The National Assembly annulled the resolution of the Ministry of Ecological Mining Development, which takes advantage of the pandemic to allow extraction and exploitation in the basins of the Caroní, Caura, Aro, Cuchivero, Yuriari and Cuyuní rivers.
The negative prices of oil is really bad news for Venezuela, we’ll see the consequences soon enough. The government keeps citizens on lockdown, like they keep the military in the barracks.
Workers who apply for the program will get 100 dollars, without having to present the carnet de la patria. The regime, however, maintains its blackmail policy.
Epidemics spiral out of control when people hide symptoms for fear of repercussions, but the regime insists on this clumsy strategy. It also insists on abusing and discriminating through fuel and food distribution.
The shortage of gas makes it difficult to move around, they’re trying to jumpstart El Palito refinery and Venezuelans who returned to the country do their quarantine in inhuman conditions.
While the dictatorship criminalizes patients and discriminates through the carnet de la patria, fires (without water to put them out) asphyxiate people in Caracas, Miranda and Aragua.
The regime received humanitarian aid in Maiquetía, an admission of sanctions not being an impediment and a reflection of chavismo’s failure to manage the resources received by the country all these years.
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