The parents of at least 17 newborn babies at Venezuela’s Dr. Luis Razetti Hospital in Anzoátegui are now dealing with the overwhelming grief of losing a child after an opossum infestation in the hospital’s maternity ward resulted in the deaths of over a dozen babies within a week. The infestation,…
Widespread Rx Shortages Have Caused Some Venezuelans To Take Animal Meds Instead
Widespread shortages have been ravaging supplies of Venezuelan food, tech, and medical industries for months, due to the instability of the political and financial climate in that country. Now, shortages of medications have gotten so bad that some Venezuelans have reportedly resorted to using medications for pets. Yahoo! News and…
Venezuelan Couples Join Others From Latin America in Mass Same-Sex Wedding
Around 16% of all weddings are destination weddings, but some recent destination nuptials held special significance for those participating. Venezuelan couples were among more than 60 same-sex couples from the region who gathered in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan on Aug. 16 for a mass wedding ceremony —…
Venezuelan Soccer Player Faces $100,000 Medical Bill in Canada
Venezuela is well known for its soccer heritage. In fact, as the country faces hardships in nearly every other aspect — from political unrest to economic collapse and shortages of basic goods — soccer is becoming the one thing that has helped Venezuelans unite across the political divide. According to…
Venezuelans Become Increasingly Shuttered As Phone Companies Restrict International Calls
Venezuelans have been living on scarce supplies of food, paper products, medicine, electronics, and even beer — and now it’s getting harder for residents to make basic phone calls to foreign countries. CNBC reported that South America’s largest telephone operator, Movistar, began halting operations during May in all but 10…
Venezuelan Workers Are Leaving in Droves To Work for Foreign Companies
Venezuela’s political and economic turmoil has become so disastrous that it’s actually easy to forget that the country is filled with countless individuals just trying to keep a steady job, put food on the table, and have a place to sleep at night. But headhunters in Central and South American…