Venezuelans must work 4,000 years to buy a house
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By Ron Gonzalez
Caracas, Feb 19 (efe-epa).- Carmen Hurtado’s hopes rise every time a potential customer approaches the makeshift stand in the Venezuelan capital where she sells puppets, as each sale brings her closer to her dream of having a home of her own, a seemingly impossible goal in an oil-rich nation where someone earning the minimum wage would have to work 4,000 to amass enough money to buy a house.
The 45-year-old university lecturer currently resides in the home of a relative in the poor Caracas neighborhood of San Jose, best known for a history of violence chronicled in the songs of a local rap group.