Sleeping with one eye open: Venezuelans reel from US strikes

When she closes her eyes, she relives the wild shaking of her bed, her teenaged son clinging to her in fear, as explosions lit their apartment in an eery yellow glow and neighbors' screams filled the air. "I feel insecurity, shame, anger. I feel many things, but mainly I feel fear," the 50-something woman told AFP in a trembling voice weeks after the strike. "J" and others who spoke to AFP were too afraid to give their names at a time the state machinery is rounding up anyone perceived to support the US attack.