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href="#Poverty"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Poverty</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Poverty-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Food_and_water" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Food_and_water"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Food and water</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Food_and_water-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Health_care" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Health_care"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Health care</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Health_care-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2019_Human_Rights_Watch/Johns_Hopkins_report" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2019_Human_Rights_Watch/Johns_Hopkins_report"> <div 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krize_ve_Venezuele" title="Krize ve Venezuele – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Krize ve Venezuele" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliitiline_ja_majanduskriis_Venezuelas" title="Poliitiline ja majanduskriis Venezuelas – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Poliitiline ja majanduskriis Venezuelas" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_en_Venezuela" title="Crisis en Venezuela – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Crisis en Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelako_krisia" title="Venezuelako krisia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Venezuelako krisia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7" title="بحران ونزوئلا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بحران ونزوئلا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crise_du_Venezuela" title="Crise du Venezuela – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" 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style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="display:inline;" class="location">Venezuela</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Caused by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Revolution</a> and presidency of <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a></li> <li>Desire for Hugo Chávez to seek a third term as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Venezuela" title="President of Venezuela">President of Venezuela</a></li> <li>Economic crisis caused by the failure of the country's <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez government">economic policies</a></li> <li>Continued decline in oil prices since the <a 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decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Socialist_red_flag.svg/35px-Socialist_red_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Socialist_red_flag.svg/45px-Socialist_red_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Tareck_El_Aissami" title="Tareck El Aissami">Tareck El Aissami</a> </p> </div> <div> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela"><img alt="Venezuela" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Leopoldo_L%C3%B3pez" title="Leopoldo López">Leopoldo López</a></b><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela"><img alt="Venezuela" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a></b><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela"><img alt="Venezuela" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Venezuela_%281930%E2%80%932006%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Henrique_Capriles" title="Henrique Capriles">Henrique Capriles</a><br /><span 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks vcard hlist"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Crisis in Venezuela</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Crisis_in_Bolivarian_Venezuela.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Crisis_in_Bolivarian_Venezuela.svg/120px-Crisis_in_Bolivarian_Venezuela.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Crisis_in_Bolivarian_Venezuela.svg/180px-Crisis_in_Bolivarian_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Crisis_in_Bolivarian_Venezuela.svg/240px-Crisis_in_Bolivarian_Venezuela.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="721" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#eee"> Causes</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_administration" title="Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez administration">Economic policy of Hugo Chávez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_administration" title="Economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro administration">Economic policy of Nicolás Maduro</a></li></ul> </div> <hr /></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#eee"> Effects</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="Venezuelan refugee crisis">Refugee crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_crisis_in_Venezuela" title="Energy crisis in Venezuela">Energy crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_blackouts" title="2019 Venezuelan blackouts">2019 blackouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_blackouts" title="2024 Venezuelan blackouts">2024 blackouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zulia_energy_collapse" title="Zulia energy collapse">Zulia energy collapse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_defection" title="Venezuelan crisis defection">Defections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela" title="Hyperinflation in Venezuela">Hyperinflation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Venezuelan_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis">International sanctions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interventions_of_political_parties_in_Venezuela" title="Interventions of political parties in Venezuela">Interventions of political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">Shortages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Venezuela" title="Censorship in Venezuela">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catatumbo_campaign" title="Catatumbo campaign">Catatumbo campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_xenophobia_during_the_Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="List of incidents of xenophobia during the Venezuelan refugee crisis">Xenophobic incidents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pemon_conflict" title="Pemon conflict">Pemon conflict</a></li></ul> </div> <hr /></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#eee"> Events</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dakazo" title="Dakazo">Dakazo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Salida" title="La Salida">La Salida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Ledezma" title="Antonio Ledezma">Detention of Antonio Ledezma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Venezuelan_recall_referendum_project" title="2016 Venezuelan recall referendum project">2016 recall movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_constitutional_crisis" title="2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis">2017 constitutional crisis|</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_presidential_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 Nicolás Maduro presidential campaign">2018 Nicolás Maduro re-election campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" title="Venezuelan presidential crisis">Presidential crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_shipping_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela" title="2019 shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela">2019 shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuela_Aid_Live" title="Venezuela Aid Live">Venezuela Aid Live</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Venezuelan_recall_referendum_project" title="2022 Venezuelan recall referendum project">2022 recall movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Unitary_Platform_presidential_primaries" title="2023 Unitary Platform presidential primaries">2023 Unitary Platform presidential primaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_political_crisis" title="2024 Venezuelan political crisis">2024 Venezuelan political crisis</a></li></ul> </div> <hr /></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#eee"> Elections</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2013 Venezuelan presidential election">2013 presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election">2015 parliamentary election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_referendum" title="2017 Venezuelan referendum">2017 referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_Constituent_Assembly_election" title="2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election">2017 Constituent Assembly election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2018 Venezuelan presidential election">2018 presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election">2020 parliamentary election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Venezuelan_referendum" title="2023 Venezuelan referendum">2023 referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">2024 presidential election</a></li></ul> </div> <hr /></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#eee"> <a href="/wiki/Protests_against_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Protests against Nicolás Maduro">Protests</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Venezuelan_presidential_election_protests" title="2013 Venezuelan presidential election protests">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Venezuelan_protests" title="2014 Venezuelan protests">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests" title="2017 Venezuelan protests">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_protests" title="2019 Venezuelan protests">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#eee"> Timeline</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2014_Venezuelan_protests" title="Timeline of the 2014 Venezuelan protests">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2015_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2015 Venezuelan protests">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2016_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2016 Venezuelan protests">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2017_Venezuelan_protests" title="Timeline of the 2017 Venezuelan protests">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2018_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2018 Venezuelan protests">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019_Venezuelan_protests" title="Timeline of the 2019 Venezuelan protests">2019</a></li></ul> </div> <hr /></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#eee"> Armed violence</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caracas_helicopter_incident" title="Caracas helicopter incident">Caracas helicopter incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_National_Assembly_attack" title="2017 Venezuelan National Assembly attack">2017 National Assembly attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Fort_Paramacay" title="Attack on Fort Paramacay">Attack on Fort Paramacay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Junquito_raid" title="El Junquito raid">El Junquito raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caracas_drone_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Caracas drone attack">Caracas drone attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_uprising_attempt" title="2019 Venezuelan uprising attempt">2019 uprising attempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Barquisimeto_shooting" title="2020 Barquisimeto shooting">2020 Barquisimeto shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)" title="Operation Gideon (2020)">Operation Gideon (2020)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Apure_clashes" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Apure clashes">2021 Apure clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Arauca_clashes" title="2022 Arauca clashes">2022 Arauca clashes</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below" style="border-top:#aaa 1px solid; border-bottom:#aaa 1px solid;"> <span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/16px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/24px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/32px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Venezuela" title="Portal:Venezuela">Venezuela&#32;portal</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" 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title="Template talk:Crisis in Venezuela sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Crisis_in_Venezuela_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Crisis in Venezuela sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>An ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis began in <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> during the presidency of <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a> and has worsened during the presidency of successor <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a>. It has been marked by <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation" title="Hyperinflation">hyperinflation</a>, escalating starvation,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> disease, crime and mortality rates, resulting in <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="Venezuelan refugee crisis">massive emigration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Larmer-1-11-18_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larmer-1-11-18-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is