Venezuela's Humanitarian Crisis Has Become a Regional Crisis
The economic situation facing the masses in Venezuela has suffered a sharp turn for the worse over the Christmas period. The problems that already existed have worsened, with prices spiralling out of control, a further collapse of the transport system and an aggravation of scarcity (of food, fuel and cash). This has led to scattered protests and...
The death of a former major league baseball player in his native Venezuela this week is renewing concerns over the Latin American country's growing health crisis amid ongoing economic and political turmoil.
A look at the country's ongoing protests against the government of President Maduro and the current political situation.
Venezuela in Crisis
10.05.2018
President Nicolas Maduro's efforts to consolidate power amid a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis have drawn widespread international condemnation.
When the workers on Juan Daniel Arzola's farm in the central Venezuelan region of Guárico started coming to work weak from hunger last year, he knew he had to make a change.
It sounds like a plan ripped from a Hollywood script.
PACARAIMA, Brazil - Hundreds turn up each day, many arriving penniless and gaunt as they pass a tattered flag that signals they have reached the border.
