
People on horseback cross Trasandina Road in Merida, Venezuela, on on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. Suicides are rapidly rising across this once-wealthy nation, but particularly in mountainous Merida, where they are hitting levels never seen. (Photographer: Manaure Quintero/Bloomberg)
Suicides Surge in a Hopeless Venezuela
(Bloomberg) -- The patients arrive by night or in broad daylight, alive and sometimes dead.