the worst economic crisis in Venezuela's history, and the worst facing a country in peacetime since the mid-20th century. The crisis is often considered more severe than the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">Great Depression in the United States</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1985%E2%80%931994_Brazilian_economic_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="1985–1994 Brazilian economic crisis">1985–1994 Brazilian economic crisis</a>, or the 2008–2009 <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe" title="Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe">hyperinflation in Zimbabwe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Writers have compared aspects, such as unemployment and GDP contraction, to that of <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> after the 1992–95 <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a>, and those in <a href="/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisis" title="1998 Russian financial crisis">Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special_Period" title="Special Period">Cuba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Albanian Civil War">Albania</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">Revolutions of 1989</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WartimeEconomy3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WartimeEconomy3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYRoB-20183_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYRoB-20183-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2010, Chávez declared an "economic war" due to increasing <a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">shortages in Venezuela</a>. The crisis intensified under the Maduro government, growing more severe as a result of <a href="/wiki/2010s_oil_glut" title="2010s oil glut">low oil prices in 2015</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Mariana_Zuñiga_and_Anthony_Faiola_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mariana_Zuñiga_and_Anthony_Faiola-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and a drop in oil production from lack of maintenance and investment.<sup id="cite_ref-Larmer-1-11-183_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larmer-1-11-183-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In January 2016, the opposition-led National Assembly declared a "health humanitarian crisis".<sup id="cite_ref-ANDeclara_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANDeclara-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The government failed to cut spending in the face of falling oil revenues, denied the existence of a crisis,<sup id="cite_ref-el-nacional.com_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-el-nacional.com-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and violently <a href="/wiki/Political_repression" title="Political repression">repressed opposition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Larmer-1-11-183_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larmer-1-11-183-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SecondDay3_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SecondDay3-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Extrajudicial_killings" class="mw-redirect" title="Extrajudicial killings">Extrajudicial killings</a> by the government became common, with the UN reporting 5,287 killings by the <a href="/wiki/Special_Action_Forces" title="Special Action Forces">Special Action Forces</a> in 2017, with at least another 1,569 killings in the first six months of 2019, stating some killings were "done as a reprisal for [the victims'] participation in anti-government demonstrations."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">Political corruption</a>, chronic shortages of food and medicine, closure of businesses, unemployment, deterioration of productivity, <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">authoritarianism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_violations" class="mw-redirect" title="Human rights violations">human rights violations</a>, gross economic mismanagement and high dependence on oil have contributed to the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-B&amp;C20113_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-B&amp;C20113-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-economia.uol3_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economia.uol3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a response to human rights abuses, the degradation in the rule of law, and corruption, the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lima_Group" title="Lima Group">Lima Group</a>, the US and other countries have applied sanctions against government officials and members of the military and security forces.<sup id="cite_ref-sanctions2_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sanctions2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The US extended its sanctions to the petroleum sector. Supporters of Chávez and Maduro said the problems result from an "economic war" on Venezuela,<sup id="cite_ref-GDPShrink2_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GDPShrink2-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> falling oil prices, <a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Venezuelan_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis">international sanctions</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the business elite, while critics of the government say the cause is economic mismanagement and corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most observers cite anti-democratic governance,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> corruption,<sup id="cite_ref-B&amp;C20113_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-B&amp;C20113-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and mismanagement of the economy as causes.<sup id="cite_ref-economia.uol3_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economia.uol3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Others attribute the crisis to the "<a href="/wiki/Socialism_of_the_21st_century" title="Socialism of the 21st century">socialist</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "<a href="/wiki/Populist" class="mw-redirect" title="Populist">populist</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or "hyper-populist" nature of the government's policies,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the use of these to maintain political power.<sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch20133_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch20133-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-STRATexpensive2_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STRATexpensive2-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chosun_Ilbo_populism2_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chosun_Ilbo_populism2-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> National and international analysts and economists stated the crisis is not the result of a conflict, natural disaster, or sanctions, but the consequences of populist policies and corrupt practices that began under the Chávez administration's <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Revolution</a> and continued under Maduro.<sup id="cite_ref-:23_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:23-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch201322_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch201322-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The crisis has affected the life of the average Venezuelan on all levels. By 2017, hunger had escalated to the point where almost 75% of the population had lost an average of over 8&#160;kg (over 19&#160;lbs)<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and more than half did not have enough income to meet their basic food needs.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters29Mar3_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters29Mar3-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2021 20% of Venezuelans (5.4 million) had left the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Venezuela_situation_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venezuela_situation-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MHaug193_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MHaug193-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The UN analysis estimates in 2019 that 25% of Venezuelans needed some form of humanitarian assistance.<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC3_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC3-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Following increased international sanctions throughout 2019, the Maduro government abandoned policies established by Chávez such as price and currency controls, which resulted in the country seeing a temporary rebound from economic decline before <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela">COVID</a> entered Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-Venezuela&#39;s_timid_gains_in_taming_i_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venezuela&#39;s_timid_gains_in_taming_i-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a response to the devaluation of the official <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_bol%C3%ADvar" title="Venezuelan bolívar">bolívar currency</a>, by 2019 the population increasingly started relying on US dollars for transactions.<sup id="cite_ref-Maduro_says_&#39;thank_God&#39;_for_dollari_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maduro_says_&#39;thank_God&#39;_for_dollari-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the national Living Conditions Survey (ENCOVI), by 2021 95% of the population was living in poverty based on income, out of which 77% lived under extreme poverty, the highest figure ever recorded in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2022, after the implementation of mild <a href="/wiki/Economic_liberalization" title="Economic liberalization">economic liberalization</a>, poverty decreased and the economy grew for the first time in 8 years. Despite these improvements, Venezuela continues to have the highest rate of inequality in the Americas. Although food shortages and hyperinflation have largely ended, inflation remains high.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Venezuela_(1999%E2%80%93present)" title="History of Venezuela (1999–present)">History of Venezuela (1999–present)</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chávez_presidency"><span id="Ch.C3.A1vez_presidency"></span>Chávez presidency</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Chávez presidency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After <a href="/wiki/1992_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempts" class="mw-redirect" title="1992 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état attempts">attempting a coup d'état in 1992</a> and being pardoned by President <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Caldera" title="Rafael Caldera">Rafael Caldera</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a> was elected president and maintained the presidency from 1999 until his death in 2013. Increasing oil prices in the early 2000s led to levels of funds not seen in Venezuela since the 1980s. Chávez established <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_missions" title="Bolivarian missions">Bolivarian missions</a>, aimed at providing public services to improve economic, cultural, and social conditions.<sup id="cite_ref-PAHO54_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PAHO54-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-http_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-http-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Barreiro_C_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barreiro_C-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Corrales and Penfold, "aid was disbursed to <i>some</i> of the poor and, more gravely, in a way that ended up helping the president and his allies and cronies more than anyone else". Nonetheless, poverty was cut more than 20 percent between 2002 and 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Missions entailed the construction of thousands of free medical clinics for the poor,<sup id="cite_ref-PAHO54_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PAHO54-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the enactment of food<sup id="cite_ref-Barreiro_C_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barreiro_C-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and housing subsidies.<sup id="cite_ref-http_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-http-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A 2010 <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">OAS</a> report<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> indicated achievements in addressing illiteracy, healthcare and poverty,<sup id="cite_ref-IACHRRequests_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IACHRRequests-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and economic and social advances.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The quality of life for Venezuelans had also improved according to a UN Index.<sup id="cite_ref-UN_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Teresa_A._Meade" class="mw-redirect" title="Teresa A. Meade">Teresa A. Meade</a> wrote that Chávez's popularity strongly depended "on the lower classes who have benefited from these health initiatives and similar policies."