174,000 people are victims of modern slavery in Venezuela, and a report by IOM region revealed that 21% of 4,600 respondents were forced to work without receiving any type of remuneration or were held against their will.
Maduro warned about new conspiracies by President Iván Duque, to sabotage the negotiation process with “criminals and sicarios.” Less than 7% of the country has been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Maduro thinks it’s time “for loans in dollars and Petros to increase production”. A new negotiation process between Maduro’s regime and the opposition will begin today. Human rights activists and organizations protested in Caracas to denounced the murder of at least eight people of the LGBTQAI+ community in 2021.
Nine-year-old Jeannys Herrera, a patient at the pediatric nephrology unit of the J.M. de los Ríos Hospital has died. She’s the third patient to die in the last ten days. "I’m going to vote on November 21st, it’s a decision that’s more than clear for me,” said former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles.
The ministries of Sports and Communications censored private media outlets and said they didn’t have the credentials to cover the arrival of the Olympian athletes from Tokyo. 600,000 Venezuelans are waiting to get the second dose of the Sputnik V vaccine.
the Venezuelan Observatory of Finance reported that the inflation in July was 19%, because of the bolivar’s devaluation. Monday was the International Indigenous Peoples Day, which has been used for propaganda under chavismo, while they strip them of their rights. Activists ask Bachelet to pay attention to the case of three detained FUNDAREDES activists.
Equinor and Total left Petrocedeño and now PDVSA is the sole proprietor of the JV. Zulia governor Omar Prieto said that they’ll infiltrate intelligence officers in vaccination centers. Deputy Freddy Guevara hasn’t been allowed visitors, nor his lawyer or a doctor after two weeks of being arbitrarily detained
Former political prisoner Daniel Ceballos posted a questionable campaign video where he flattered Venezuelan dictators. Maduro’s regime arbitrarily detained nurse Ada Macuare for demanding better wages and a vaccination plan. She was charged with terrorism on Tuesday.
The Observatorio Venezolano de Conflictividad Social registered 3,393 protests during the first quarter of the year. The UK announced sanctions on Alex Saab and Álvaro Pulido for “exploiting two Venezuelan public programs” that provide food for the poorest citizens.
CEPAZ registered at least 434 acts of persecution and criminalization perpetrated by Maduro’s regime during the first quarter of 2021. A group of teachers protested outside the Education Ministry. They say the 120% increase of their wages is less than 15 dollars.
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