Maria Isabel Heshmatpour

Short­ages of milk and oth­er ba­sic goods plague the mid­dle-in­come coun­try, and crit­ics blame gov­ern­ment ex­pro­pri­a­tions.

With Pres­i­dent Hugo Chavez still in a Cuban hos­pi­tal, Venezue­lans weigh the good and the bad of the last 14 years.

Short­ages of milk and oth­er ba­sic goods plague the mid­dle-in­come coun­try, and crit­ics blame gov­ern­ment ex­pro­pri­a­tions.