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“It kind of beggars credulity that that number of complaints could be raised and that none could be substantiated,” Johnson said.

"Having been in a video in such tragic circumstances, it's beggars belief why people want to do that," she said.

He inherited the job of impoverishing his resource-rich country on the death of Hugo Chávez—who had himself been beggaring Venezuela since 1999.

"I see more and more beggars in town as people are starving. People have no jobs and so the election seems like a distant prospect. They have no time to be interested in it."

King Lear, bearing the brunt of a storm, looks at what he thinks is a mad beggar and wonders if “unaccommodated man” is no more than “a poor, bare, forked animal.”