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The modest recovery of recent years fails to mask Venezuela’s crisis: a shattered productive structure, poverty levels nearly ...

From 2014 to 2021, Venezuela suffered one of the worst economic crises in modern history. The economy contracted by 86 percent. Poverty rose to an estimated 96 percent in 2019. Inflation reached ...

Among the figures he gave during his speech, the poverty indicators managed by the ... of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, is not recognized by part of the international community.

In fact, Venezuela’s per capita GDP reached its all-time low in 2003, under Chávez. This is no surprise: Making well-off countries poor and poor countries starving is what socialists do.

The federal Chapter 9 bankruptcy declaration by the Puerto Rican (PR) government in May 2017 was the first time a US ...

They were plucked from pharmacies, apartment buildings and other locations, and thrown in prison for months. Many then endured severe beatings, food deprivation and other forms of torture. Virtually ...

Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro claims election ... “And so began a complex crisis that has pushed millions into poverty and driven more than seven million Venezuelans to migrate.” ...

Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - After the elections held in July last year (see Fides, 30/7/2024), there is an impression that an air of sadness, frustration and disappointment is hanging over ...