Nuestra Señora del Carmen school (El Cortijo, Caracas)
School in the El Cortijo neighbourhood of Caracas, Venezuela. The Atlantic’s “Venezuela Is Falling Apart” uses its twice-robbed lunch pantry to show the state’s collapse.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venezuela Is Falling Apart | Moisés Naím, Francisco Toro | setting | Thieves break into the school pantry twice, once leaving the children unfed for at least a week, illustrating the breakdown of law and… |
Venezuela Is Falling Apart — Moisés Naím, Francisco Toro (2016)
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At Nuestra Señora del Carmen school in El Cortijo, a struggling neighborhood of Caracas, supplies for the school-lunch program have been stolen twice this year already: Thugs have broken into the school’s pantry late at night after fresh food is delivered.
- Role: setting
- In the article: Thieves break into the school pantry twice, once leaving the children unfed for at least a week, illustrating the breakdown of law and order and hunger keeping kids from school.
- Why it matters: One of the article’s concrete vignettes of state collapse at street level.