Over 100 billion online searches are conducted across the globe each month, but one video was the topic of a great number of searches in Venezuela in mid-September. The 60-second film shows a girl with a cell phone. She’s texting her father to say that her mother is sick and…
In the U.S., only five percent of adults participate in the recommended 30 minutes of physical activity a day, but in Venezuela, a severe food and medicine shortage is giving citizens a lot more to worry about health-wise. In order to respond to the increasing severity of the crisis, the…
Nearly 1 million protesters took the to streets on September 1 in Venezuela to demand the removal of President Nicolas Maduro. They clogged the streets to make their demands known amidst what could be the country’s worst economic crisis in modern history. Venezuela’s economic crisis has spiraled into bigger issues…
An ongoing economic crisis has much worse consequences for the health of the Venezuelan people than it does for their wallets. According to HospiMedica, due to the sweeping corruption and ensuing chaos facing Venezuela, a medical crisis is occurring with no end in sight. Sky News covertly filmed three Venezuelan…
Every year, more than 45 million people move to new towns, new states, and perhaps even new countries. Recently, though, few people are moving to the once most affluent area in Latin America, Venezuela. “I used to live here, now I only survive,” said Alirio Alvarado, a Venezuelan fish farmer.…