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Back in time in Venezuela: without diesel, oxen replace tractors
CARACAS: "We have gone back about two centuries," groans farmer Alfonso Morales who, for a lack of diesel in oil-rich Venezuela, must now rely on oxen to plow his land."Plowing a hectare with oxen takes three or four days. With a tractor it is only about five hours," Morales, 28, told AFP by telephone from Merida in the Andes mountains, where he is finding it increasingly difficult to eke out a living.Venezuela's deep economic slump, worsened by US sanctions, has seen the former oil giant run low on fuel for domestic use -- a deficiency felt even more acutely in the South American country's rural, food-growing parts than in the capital, Caracas.At its height, Venezuela, with the world's larg

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