Representatives of 22 countries met in Andorra for the 27th Ibero-American Summit, where they questioned Delcy Rodríguez’s presence and they called Maduro’s regime a dictatorship that violates human rights.
Reporters Without Borders published its report on the press freedom situation in 180 countries. Venezuela ranked 148th. Manuel Isidro Molina, general director of Radio Rumbos, a radio station that had been broadcasting for 71 uninterrupted years, read a ruling by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice establishing that the station now belongs to banker Pedro Torres Ciliberto.
The World Food Programme announced the agreement to start operating in the country, with children in the most vulnerable sectors being the priority. In this phase, the WFP will provide meals to kids in schools, will invest in rehabilitating cafeterias, and will provide the personnel with food safety practices. They hope to provide meals for 185,000 children by the end of the year and they’ll work to reach 1.5 million children by the end of the 2022-2023 school year.
Maduro’s regime wants to create a registry forcing human rights NGOs to hand over all the information on their donors and beneficiaries, obviously including the names of people denouncing state officers and those who benefit from educational programs.
Juan Guaidó said that the caretaker government is willing to provide more resources in order to access more doses of the vaccine. NGOs must now register before the Office Against Organized Crime and Terrorist Financing. This rule forces NGOs to give their lists of donors and beneficiaries to the government.
The Venezuelan Observatory of Finance published its first report on the Workers’ Salaries Index. The percentage of salaries paid in dollars went from 17.4% in 2020 to 46% in 2021. Union leader Mauro Zambrano said that sanitary personnel in 17 hospitals have been threatened for speaking openly about their inadequate working conditions.
According to the National Hospital Survey, last week was the worst in the country, after they measured the occupancy rate in ICUs, the number of cases, and the number of deaths. Súmate warned that over 80% of candidates to the National Electoral Council board of authorities have ties to PSUV.
Juan Carlos Alemán reported that the commission to study the reform of the RESORTE Law has been installed; they’ll also debate a Cyberspace Law. Diosdado Cabello said that every journalist covering the armed conflict in Apure has to be considered an enemy.
Despite the opacity on vaccine management in Venezuela and the low percentage of healthcare workers who’ve had the first dose. Rodríguez reiterated the regime’s rejection of the AstraZeneca vaccine; Venezuela is NAKimporting oil because it’s crucial for the State, except that now the books and the checks are kept hidden.
Six youth members of Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular were detained after disinfecting a building in Aragua; Human Rights commissioner Humberto Prado presented his human rights report, where he concluded that economic, social, cultural and environmental rights have been violated; The daily average of COVID-19 cases has tripled in the last few weeks.
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