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logo 9/24/2024 12:26:10 PM     
Venezuelan women are increasingly taking up the grueling work of fishing 
By García Cano VE Source: wlrn 6/30/2023
García Cano
Credit: Matias Delacroix / AP
Long before sunrise, dozens of people gather around more than 50 boats along this portion of Venezuela’s vast Caribbean coast, their tanned bodies showing scars and maimed hands from years of fishing. Most of them are men, but women are increasingly among them
 

The women may be joining a family tradition of fishing, or in some cases launching new careers after losing jobs during Venezuela’s economic crisis, enlisting in the physically demanding work that may pay $8 after five consecutive 12-hour shifts.

 
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