<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <i><a href="/wiki/Chosun_Ilbo" class="mw-redirect" title="Chosun Ilbo">Chosun Ilbo</a></i>, Venezuela began to face economic difficulties due to Chávez's populist policies.<sup id="cite_ref-Chosun_Ilbo_populism_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chosun_Ilbo_populism-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 2 June 2010, Chávez declared an "economic war" due to increasing <a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">shortages in Venezuela</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ECONwarCHAVEZ_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECONwarCHAVEZ-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">Political corruption</a>, chronic shortages of food and medicine, closure of businesses, unemployment, deterioration of productivity, <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">authoritarianism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_violations" class="mw-redirect" title="Human rights violations">human rights violations</a>, gross economic mismanagement and high dependence on oil have also contributed to the worsening crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-B&amp;C2011_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-B&amp;C2011-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UPI75_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPI75-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-economia.uol_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economia.uol-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The social works initiated by Chávez's government relied on <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">oil products</a>, the keystone of the Venezuelan economy, leading to <a href="/wiki/Dutch_disease" title="Dutch disease">Dutch disease</a> according to Javier Corrales.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch2013_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch2013-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USVEN_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USVEN-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the early 2010s, economic actions taken by Chávez's government during the preceding decade, such as overspending<sup id="cite_ref-NPRdec2014_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRdec2014-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ELPAISfeb2015_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELPAISfeb2015-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch2013_68-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch2013-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and price controls,<sup id="cite_ref-Barreiro_C_57-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barreiro_C-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ByNfood_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ByNfood-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> became unsustainable. Venezuela's economy faltered while <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-UN_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPpoverty_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPpoverty-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and shortages in Venezuela increased. According to Martinez Lázaro, professor of economics at the IE Business School in Madrid, the economic woes Venezuela continued to suffer under Maduro would have occurred even if Chávez were still in power.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In early 2013, shortly after Chávez's death, <i><a href="/wiki/Foreign_Policy" title="Foreign Policy">Foreign Policy</a></i> stated that whoever succeeded Chávez would "inherit one of the most dysfunctional economies in the Americas—and just as the bill for the deceased leader's policies comes due."<sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch2013_68-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch2013-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maduro_presidency">Maduro presidency</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Maduro presidency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cabello,_Maduro,_Flores.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cabello%2C_Maduro%2C_Flores.jpg/325px-Cabello%2C_Maduro%2C_Flores.jpg" decoding="async" width="325" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cabello%2C_Maduro%2C_Flores.jpg/488px-Cabello%2C_Maduro%2C_Flores.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cabello%2C_Maduro%2C_Flores.jpg/650px-Cabello%2C_Maduro%2C_Flores.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2951" data-file-height="2063" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Diosdado_Cabello" title="Diosdado Cabello">Diosdado Cabello</a> beside <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> and his wife, <a href="/wiki/Cilia_Flores" title="Cilia Flores">Cilia Flores</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Following Chávez's death in 2013, <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> became president after defeating his opponent <a href="/wiki/Henrique_Capriles" title="Henrique Capriles">Henrique Capriles Radonski</a> by 235,000 votes, a 1.5% margin.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro continued most of the <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez government">existing economic policies of his predecessor Chávez</a>. Upon entering the presidency, his administration faced a high inflation rate and large shortages of goods,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-qz.com_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-qz.com-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-economist.com_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist.com-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> problems left over from Chávez's policies.<sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch2013_68-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch2013-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPRdec2014_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRdec2014-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ELPAISfeb2015_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELPAISfeb2015-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-unstable_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unstable-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maduro said capitalist <a href="/wiki/Speculation" title="Speculation">speculation</a> had driven high rates of inflation and created widespread shortages of basic necessities. He enacted economic measures against political opponents, who he and loyalists stated were behind an international economic conspiracy.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro was criticized for concentrating on public opinion, instead of tending to practical issues which economists had warned about, or creating ideas to improve Venezuela's economic prospects.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2014, Venezuela had entered an <a href="/wiki/Economic_recession" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic recession">economic recession</a><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and by 2016, the country had an inflation rate of 800%, the highest in its history.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters2016Inflation_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters2016Inflation-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPblackbox_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPblackbox-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The crisis intensified under the Maduro government, growing more severe as a result of <a href="/wiki/2010s_oil_glut" title="2010s oil glut">low oil prices in early 2015</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Mariana_Zuñiga_and_Anthony_Faiola_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mariana_Zuñiga_and_Anthony_Faiola-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and a drop in Venezuela's oil production from lack of maintenance and investment.<sup id="cite_ref-Larmer-1-11-18_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larmer-1-11-18-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The government failed to cut spending in the face of falling oil revenues, and has dealt with the crisis by denying its existence<sup id="cite_ref-el-nacional.com_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-el-nacional.com-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and violently repressing opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-Larmer-1-11-18_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larmer-1-11-18-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SecondDay3_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SecondDay3-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Extrajudicial killings by the Venezuelan government became common, with the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> (UN) reporting 5,287 killings by the <a href="/wiki/Special_Action_Forces" title="Special Action Forces">Special Action Forces</a> (FAES) in 2017, with at least another 1,569 killings recorded in the first six months of 2019; the UN had "reasonable grounds to believe that many of these killings constitute extrajudicial executions" and characterized the security operations as "aimed at neutralizing, repressing and criminalizing political opponents and people critical of the government". The UN also stated that the Special Action Forces "would plant arms and drugs and fire their weapons against the walls or in the air to suggest a confrontation and to show the victim had resisted authority" and that some of the killings were "done as a reprisal for [the victims'] participation in anti-government demonstrations."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2016, the National Assembly declared a "health humanitarian crisis" given the "serious shortage of medicines, medical supplies and deterioration of humanitarian infrastructure", asking Maduro's government to "guarantee immediate access to the list of essential medicines that are basic and indispensable and that must be accessible at all times."<sup id="cite_ref-ANDeclara_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANDeclara-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August, <a href="/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations" title="Secretary-General of the United Nations">Secretary-General of the United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> declared that there was a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela caused by the lack of basic needs, including food, water, sanitation and clothing.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Before the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" title="Venezuelan presidential crisis">2019 presidential crisis</a>, the Maduro government denied several offers of aid, stating that there was not a humanitarian crisis and that such claims were used to justify foreign intervention.<sup id="cite_ref-Bundle1_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bundle1-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro's refusal of aid worsened the effects of Venezuela's crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-Bundle1_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bundle1-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2019, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> said that "Mr. Maduro has long used food and other government handouts to pressure impoverished Venezuelans to attend pro-government rallies and to support him during elections as the country's economic meltdown has intensified."<sup id="cite_ref-AidEffort_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AidEffort-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2019, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i> wrote that the Maduro government had obtained "extra money from selling gold (both from illegal mines and from its reserves) and narcotics".<sup id="cite_ref-:5_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Elections_and_protests">Elections and protests</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Elections and protests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_protests_(2014%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan protests (2014–present)">Venezuelan protests (2014–present)</a>, <a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_Constituent_Assembly_election" title="2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election">2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election</a>, <a href="/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2018 Venezuelan presidential election">2018 Venezuelan presidential election</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" title="Venezuelan presidential crisis">Venezuelan presidential crisis</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manifestaci%C3%B3n_en_apoyo_a_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Manifestaci%C3%B3n_en_apoyo_a_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro.jpg/325px-Manifestaci%C3%B3n_en_apoyo_a_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro.jpg" decoding="async" width="325" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Manifestaci%C3%B3n_en_apoyo_a_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro.jpg/488px-Manifestaci%C3%B3n_en_apoyo_a_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Manifestaci%C3%B3n_en_apoyo_a_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro.jpg/650px-Manifestaci%C3%B3n_en_apoyo_a_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7360" data-file-height="4912" /></a><figcaption>Venezuelans demonstrating during the <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2016_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2016 Venezuelan protests">2016 Venezuelan protests</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guaid%C3%B3_rebelde.