Human Rights Watch, a U.S.-founded international research and advocacy group, has released a new report quantifying the extent of continued food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. Entitled “Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis: Severe Medical and Food Shortages, Inadequate and Repressive Government Response,” the 78-page report calls for President Nicolas Maduro’s government to…
Venezuela’s Abandoned Dogs: The Four Legged Victims of the Current Economic Crisis
In some richer countries like the U.S., people can afford luxuries, such as swimming pools and air conditioning. In fact, there are 10.4 million residential and 309,000 public swimming pools across the entire country. But these luxuries aren’t everywhere in the world. In Venezuela, for example, the economic crisis has…
Devastation From Venezuela’s Economic Crisis Reaches Humans and Pets
In the U.S., something as simple as vehicle neglect can cost the economy upwards of $2 billion every year. However, the economic crisis in Venezuela has cost the citizens of the country much more than just money. In the midst of an ongoing economic crisis in Venezuela, citizens have lost…