CARACAS, Venezuela — An eerie emptiness fills the hallways of Central Venezuela University’s School of Chemistry building. Bottles of solvents gather dust inside the locked-up classrooms. Buckets sit underneath rusty pipes, wooden stools lie on top of the work stations, and the safety shower, used in the case of chemical emergencies, doesn’t work properly. The campus, with its moldy ceilings and suffocating silence, has the feel of a 1970s horror movie set.
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