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Guaid%C3%B3_rebelde.png/300px-Guaid%C3%B3_rebelde.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Guaid%C3%B3_rebelde.png/450px-Guaid%C3%B3_rebelde.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Guaid%C3%B3_rebelde.png/600px-Guaid%C3%B3_rebelde.png 2x" data-file-width="8224" data-file-height="4208" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_uprising_attempt" title="2019 Venezuelan uprising attempt">2019 Venezuelan uprising</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Since 2010, Venezuela has been suffering a socioeconomic crisis under Maduro, and briefly under his predecessor, Chávez.<sup id="cite_ref-SecondDay3_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SecondDay3-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-unstable_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unstable-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch20132_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch20132-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result of discontent with the government, in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election">2015 parliamentary election</a> the opposition was elected to the majority in the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly (Venezuela)">National Assembly</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NYTmuzzle_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTmuzzle-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> after which the outgoing (<a href="/wiki/Lame_duck_(politics)" title="Lame duck (politics)">lame duck</a>) National Assembly—consisting of <a href="/wiki/Bolivarianism" title="Bolivarianism">Bolivarian</a> officials—filled the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(Venezuela)" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)">Supreme Tribunal of Justice</a>, the highest court in Venezuela, with Maduro allies.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTmuzzle_93-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTmuzzle-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maduro disavowed the National Assembly in 2017 leading to the <a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_constitutional_crisis" title="2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis">2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as of 2018, some considered the National Assembly the only "legitimate" institution left in the country,<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and human rights organizations said there were no independent institutional checks on presidential power.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests" title="2017 Venezuelan protests">Protests grew</a> to their most "combative" since they began in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 1 May 2017, Maduro called for a <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional Assembly">constituent assembly</a> that would draft a new constitution to replace the <a href="/wiki/1999_Venezuela_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 Venezuela Constitution">1999 Venezuela Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-USAmay_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USAmay-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The members of the Constituent Assembly would not be elected in open elections, but selected from social organizations loyal to Maduro.<sup id="cite_ref-USAmay_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USAmay-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It would also allow him to stay in power during the <a href="/wiki/Interregnum" title="Interregnum">interregnum</a> and skip the <a href="/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2018 Venezuelan presidential election">2018 presidential elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many countries considered these actions a bid by Maduro to stay in power indefinitely,<sup id="cite_ref-suspended_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suspended-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and over 40&#160;countries, along with NGOs, stated that they would not recognize the <a href="/wiki/2017_Constituent_National_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Constituent National Assembly">2017 Constituent National Assembly</a> (ANC).<sup id="cite_ref-40nos_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40nos-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VoteRigging_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VoteRigging-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EU1_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU1-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BLOOLmerc_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BLOOLmerc-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unity_Roundtable" title="Democratic Unity Roundtable">Democratic Unity Roundtable</a>&#8212;the opposition to the incumbent ruling party&#8212;boycotted the election,<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_Pole" title="Great Patriotic Pole">Great Patriotic Pole</a>, dominated by the <a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party of Venezuela</a>, won almost all seats in the assembly by default.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ANC was sworn in on 4 August 2017,<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the next day declared itself to be the government branch with supreme power in Venezuela, banning the opposition-led National Assembly from performing actions that would interfere with the assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2018 Maduro called presidential elections, four months before the prescribed date.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCweighs_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCweighs-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There were many irregularities, including the banning from standing of several major opposition parties. Maduro was declared the winner in May 2018. Many said the elections were invalid.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Politicians both internally and internationally said Maduro was not legitimately elected,<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and considered him an ineffective dictator.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the months leading up to his 10 January 2019 inauguration, Maduro was pressured to step down by nations and bodies including the <a href="/wiki/Lima_Group" title="Lima Group">Lima Group</a> (excluding Mexico), the United States, and the OAS; this pressure was increased after the new National Assembly of Venezuela was sworn in on 5 January 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SecondTerm_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SecondTerm-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis">2019 presidential crisis</a> came to a head when the National Assembly stated that the results of the May 2018 presidential election were invalid and declared National Assembly president <a href="/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a> to be the acting president, citing several clauses of the 1999 <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Venezuelan Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2024_Venezuelan_political_crisis">2024 Venezuelan political crisis</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: 2024 Venezuelan political crisis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_political_crisis" title="2024 Venezuelan political crisis">2024 Venezuelan political crisis</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_political_crisis" title="2024 Venezuelan political crisis">2024 Venezuelan political crisis</a> is the crisis that continued after the <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">2024 Venezuelan presidential election</a> results were announced.<sup id="cite_ref-FacesSetback_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FacesSetback-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kurmanaev-NYT-6-8-2024_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kurmanaev-NYT-6-8-2024-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DragsOn_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DragsOn-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro ran for a third consecutive term, while former diplomat <a href="/wiki/Edmundo_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Urrutia" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmundo González Urrutia">Edmundo González Urrutia</a> represented the <a href="/wiki/Unitary_Platform" title="Unitary Platform">Unitary Platform</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <i lang="es">Plataforma Unitaria Democrática</i>; PUD), the main opposition political alliance, after the <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuelan</a> government barred leading candidate <a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado" title="María Corina Machado">María Corina Machado</a> from participating.<sup id="cite_ref-MCM_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCM-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Academics, news outlets and the opposition provided "strong evidence" according to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianEvidenceShows_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianEvidenceShows-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to suggest that González won the election by a wide margin.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBC2Aug_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC2Aug-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The government-controlled <a href="/wiki/National_Electoral_Council_(Venezuela)" title="National Electoral Council (Venezuela)">National Electoral Council</a> (CNE) announced results claiming a narrow Maduro victory on 29 July.<sup id="cite_ref-OAS_report_VE_pres_elec_DECO_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OAS_report_VE_pres_elec_DECO-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A 6 August article in <i>The New York Times</i> stated that the CNE declaration that Maduro won "plunged Venezuela into a political crisis that has claimed at least 22 lives in violent demonstrations, led to the jailing of more than 2,000 people and provoked global denunciation."<sup id="cite_ref-Kurmanaev-NYT-6-8-2024_131-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kurmanaev-NYT-6-8-2024-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the <a href="#Aftermath">aftermath</a> of the government's announcement of falsified results, <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">protests broke out across the country</a>, as the Maduro administration initiated <a href="/wiki/Operation_Tun_Tun" title="Operation Tun Tun">Operation Tun Tun</a>, a crackdown on dissent, and <a href="#Charges_and_arrests_of_other_politicians_and_journalists">detained opposition political figures</a> while refusing to relinquish power. Criminalization of protest was widely condemned by human rights organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-AICondemnViolence_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AICondemnViolence-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro did not acknowledge the results which showed him losing the election,<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianRefusal_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianRefusal-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and instead asked the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(Venezuela)" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)">Supreme Tribunal of Justice</a> (TSJ) on 1 August to audit and approve the results.<sup id="cite_ref-ReutersCourtRatifies_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReutersCourtRatifies-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-APCourtCertifies_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APCourtCertifies-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CriesFoul_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CriesFoul-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCStayinPower_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCStayinPower-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 22 August, as anticipated,<sup id="cite_ref-BBCStayinPower_144-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCStayinPower-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LoyaltoMaduro_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LoyaltoMaduro-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HandPicked_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HandPicked-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the TSJ described the CNE's statement of Maduro winning the election as "validated".<sup id="cite_ref-ReutersCourtRatifies_141-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReutersCourtRatifies-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Basic_needs">Basic needs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Basic needs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poverty">Poverty</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Poverty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Wall Street Journal</i> reported in March 2019 that poverty was double that of 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A study from <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Bello_Catholic_University" title="Andrés Bello Catholic University">Andrés Bello Catholic University</a> indicated that by 2019 at least 8&#160;million Venezuelans did not have enough to eat.