Summer typically brings bright, colorful vegetables to the dinner table, promoting healthy eating all season long. But for Venezuelans, this summer brings extreme food shortages, little fruits or vegetables, and bags of pasta that cost $300. Despite this widely publicized, imminent crisis, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations denies…
Maduro Promises Expanded Healthcare Despite Economic Hardship
In the midst of Venezuela’s worst economic crisis in history and faced with the threat of a possible referendum vote that could cut short his six-year term, President Nicolas Maduro announced a new plan to expand healthcare initiatives to citizens in need. In a speech from the presidential palace, Maduro…
With No Access to Food or Contraception, Venezuelan Women Are Choosing Sterilization
As the growing threats of famine and the diminishing supply of medicines in Venezuela put the country’s citizens in a dangerous position, more and more women are forced to abandon their dreams of motherhood. “Before, when you got pregnant, everyone was happy,” said Yessy Ascanio, 38. “Now when a woman…