitan University in Caracas. But she said “it is very negative that it's through poverty and the increase of poverty that we have arrived at this”. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
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