Public-health provision deteriorates both because budgets are cut and because demand rises as some middle-class Latin Americans can no longer afford private health insurance.

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He has gained angry middle-class voters, who blame the government for recent rises in fuel, utility and transport costs.

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It starts in the atrium next to the world's largest pint glass, which rises up through the middle of the seven-story building.

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But many customers have said they were unaware of such clauses, and that the sudden imposition of price rises in the middle of a supposedly fixed-price deal was unfair.

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