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A UN report estimated in March 2019 that 94% of Venezuelans live in poverty, and that one quarter of Venezuelans need some form of <a href="/wiki/Humanitarian_assistance" title="Humanitarian assistance">humanitarian assistance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters29Mar_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters29Mar-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the Living Conditions Survey by the Andrés Bello Catholic University (Encovi in Spanish, <i>Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida</i>), by 2021 94.5% of the population was in poverty based on income, out of which 76.6% lived under extreme poverty, the highest figure ever recorded in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Food_and_water">Food and water</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Food and water"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>More than 70% of Venezuela's food is imported;<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela became so dependent on food imports that it could no longer afford when the price of oil dropped in 2014. Chávez gave the military control of food, and nationalized much of the industry, which was then neglected, leading to production shortages. With a "diminished food supply", Maduro put "generals in charge of everything from butter to rice".<sup id="cite_ref-MilitaryFood_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MilitaryFood-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With the military in charge of food, food trafficking became profitable, bribes and corruption common, and food did not reach the needy. The government imports most of the food the country needs, it is controlled by the military, and the price paid for food is higher than justified by market prices. Venezuelans were spending "all day waiting in lines" to buy <a href="/wiki/Rationed" class="mw-redirect" title="Rationed">rationed</a> food, "pediatric wards filled up with underweight children, and formerly middle-class adults began picking through rubbish bins for scraps".<sup id="cite_ref-MilitaryFood_150-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MilitaryFood-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuelans_searching_through_garbage,_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Venezuelans_searching_through_garbage%2C_2018.jpg/300px-Venezuelans_searching_through_garbage%2C_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Venezuelans_searching_through_garbage%2C_2018.jpg/450px-Venezuelans_searching_through_garbage%2C_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Venezuelans_searching_through_garbage%2C_2018.jpg/600px-Venezuelans_searching_through_garbage%2C_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1639" data-file-height="922" /></a><figcaption>A group of Venezuelans eating garbage on the streets of <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a> in May 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>Several other factors have led to shortages: imports over the two years until the end of 2017 declined by two-thirds; hyperinflation has made food too costly for many Venezuelans; and for those who depend on food boxes supplied by the government, "these do not reach all Venezuelans who need them, provision of boxes is intermittent, and receipt is often linked to political support of the government".<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Corruption became a problem in the distribution of food. The operations director at one food import business says "he pays off a long roster of military officials for each shipment of food he brings in from ... the US. It's an unbroken chain of bribery from when your ship comes in until the food is driven out in trucks."<sup id="cite_ref-MilitaryFood_150-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MilitaryFood-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_National_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan National Guard">National Guard</a> <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant" title="Lieutenant">lieutenant</a> denies this charge, saying corruption would be worse if the military were not involved; government and military officials say the opposition is overstating the corruption problem for their own benefit.<sup id="cite_ref-MilitaryFood_150-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MilitaryFood-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Retired General Antonio Rivero said that "Maduro is trying to prevent soldiers from going hungry and being tempted to participate in an uprising against an increasingly unpopular government", adding that using the military to control food distribution has "drained the feeling of rebellion from the armed forces" by giving soldiers access to food denied others, with the resulting corruption increasing shortages for the general public.<sup id="cite_ref-MilitaryFood_150-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MilitaryFood-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Colectivo_(Venezuela)" title="Colectivo (Venezuela)">colectivos</a></i> are also involved in food trafficking, selling food on the black market; a <i>colectivo</i> leader told <a href="/wiki/InSight_Crime" title="InSight Crime">InSight Crime</a> that trafficking food and medicine is as profitable as drug-running, but carries less risk.<sup id="cite_ref-Devolution_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Devolution-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With shadowy connections to the government, <i>The Washington Post</i> says "some have been put in charge of the distribution of government food packages in poor areas—giving them control over hungry neighborhoods."<sup id="cite_ref-Enforcers_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Enforcers-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Associated Press reports that people gather every evening in downtown Caracas in search of food thrown out on a sidewalk; the people are typically unemployed, but are "frequently joined by small business owners, college students and pensioners—people who consider themselves middle class even though their living standards have long ago been pulverized by triple-digit inflation, food shortages and a collapsing currency".<sup id="cite_ref-APGarbage_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APGarbage-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A waste collection official in Maracaibo reported that most of the trash bags he received had been gone through by people searching for food.<sup id="cite_ref-Flamingos_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flamingos-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One dump reports finding parts of dismembered animals, like "dogs, cats, donkeys, horses and pigeons" and there is evidence that people are eating wildlife such as anteaters, flamingos, vultures and lizards.<sup id="cite_ref-Flamingos_154-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flamingos-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Hunger, malnutrition, and severe food shortages are widespread in all Venezuela", according to Human Rights Watch.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Doctors at 21 public hospitals in 17 Venezuelan states told <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> in 2017 that "their emergency rooms were being overwhelmed by children with severe malnutrition—a condition they had rarely encountered before the economic crisis began", and that "hundreds have died". The government has responded with "a near-total blackout of health statistics, and by creating a culture in which doctors are often afraid to register cases and deaths that may be associated with the government's failures".<sup id="cite_ref-KOHUT_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KOHUT-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization" title="Food and Agriculture Organization">Food and Agriculture Organization</a> of the UN said that less than 5% of Venezuelans were undernourished between 2008 and 2013, but that number had more than doubled, to almost 12% from 2015 and 2017, representing 3.7 million people.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A 2016 survey found that almost three-quarters of the population said that, because of improper nutrition, they had lost on average 8.7&#160;kg (19.4&#160;lbs)<sup id="cite_ref-UPI75_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPI75-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and 64% said they lost 11&#160;kg (24&#160;lbs) in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-WeightLoss_157-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WeightLoss-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A 2016 Venebarometro poll of 1,200 Venezuelans found almost half are no longer able to eat three daily meals; the government blames this on an "economic war" they say is waged by the opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-APGarbage_153-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APGarbage-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A UN report said that because of lack of water and sanitation, 4.3 million Venezuelans needed assistance in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters29Mar_148-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters29Mar-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_blackouts" title="2019 Venezuelan blackouts">2019 Venezuelan blackouts</a> which started on 7 March, the water distribution system also had shortages.<sup id="cite_ref-DailyStruggle_159-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyStruggle-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Analysts said that two-thirds of Venezuela's population (20&#160;million people) were without water, partially or completely, in the weeks after the blackouts.<sup id="cite_ref-DailyStruggle_159-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyStruggle-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SwarmSewage_160-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SwarmSewage-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SeekingWater_161-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SeekingWater-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The head of the infectious disease department at the <a href="/wiki/Hospital_Cl%C3%ADnico_Universitario" title="Hospital Clínico Universitario">University Hospital of Caracas</a>, María Eugenia Landaeta said that, without access to clean water, the chance of people contracting bacterial infections increased, and that doctors had seen during the blackouts "surges in diarrhea, <a href="/wiki/Typhoid_fever" title="Typhoid fever">typhoid fever</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hepatitis_A" title="Hepatitis A">hepatitis A</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-DailyStruggle_159-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyStruggle-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> while non-sterile water and lack of hygiene was contributing to <a href="/wiki/Postpartum_infections" title="Postpartum infections">postpartum infections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DailyStruggle_159-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyStruggle-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2017, hunger had escalated to the point where almost seventy-five percent of the population had lost an average of over 8&#160;kg (over 19&#160;lbs) in weight<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and more than half did not have enough income to meet their basic food needs.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An UN report estimated in March 2019 that 94% of Venezuelans lived in poverty,<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters29Mar_148-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters29Mar-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and by 2021 almost twenty percent of Venezuelans (5.4 million) had left their country.<sup id="cite_ref-Venezuela_situation_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venezuela_situation-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MHaug193_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MHaug193-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The UN analysis estimates in 2019 that 25% of Venezuelans need some form of humanitarian assistance. Venezuela led the world in <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate" title="List of countries by intentional homicide rate">murder rates</a>, with 81.4 per 100,000 people killed in 2018, making it the third most violent country in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC_165-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Following increased international sanctions throughout 2019, the Maduro government abandoned policies established by Chávez such as price and currency controls, which resulted in the country seeing a temporary rebound from economic decline before <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela">COVID-19</a> entered Venezuela the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-Venezuela&#39;s_timid_gains_in_taming_i_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venezuela&#39;s_timid_gains_in_taming_i-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a response to the devaluation of the official <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_bol%C3%ADvar" title="Venezuelan bolívar">bolívar currency</a>, by 2019 the population increasingly started relying on US dollars for transactions. Maduro described dollarization as an "escape valve" that helps the recovery of the country, the spread of productive forces in the country and the economy. However, Maduro said that the Venezuelan bolívar remained as the national currency.