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On Venezuelan roads, old cars prevail, break down everywhere

A derelict car with "For spare parts," written in Spanish on its windshield sits parked in the San Juan neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Drivers try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A backpack with the colors of the Venezuelan flag hangs on a wheelbarrow with tools near where cars are repaired on the street of the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Mechanics are increasingly busy as they try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Carlos Valero repairs his car's exhaust system, in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Drivers try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Ramon Arellano repairs the brakes of a customer's car on a street of the Catia neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Mechanics are increasingly busy as they try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A mechanic takes a break in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Mechanics are increasingly busy as they try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A man tries to repair his car, parked on the side of the road that connects La Guaira with Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Drivers try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A cat rests inside an abandoned, burned-out car in the El Paraiso neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. While used cars are banned for import in Venezuela, old cars make up the majority of the capital's vehicular fleet and are expensive to maintain. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Workers clean the windows of the Ferrari dealership in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Venezuela lifted a ban on importing used cars in 2019, but years of hyperinflation and government controls left banks unwilling or unable to make car loans. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A PVC pipe is used to connect an air filter of an engine of a car being repaired on the side of the road that connects La Guaira with Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Some Venezuelans have turned to YouTube for instruction on fixing their own cars. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Cars are at a standstill along the Gran Cacique Guaicaipuro highway of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Venezuela's roads are full of high-mileage, money-sucking vehicles, many that predate the socialist transformation ushered in by the late President Hugo Chavez at the turn of the century. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A man tries to cool down his overheating car by pouring water into the radiator, in one of the tunnels of the road that connects La Guaira with Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Drivers try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)