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Venezuela's zoo animals starving under food shortages

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Some 50 animals have starved to death in the last six months at the Caricuao zoo in Caracas, according to a union leader, because of chronic food shortages that have plagued the crisis-stricken South American nation. Jillian Kitchener reports.

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