<sup id="cite_ref-Maduro_says_&#39;thank_God&#39;_for_dollari_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maduro_says_&#39;thank_God&#39;_for_dollari-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_care">Health care</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Health care"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Health_care_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care in Venezuela">Health care in Venezuela</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela%27s_health_expenditure;_1999_-.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Venezuela%27s_health_expenditure%3B_1999_-.png/330px-Venezuela%27s_health_expenditure%3B_1999_-.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Venezuela%27s_health_expenditure%3B_1999_-.png/495px-Venezuela%27s_health_expenditure%3B_1999_-.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Venezuela%27s_health_expenditure%3B_1999_-.png/660px-Venezuela%27s_health_expenditure%3B_1999_-.png 2x" data-file-width="2150" data-file-height="1480" /></a><figcaption>Healthcare spending by percentage of Venezuela's GDP<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>During the Bolivarian Revolution, the government began providing free healthcare, with Cuban medical professionals providing aid. The government's failure to concentrate on healthcare and a reduction in spending on healthcare, along with unchecked government corruption resulted in avoidable deaths due to severe shortages of medical supplies and equipment, and the emigration of medical professionals to other countries.<sup id="cite_ref-BGapril2015_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BGapril2015-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPchavezcare_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPchavezcare-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela's reliance on imported goods and the complicated exchange rates initiated under Chávez led to increasing shortages during the late 2000s and into the 2010s that affected the availability of medicines and medical equipment in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-FPchavezcare_169-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPchavezcare-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Associated Press says the government stopped publishing medical statistics in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-APdoc_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APdoc-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Health Minister changed multiple times during Chávez's presidency. According to a high-ranking official of Venezuela's Health Ministry, the ministers were treated as scapegoats whenever issues with public health arose in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-FPchavezcare_169-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPchavezcare-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also said that officials of the Health Ministry engaged in corruption to enrich themselves by selling goods intended for public healthcare to others.<sup id="cite_ref-FPchavezcare_169-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPchavezcare-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Early in the Maduro presidency, the government could not supply enough money for medical supplies among healthcare providers, with the president of the Venezuelan Medical Federation saying that 9 of 10 large hospitals had only 7% of required supplies and private doctors reporting numbers of patients that are "impossible" to count "dying from easily treatable illnesses when Venezuela's downward economic slide accelerated after Chávez's death".<sup id="cite_ref-APdoc_170-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APdoc-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many Venezuelans died avoidable deaths with medical professionals having scarce resources and using methods that were replaced decades ago.<sup id="cite_ref-BGapril2015_168-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BGapril2015-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In February 2014, doctors at the University of Caracas Medical Hospital stopped performing surgeries due to the lack of supplies, even though nearly 3,000 people required surgery.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By early 2015, only 35% of hospital beds were available and 50% of operating rooms could not function due to the lack of resources.<sup id="cite_ref-BGapril2015_168-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BGapril2015-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPchavezcare_169-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPchavezcare-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March 2015, a Venezuelan NGO, Red de Medicos por la Salud, reported that there was a 68% shortage of surgical supplies and a 70% shortage of medicines in Venezuelan pharmacies.<sup id="cite_ref-FPchavezcare_169-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPchavezcare-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2018, the <a href="/wiki/Pan_American_Health_Organization" title="Pan American Health Organization">Pan American Health Organization</a> (PAHO) reported that approximately one-third (22,000 of 66,138) of registered physicians left Venezuela as of 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_DiCarlo" title="Rosemary DiCarlo">Rosemary DiCarlo</a> from the UN said that 40% of medical professionals had left Venezuela and supplies of medicine were at 20% of levels needed.<sup id="cite_ref-MortalitySoared_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MortalitySoared-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Venezuelan Medical Federation said that doctors were leaving the public health care system because of shortages of drugs and equipment and poor pay. In August 2015 <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> said "We have rarely seen access to essential medicines deteriorate as quickly as it has in Venezuela except in war zones."<sup id="cite_ref-TheTimes_173-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheTimes-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2015, the government reported that a third of patients admitted to public hospitals died.<sup id="cite_ref-NBC1in3_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC1in3-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The medications of individuals who die are re-distributed through small-scale and local efforts, with the help of the families of the deceased, to try to supply surviving patients.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>One study of 6,500 households by three of the main universities in Venezuela found that "74% of the population had lost on average nineteen pounds in 2016".<sup id="cite_ref-NYRoB-20183_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYRoB-20183-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In April 2017 Venezuela's health ministry reported that maternal mortality jumped by 65% in 2016 and that the number of infant deaths rose by 30%.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It also said that the number of cases of malaria was up by 76%.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Shortly after Minister of Health Antonieta Caporale released in 2017 this data, and health statistics showing increases in 2016 infant and maternal mortality and infectious diseases, Maduro fired her and replaced the physician with a pharmacist close to vice-president <a href="/wiki/Tareck_El_Aissami" title="Tareck El Aissami">Tareck El Aissami</a>, Luis López Chejade.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The publications were removed from the Ministry's website, and no further health data has been made available, although the government had produced health bulletins for several decades.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2019, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> reported that the "collapse of Venezuela's health system, once one of the best in Latin America, has led to a surge in infant and maternal mortality rates and a return of rare diseases that were considered all but eradicated. Health officials say malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue and tuberculosis are now spreading from Venezuela to neighboring countries as Venezuelan refugees surge over borders."<sup id="cite_ref-AidEffort_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AidEffort-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The United Nations estimated in 2019 that 2.8 million Venezuelans have healthcare needs, 300,000 are at risk of dying with cancer, diabetes or HIV as they have not had access to medicine for more than a year, and preventable diseases like diphtheria, malaria, measles and tuberculosis are rising in 2019, along with hepatitis A, because of sanitation and lack of access to water.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters29Mar_148-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters29Mar-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The April 2019 HRW/Johns Hopkins report showed this rise in infectious and preventable diseases, as well as increasing malnutrition, infant and maternal death, and undertreatment of <a href="/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianHRW_179-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianHRW-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Inflation and medicine shortages have meant that patients are asked to bring their own food, water and soap, and medical supplies including scalpels and syringes.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2019, as part of regional efforts to help Venezuelan migrants, the United States promised that it will provide thousands of doses of HIV medication to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to treat those who have it.<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2019_Human_Rights_Watch/Johns_Hopkins_report"><span id="2019_Human_Rights_Watch.2FJohns_Hopkins_report"></span>2019 Human Rights Watch/Johns Hopkins report</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: 2019 Human Rights Watch/Johns Hopkins report"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Parque_Cristal_Protestas_2017_09.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Parque_Cristal_Protestas_2017_09.jpg/300px-Parque_Cristal_Protestas_2017_09.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Parque_Cristal_Protestas_2017_09.jpg/450px-Parque_Cristal_Protestas_2017_09.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Parque_Cristal_Protestas_2017_09.jpg/600px-Parque_Cristal_Protestas_2017_09.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>Venezuelans <a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests" title="2017 Venezuelan protests">protesting in 2017</a> for medicine due to the <a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">shortages in Venezuela</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In April 2019, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_Bloomberg_School_of_Public_Health" title="Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a> published the results of a joint, year-long research project in a report entitled "Venezuela's humanitarian emergency: Large-scale UN response needed to address health and food crises".<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianHRW_179-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianHRW-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Combined with data from the <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> (WHO), the PAHO<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianHRW_179-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianHRW-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Venezuelan sources,<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the report was based on 156 interviews<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with Venezuelan emigrants to Colombia and Brazil, officials from relief and humanitarian organizations, Venezuelan health care professionals,<sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and UN and government officials from Brazil and Colombia.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most of the interviews occurred in July or August 2018 in visits by the experts to the Venezuelan border towns of <a href="/wiki/C%C3%BAcuta" title="Cúcuta">Cúcuta</a>, Colombia and <a href="/wiki/Boa_Vista,_Roraima" title="Boa Vista, Roraima">Boa Vista</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pacaraima" title="Pacaraima">Pacaraima</a>, Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Washington Post</i> stated that the HRW/Johns Hopkins report "paints an extremely grim picture of life in Venezuela, whose once-prosperous economy has imploded because of mismanagement and corruption under Maduro";<sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> it documents rising maternal and infant death, spread of preventable diseases, food insecurity, and child malnutrition.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> HRW declared that the "combination of severe medicine and food shortages ... with the spread of disease ... amounts to a complex humanitarian emergency that requires a full-scale response by the United Nations secretary-general."