NGO Médicos Unidos Venezuela reported 408 healthcare workers had died from of COVID-19 by March 29th. If we trust the official figures, that means one out of every four coronavirus victims was a worker of the healthcare sector
Desperate people looking online for oxygen concentrators or money for treatment, more and more complaints over the low availability of hospital beds and concern about the Brazilian variant, even inside the regime. What do we actually know?
As Venezuela lags behind other Latin American countries in the vaccination efforts against COVID-19, a small and heavily politicized vaccination campaign seems imminent, sponsored by Putin’s Russia
Almost one year after the start of the pandemic, Venezuela reports remarkably lower figures than its neighbours, but that’s due to the government’s unwillingness to scale up diagnosis
The interim results from an ongoing phase 3 trial show their vaccine candidate presents a 90% efficacy preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infection. But it’s hard to imagine having mass distribution in countries with severe energy deficits
Venezuela's commercial airways are closed since the beginning of the pandemic. This is the story of a family's struggle to get two 80-year-olds out of the country with a black market flight
A crowdfunding campaign has successfully achieved the goal of their pilot program: help 100 doctors and nurses with a $100 contribution during the pandemic. Now Valiu wants to reach all nurses fighting COVID-19 in Mérida, and they need our help.
New challenges have been added to dollarization and bureaucratic chaos for those who are trying to say goodbye to their loved ones, from fuel shortages to safety measures against the pandemic
If you have no choice but to return to Venezuela by land, be ready to share bathrooms and bedrooms with strangers, endure many mysterious tests, and learn to survive like you’re in prison
Thousands of Venezuelans are stuck outside of their home country. Unlike the dire situation of migrants coming back home, Venezuelan travelers are invisible to the support of governments, and have had to organize to re-enter the country
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