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May 24, 2016

Chinese bullet train in Venezuela stalls

  • Cattle now graze on grass amid the rubble of the project's looted factory, once a bustling complex with 800 workers.
    • By JOSHUA GOODMAN
    Associated Press

    ZARAZA, Venezuela — It was once billed as a model of socialist fraternity: South America's first high-speed train, powered by Chinese technology, crisscrossing Venezuela to bring development to its backwater plains. Now all but abandoned, it has become a symbol of economic collapse — and a strategic relationship gone adrift.

    Where dozens of modern buildings once stood, cattle now graze on grass growing amid the rubble of the project's gutted and vandalized factory. A red arched sign in Chinese and Spanish is all that remains of what until 16 months ago was a bustling complex of 800 workers.


     
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