<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Washington Post</i> states that the report describes a healthcare system that is in "utter collapse", with diseases that are preventable via vaccination spreading, and "dramatic surges" in infectious diseases once eradicated in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The economic crisis in Venezuela started around 2010, and the health crisis followed by two years and significantly worsened in 2017, but the situation in 2019 "is even more dismal than researchers expected".<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Paul Spiegel, MD, who was the editor and reviewer of the report said, "Venezuela is a middle-income country with a previously strong infrastructure, so just to see this incredible decline ... in such a short period of time is quite astonishing."<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Paniz-Mondolfi" title="Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi">Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi</a>, a doctor in <a href="/wiki/Barquisimeto" title="Barquisimeto">Barquisimeto</a>, Venezuela who is a member of the Venezuelan National Academy of Medicine, told NPR that the report gave an accurate, thorough and timely depiction of the medical situation in his country; he had no affiliation with the report, but said that he had seen cases where there were not even <a href="/wiki/Catheter" title="Catheter">catheters</a> for hooking up children who appeared to have malnutrition for <a href="/wiki/Intravenous_therapy" title="Intravenous therapy">intravenous therapy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Spiegel adds that, because of the infrastructure and trained personnel in Venezuela, aid can be distributed quickly once delivered to Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Maduro administration response</dt></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New 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left-aligned" style=""> <p>On May 16, 2018, President Maduro said that "everything [that has been said] about measles and diphtheria is a lie, we vaccinate the whole community for free" and that "with regards to food, Venezuela has unique policies, which have enabled us to carry on with a program allowing us to maintain levels of food that are necessary for the people." Days later, the undersecretary of health, Indhriana Parada, gave a speech at WHO highlighting the "achievements" of the Venezuelan health system. She said that "in Venezuela there is no humanitarian crisis" and that "Venezuela guarantees access to basic medicines to the most vulnerable groups through distribution policies." In the case of malaria, she said that government measures had "reduced incidence by 50 percent".<br /> </p> <hr /> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">"Venezuela's humanitarian emergency: Large-scale UN response needed to address health and food crises".<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></p> </div> <p>The Maduro administration does not publish health statistics,<sup id="cite_ref-APdoc_170-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APdoc-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but rather it "paint[s] a rosy picture of its health care system".<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Guardian</i> reported Maduro's response to the country's health care crisis as "inadequate".<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianHRW_179-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianHRW-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "Because of the intransigence of President Nicolás Maduro—who has blamed deprivations on US sanctions and refused to allow anything beyond a trickle of assistance to enter the country"—aid has not been delivered quickly enough.<sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Reuters reported that "Maduro says there is no crisis and no need for humanitarian aid, blaming U.S. sanctions for the country's economic problems."<sup id="cite_ref-ReutersHRW_183-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReutersHRW-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela's Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Arreaza" title="Jorge Arreaza">Jorge Arreaza</a> did not respond to a letter asking for Venezuela's "views regarding the extent of the crisis and the policies it was implementing to address it" before the HRW/Johns Hopkins report was published.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The HRW summary of the HRW/Johns Hopkins report said, "The Venezuelan authorities during the presidency of Nicolás Maduro have proven unable to stem the crisis, and have in fact exacerbated it through their efforts to suppress information about the scale and urgency of the problems."<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Associated Press said Maduro "suppress[es] information" and has made the problem worse.<sup id="cite_ref-APHRW_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APHRW-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Americas director for HRW, José Miguel Vivanco said, "Venezuelan authorities publicly minimise and suppress information about the crisis, and harass and retaliate against those who collect data or speak out about it, while also doing far too little to alleviate it."<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianHRW_179-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianHRW-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The report discusses a teaching physician who said "residents are threatened with being expelled from the program or their hospital if they include a malnutrition diagnosis in medical records", causing malnutrition to be understated in Venezuelan data.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The report states that "many analysts have argued that the government's own policies have played a role in causing the economic crisis ... However, under the presidency of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan government has denied the crisis, hidden health statistics and data, harassed health professionals who speak out about the reality on the ground, and made it harder for sufficient humanitarian assistance to reach the Venezuelan people. Through these policies and practices, authorities have contributed to the worsening humanitarian crisis documented in this report."<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Economic,_Social_and_Cultural_Rights" title="International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights">International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights</a> (ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty ratified by Venezuela; it commits its parties to "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health", and the right to an adequate "standard of living" and "adequate food".<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Constitution of Venezuela provides for the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_health" title="Right to health">right to health</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The HRW/Johns Hopkins report states that, facing deteriorating health conditions, the government's suppression of information and actions against those speaking about the crisis "represent a violation of Venezuela's obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill the right to health" to which Venezuelans are entitled from both the ICESCR treaty and their Constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the April HRW/Johns Hopkins report, and amid announcements from the United Nations about the scale of the humanitarian crisis, along with increasing international pressure, Maduro met with the Red Cross, and it announced it would triple its budget for aid to Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-MaduroSoftens_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MaduroSoftens-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The increased aid would focus in four areas: the migration crisis, the health care system collapse, water and sanitation, and prisons and detention centers.<sup id="cite_ref-MaduroSoftens_187-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MaduroSoftens-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro, for the first time, indicated he was prepared to accept international aid—although denying a humanitarian crisis exists.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> said that the acceptance of humanitarian shipments by Maduro was his first acknowledgement that Venezuela is "suffering from an economic collapse",<sup id="cite_ref-AidEffort_90-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AidEffort-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <i>The Guardian</i> reported that Maduro's stance has softened in the face of increasing pressure.<sup id="cite_ref-MaduroSoftens_187-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MaduroSoftens-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Guaidó said the acceptance of humanitarian aid was the "result of our pressure and insistence",<sup id="cite_ref-AidEffort_90-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AidEffort-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and called on Venezuelans to "stay vigilant to make sure incoming aid is not diverted for 'corrupt' purposes".<sup id="cite_ref-WarnsAgainst_189-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarnsAgainst-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Infectious_and_preventable_diseases">Infectious and preventable diseases</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Infectious and preventable diseases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Malaria_in_Venezuela.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Malaria_in_Venezuela.png/300px-Malaria_in_Venezuela.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Malaria_in_Venezuela.png/450px-Malaria_in_Venezuela.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Malaria_in_Venezuela.png/600px-Malaria_in_Venezuela.png 2x" data-file-width="2010" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>From less than 36,000 cases in 2009, to 414,000 cases of malaria in Venezuela in 2017<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1961, Venezuela was the first country declared free of <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2009, the WHO reported there were less than 36,000 cases of malaria in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2013, Venezuela registered a new high in the number of cases of malaria in the past 50 years, and by 2014, was the only country in Latin America where the incidence of malaria was increasing, allegedly in part due to illegal mining;<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> medical shortages in the country hampered treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2016, Venezuela's malaria-prevention program had collapsed, and there were more than a hundred thousand cases of malaria yearly.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_190-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2017, there were 414,000 confirmed cases of malaria, according to the WHO.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other preventable diseases that "were rare or nonexistent before the economic crisis, have surged",<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> including <a href="/wiki/Diphtheria" title="Diphtheria">diphtheria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Measles" title="Measles">measles</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>. "Venezuela did not experience a single case of diphtheria between 2006 and 2015"; according to the HRW/Johns Hopkins report, since mid-2016, 1,500 of the 2,500 suspected cases have been confirmed.<sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Between 2008 and 2015, there was one recorded case of measles, in 2012; since June 2017, 6,200 of the 9,300 reported cases have been confirmed.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The highest rate of tuberculosis in four decades was reached in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2014, there were 6,000 reported cases of tuberculosis; preliminary data shows more than 13,000 for 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, shortages of <a href="/wiki/Antiviral" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiviral">antiretroviral</a> medicines to treat <a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS" title="HIV/AIDS">HIV/AIDS</a> affected about 50,000 Venezuelans, potentially causing thousands of Venezuelans with HIV to develop AIDS.<sup id="cite_ref-FOXlatino2014_193-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOXlatino2014-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2018, PAHO estimated that 90% of Venezuelans who had HIV and were registered by the government—69,308 of the 79,467 registered<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>—were not receiving antiretroviral treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The PAHO report estimated that in six years, new HIV cases grew by 24% through 2016, after which the government stopped providing data.<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> NPR reported: "New HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have increased sharply, in large part because the vast majority of HIV-positive Venezuelans no longer have access to antiretroviral medications."<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Because of a shortage of HIV test kits, there may be more people who have HIV but are not aware.<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The HRW/Johns Hopkins report says: "Venezuela is the only country in the world where large numbers of individuals living with HIV have been forced to discontinue their treatment as a result of the lack of availability of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines."