Venezuela: Where Life is Chaos

Visions of Venezuela

Massive protest against Pres. Nicolas Maduro. Caracas, Venezuela on February 11, 2019.
The Holy Socialist Trinity. A group of people wearing protective masks walk by a mural of Hugo Chavez, Simón Bolivar and Nicolas Maduro in the impoverished neighborhood of Jose Felix Ribas, in Caracas, Venezuela on March 11 2020.
Kids play in a pool in a settlement where more than 30 families live side by side in the impoverished neighborhood of Petare during a COVID-19 Lockdown in Caracas, Venezuela on June 30, 2020.
Cars in line waiting to refuel the tanks of their vehicles in Caracas, Venezuela on September 09, 2020.
View of Caracas from the "Petare" neighborhood. Caracas, October 10, 2019.
Still waiting for someone to come save us. As one woman holds a U.S. flag on her balcony, her neighbor below hung the colors for Venezuela. Both are looking down on a massive protest against Pres. Nicolas Maduro in the streets below. Caracas, Venezuela on Febuary 11, 2019.
People wait in line at dawn, to enter a street market during a COVID-19 lockdown in the city of Caracas on August 28 2020.
A man walks by a mural of deceased president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, during a Covid-19 lockdown in Caracas, Venezuela on July 15, 2020.
A house is covered with old posters of deceased president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, in a settlement where 45 families live side by side with no access to drinking water and extreme sanitary conditions. Caracas, Venezuela, September 14 2020.
A man plucks a chicken for his client in a street market during a COVID-19 lockdown in Caracas, Venezuela on June 20, 2020.
Yugeidys and her 8 children sleep in a crowded space they built themselves. Known as a settlement, more than 30 families live here side by side. They have no access to drinking water. Sanitary conditions are abysmal. They all suffer respiratory ailments but have no access to medicines. Caracas, Venezuela, June 30, 2020.
People fill plastic containers with water from a tank truck due to the lack of running water. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Venezuelans face a lack of public services, including running water. Caracas, Venezuela, September 13, 2020.
Always watching over us. Pedestrians make their way past the staircase of "El Calvario" (Calvary) and the haunting mosaic of deceased President Hugo Chavez' eyes. Caracas, Venezuela on July 1, 2020.
They go forth at dawn. A street market offers people a chance to not only shop for bargains, but to sell produce to earn money to feed their families. Fears of COVID-19 compete with the constant anxiety over their economic plight. Caracas, Venezuela on August 28 2020.
Men carry a coffin in the middle of a street in the neighborhood of "Ruiz Pineda." in Caracas, Venezuela.
A statue of Jesus is seen with a face mask amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Caracas on August 08 2020.

Venezuela: Life Is Chaos
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Jim Clancy,

Gabriela Oraa,

Ingrid Arnesen and

Aurora Hererra | November 3, 2020
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro remains entrenched in Caracas despite more than 6 years of U.S. sanctions. Mr. Maduro sells off the nation's vast oil and gold resources to reward loyalists, exploits the splintered opposition, and benefits from economic and diplomatic support from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries. Meantime, Venezuela's 30 million people are suffering through the worst economic crisis in a century. An estimated 5 million have fled the country. Those who remain face shortages of food, fuel, clean water and a viable healthcare system in the era of coronavirus. Incomes have been obliterated by mismanagement, corruption and hyperinflation.

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Voices of Venezuela

In one on one interviews they talk about their lives and the challenges they and their families face
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Ana María Matute and

Ingrid Arnesen | November 3, 2020
Venezuelans today are torn at every level. Between two current Presidents, two current Parliaments, two socialist rulers over 20 years, first with the popular Hugo Chavez and today the unpopular Nicolas Maduro. Two decades of noose-tightening by the U.S. to topple the socialist reign sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world have succeeded […]

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Journalism is an Escape in a Devastated Venezuela

A Venezuelan journalist speaks frankly about her own personal struggle in a country whose economy has collapsed and health care system is unable to provide relief
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Ana María Matute | November 3, 2020
I have cancer. I have stage IV lung cancer and have never smoked in my life. I was diagnosed a year ago after a few months where I couldn't breathe well. Despite this great difficulty, I did not stop attending my job as head of World Information and Economy at El Nacional web.

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