Venezuela’s ‘Pearl of the Caribbean’ loses its luster …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
A man fishes at Juan Griego bay in Margarita Island, a Caribbean paradise in decline after a years-long economic and political crisis.
Photo: Juan BARRETO / AFP
Source: AFP
One of the five stars that used to adorn the facade of the Margarita hotel on the Venezuelan paradise island of the same name has fallen off.
Not that there are any guests to notice.
The hotel is abandoned, its peeling facade a symbol of the decline of an island once dubbed the “Pearl of the Caribbean” that has been…
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