Caretaker Presidency Announced a Dollar Bonus for Healthcare Workers
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.
Briefing
The Regime Vilifies Patients and Returning Migrants
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.
GDP Will Contract More in Latin America Than in the Rest of the World
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.
An absurd Record: ‘Recovered’ Patient Figures Grew by 58%
The regime’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has been so amazing that we can’t understand why they requested help from the IMF.
Pope Francis Mentions Venezuela in His Easter Address
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 Compares Its Absurd Figures to Those of the Region
Guaidó reiterates that the pandemic can’t be overcome without international funds... but chavismo can’t manage them.
Humanitarian Aid Finally Arrives
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.
School's Out... for the Rest of the Year
Add ignorance to the list of problems that affect us. The regime presents more incoherent figures, the U.S. keeps cornering Maduro and the population helplessly awaits a solution.
Venezuela: One of the Countries with Fewer Tests in the Hemisphere
The Venezuelan population is facing lockdowns with power outages and water shortages, poor internet access, lack of food and medicine and with the black market dollar at 100,000 bolivars.
Nonsense Reports, Nonsense Answers
Without an epidemiology bulletin, a repressive regime with no reliable technical team seems to be leading us towards a worse disaster than what we already have.
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