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Crisis-torn Venezuela a challenge for those in wheelchairs

by Jorge RuedaMatías Delacroix
| December 11, 2020 9:30 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Working, studying or even leaving one’s home can be a challenge for someone in a wheelchair in Venezuela, where a once-lauded law defending their rights and requiring that buildings be adapted for their use has never been applied.

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