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Venezuela's Life-Saving Social Networks

By Rachelle Krygier

With basic goods increasingly hard to come by, Venezuelans are turning to social media to find everything from cooking oil to cancer medication.

Amid supermarket rationing and lines of empty store shelves, Venezuelans are taking day-to-day survival into their own… smartphones.

Twitter, Facebook, and messaging service WhatsApp have become go-to platforms for thousands of Venezuelans as they undertake the increasingly difficult task of finding and paying for...

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