Venezuela: A nation on the brink - BBC Newsnight

The Chavez revolution in Venezuela is in trouble. Food shortages are hurting the poor, inflation is at 141% per cent, and the economy in meltdown. Chavezs successor, President Nicolas Maduro, lacks his charisma and the government is now being accused of underestimating the scale of the Zika outbreak. John Sweeney reports. (Watch his report from Colombia here \r
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