The Venice of Venezuela

Guest presenter: Paul Bakibinga

El Morro was conceived as the Venice of Venezuela, a place of canals and luxury yachts on the Caribbean Sea. But even here the economic and political crisis is evident, as BBC Mundo’s Guillermo Olmo discovered.

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Image: Yacht in El Morro, Venezuela
Credit: G. D. OLMO/BBC