VENEZUELA-ECONOMY

Customers sitting in front of posters referring to the crisis in the shopping business in a mall in Caracas on April 16, 2014. Empty shop windows, stores without supplies, reduced working timetables, decayed premises: Venezuela’s shopping malls work at half speed as result of the many governmental controls over the acquisition of foreign currency, profits percentages and renting of business premises. AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO