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 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…
In response to online trading of Venezuelan currency at unofficial exchange rates, representatives of the country’s ruling United Socialist Party have proposed that all residents be made to use Internet passing through a single government server. National Assembly Member Juan Carlos Aleman said May 22 that the Ministry of Science,…
As a country with more proven oil reserves than Saudia Arabia, Venezuela was formerly known as one of most formidable oil producers in the world. However, Venezuela is now better known for its economic struggles, as the nation struggles with one of the most severe recessions it has ever seen.…
Colombian immigrants have long had a major presence in Venezuela, with thousands crossing the the country’s western border in the 1940s to escape a bloody civil war and benefit from the flourishing oil trade. This trend only became more popular at the height of the county’s oil boom in the…
Venezuelans have been dealing with rationing and shortages in a handful of different industries ever since the country’s currency began weakening under the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro — food, paper products, cars, electricity, and jobs are all hard to find in Venezuela these days. But the world is seeing…
For nearly a decade, the Venezuelan government has been proud of its healthcare system; then-President Hugo Chavez never hesitated to explain how his administration was able to revamp the system and provide adequate care to even the poorest citizens.But now, as the Washington Post and Boston Globe note, the country’s healthcare industry — like…
The Venezuelan Central Bank typically releases data regarding the national inflation level at the beginning of each month, but analysts from the Bank have yet to release any inflation information for 2015. It almost seems that the Central Bank looked at the country’s 69% inflation rate during December 2014, and…