Several Cities Up in Protest
Venezuela has to choose between going hungry or avoiding the pandemic and that’s the reason it’s one protest after another, while there’s a gas shortage and public services fail.
Tag: Briefing
Lootings in the Coast and Fuel Problems Galore
The regime answers lootings in the eastern coast with repression, and speaks of new price controls; Juan Guaidó's administration begins to actually help out healthcare workers; The nation thrudges over severe fuel scarcity.
Black Monday
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.
Nueva Esparta: 21 New Cases
Failures in epidemiology controls explain this exponential increase, but the regime wants to blame patients and the Acción Democrática governor.
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.
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.
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