According to a report released by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), the gender pay gap between Hispanic women and white men in the U.S. is larger than that of any other demographic. Researchers estimated that it would take 232 years for Hispanic women to catch up and close…
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…
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…
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…
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…