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With the naming of Subtropical Storm Theta this week, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season surpassed 2005 as the busiest season ever recorded. Theta is the 29th named storm of hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. There were 28 named storms in 2005: 21-named from an official alphabetical list used by the …

Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas. Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten …