Vladimir Padrino López, said that “Colombia’s evils and violence are coming to Venezuela and nobody can contain that”; Colombian Border manager Lucas Gómez ruled out that Colombian authorities were blocking Venezuelans’ return; Luis Razetti Hospital patients didn’t get their chemotherapy treatments for the third week in a row.
We celebrate World Education Day while the government uses the pandemic to disencumber itself from a pile of accumulated wrongdoings after years of mismanagement in the area—and now with an additional catastrophe
Maduro said that before temporarily suspending external debt, they need an “integral restructuring”. Yesterday, Venezuelans in Apure suffered a “new FARC terrorist attack” on a FANB checkpoint. After Maduro’s proposal to exchange oil for vaccines, Dr. Julio Castro said that the problem is political, not financial.
The day after chavismo announced that COVAX vaccines by AstraZeneca were forbidden, Fedecámaras president Ricardo Cusanno presented a vaccination plan that’s awaiting Maduro’s approval after months of negotiation; Provea said that Maduro is forbidding AstraZeneca for political reasons, while the Human Rights Council pushed for a resolution to guarantee universal access to the vaccine.
Delcy Rodríguez attacked the working table for the agreement to receive vaccines from COVAX; Alberto Fernández’s government announced they’re leaving the Lima Group; The partial rules of the new decree of law of identification states that passports will be valid for ten years.
The Venezuelan Army has lost at least two officers fighting a group of Colombian irregulars, near the Arauca river. Colombia reports at least 3,000 refugees crossing the border. What does it mean?
At least 600 Venezuelan citizens arrived in Colombian town Arauquita, fleeing the recent combat and attacks in Apure; After the UN decided to temporarily suspend the cash transfer programs after harassment against NGOs in Venezuela; CENDAS estimated that a five-person household would need 446 minimum wages to buy the basic food basket.
Desperate people looking online for oxygen concentrators or money for treatment, more and more complaints over the low availability of hospital beds and concern about the Brazilian variant, even inside the regime. What do we actually know?
NGO INRAV is working on convincing Congress to create a fund and freeze the Venezuelan resources obtained through corruption and embezzlement, using the VERDAD Act
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