<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 2014, Venezuelans began saying that due to shortages of medicines, it was hard to find <a href="/wiki/Acetaminophen" class="mw-redirect" title="Acetaminophen">acetaminophen</a> to help alleviate symptoms of the newly introduced <a href="/wiki/Chikungunya" title="Chikungunya">chikungunya</a> virus, a potentially lethal mosquito-borne disease.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJdisease2014_194-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJdisease2014-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In September 2014, the Venezuelan government stated that 400 Venezuelans were infected with chikungunya;<sup id="cite_ref-ELPAIS2014_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELPAIS2014-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Central_University_of_Venezuela" title="Central University of Venezuela">Central University of Venezuela</a> stated that there could be between 65,000 and 117,000 Venezuelans infected.<sup id="cite_ref-ScienceCHIK_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScienceCHIK-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2015 independent health monitors said that there were more than two million people infected with chikungunya while the government said there were 36,000 cases.<sup id="cite_ref-TheTimes_173-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheTimes-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="COVID-19_pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: COVID-19 pandemic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela">COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela</a></div> <p>As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reached Venezuela in March 2020, costs for services such as internet and telephone lines rose between 80% and 749%,<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> further limiting access to these utilities. Shortages of beds and essential medical equipment, such as latex gloves and antibiotics, have severely limited the capabilities of the country's medical infrastructure.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cfr.org_199-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cfr.org-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2020 the Venezuelan government asked the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a> to sell $US1.02 billion of the Venezuelan gold reserves held by the bank to help the government fund its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was followed on 14 May by a legal claim by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Venezuela" title="Central Bank of Venezuela">Venezuelan Central Bank</a> (BCV) asking the Bank of England to send the proceeds of the sale of gold to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Programme" title="United Nations Development Programme">United Nations Development Programme</a>. The claim stated that the funds would then be used to buy healthcare equipment, medicine, and food to address the country's "COVID-19 emergency".<sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Foreign,_Commonwealth_and_Development_Office" title="Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office">UK Foreign Office</a> had previously agreed to a request from the <a href="/wiki/First_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidency of Donald Trump">Trump administration</a> to block the release of Venezuela's gold.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian051020_201-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian051020-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In July 2020, the <a href="/wiki/UK_High_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="UK High Court">UK High Court</a> ruled that the gold could not be released to the BCV because the UK government recognised Juan Guaidó as the "constitutional interim president of Venezuela". However, in October 2020, an appeals court overturned the High Court decision and asked the UK Foreign Office to clarify who it recognised as president of Venezuela. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> wrote that the position of the UK government was unclear as it "maintains full consular and diplomatic relations with the Venezuela government".<sup id="cite_ref-guardian051020_201-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian051020-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (April 2021)">needs update</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Women,_maternal_and_infant"><span id="Women.2C_maternal_and_infant"></span>Women, maternal and infant</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Women, maternal and infant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2016, <a href="/wiki/Infant_mortality" title="Infant mortality">infant mortality</a> increased 30% in one year, to 11,466 deaths of children under the age of one.<sup id="cite_ref-Infant2016_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Infant2016-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2019, the UN reported that infant mortality had "soared".<sup id="cite_ref-MortalitySoared_172-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MortalitySoared-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "Venezuela is the only South American country where infant mortality has returned to levels last seen in the 1990s", according to the HRW/Johns Hopkins report.<sup id="cite_ref-HRWFullScale_155-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRWFullScale-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Maternal_mortality" class="mw-redirect" title="Maternal mortality">Maternal mortality</a> also increased 65% in one year, to 756 deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-NPRHRW_180-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRHRW-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Infant2016_202-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Infant2016-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">Abortion</a> is illegal in Venezuela;<sup id="cite_ref-ABCesAborto_203-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCesAborto-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the director of a large family planning clinic in Venezuela indicated that more women are arranging for permanent sterilization, and that more are presenting with "complications from clandestine abortions".<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One of the causes, according to the Venezuelan Association for Alternative Sexual Education, is the severe shortage of oral and injectable contraceptives and <a href="/wiki/Intrauterine_device" title="Intrauterine device">intrauterine devices</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ABCesAborto_203-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCesAborto-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The HRW/Johns Hopkins report states that the more than 454,000 Venezuelan women who have emigrated to Colombia face 'threats of sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking, and sexual and reproductive rights violations"; violence based on gender accounted for more than 12% of 2018 health-care events, and indigenous women may be at higher risk.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuelan women emigrating are at risk for becoming sex trafficking targets virtually anywhere they flee to. Cases of trafficking in Peru, the United States, Spain, and Colombia display the highest numbers.<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Pregnancy_and_motherhood">Pregnancy and motherhood</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Pregnancy and motherhood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Due to lack of medical supplies, food and medical care in Venezuelan hospitals, many pregnant women in Venezuela are crossing the border into neighboring countries to give birth.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Lack of basic medicine and equipment is causing preventable deaths and maternity is a very high risk for women, especially since there are no blood banks in the event of excessive bleeding.<sup id="cite_ref-Collapses_206-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collapses-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Hospitals frequently have water and electricity outages and only 7% of emergency services are fully operative.<sup id="cite_ref-Crumbles_207-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crumbles-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maternal mortality is estimated to have increased by 65% from 2013 to 2016, and unsafe abortions have contributed to 20% of preventable maternal deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-Collapses_206-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collapses-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Amnesty International, causes of the increase in maternal deaths include a lack of medical personnel and supplies like anticoagulants, scar healing cream, painkillers, antibiotics, antiseptics, and other tools and equipment.<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Statelessness">Statelessness</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Statelessness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cúcuta, a city on the Colombian-Venezuela border, has received 14,000 Venezuelan patients at the Erasmo Meoz University Hospital since 2016 and is expecting to receive even more.<sup id="cite_ref-Crumbles_207-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crumbles-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In this hospital, 75% of the newborns born in the first two months of the year 2019 were Venezuelans.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_209-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The situation has strained the budget of these hospitals, putting Erasmo Meoz 14 million dollars into debt.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_209-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While Colombia is the most impacted since it shares a border, women are also traveling to Brazil to give birth.<sup id="cite_ref-reuters.com_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters.com-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The number of births of Venezuelan babies attended to in <a href="/wiki/Boa_Vista,_Roraima" title="Boa Vista, Roraima">Boa Vista, Brazil</a>, has increased from 700 in 2014 to 50,000 in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-reuters.com_210-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters.com-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuelan mothers have also been fleeing to neighboring Peru and Ecuador.<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-212" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For Colombian citizenship it is required that Colombian citizens be born to at least one Colombian parent or be born to foreign parents who meet residence requirements and are eligible to become citizens.<sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Due to the influx of Venezuelan babies being born in Colombia and the Venezuelan government's inability to issue citizenship, Colombia has introduced a new measure that will give these Colombian-born newborns Colombian citizenship to avoid 'statelessness'.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_209-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The measure went into effect August 2019 and includes babies of Venezuelan parents born in Colombia starting in January 2015, having given citizenship to approximately 27,000 babies born in Colombia over the past four years.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_209-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mental_health">Mental health</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Mental health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the Bolivarian Revolution, the rate of suicide among Venezuelans quadrupled over two decades, with hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans dying from suicide during the period according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_214-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result of the crisis, stressors resulting in suicide included economic burden, hunger and loneliness due to the emigration of relatives.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_214-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, concerns about shortages and inflation overtook violent crime as Venezuelans' main worry for the first time in years according to pollster Datanálisis. The chief executive of Datanálisis, Luis Vicente Leon, said that Venezuelans had greater concerns over shortages and became preoccupied with the difficulties surrounding them instead. <a href="/wiki/Eldar_Shafir" title="Eldar Shafir">Eldar Shafir</a>, author and American behavioral scientist, said that the psychological "obsession" with finding scarce goods in Venezuela is because the rarity of the item makes it "precious".<sup id="cite_ref-BBCprecious_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCprecious-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, reporters from <i>The New York Times</i> visited six psychiatric wards across the Venezuela at the invitation of doctors; all reported shortages of medicine and even food. In the investigation, they reported that El Pampero Hospital had not employed a psychiatrist in two years, and that it only had running water for only a few hours a day. The hospital, the article said, also suffered from shortages of basic personal-care and cleaning supplies, such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste or toilet paper. The nurses declared that without sedatives, they had to restrain patients or lock them in isolation cells to keep them from harming themselves. The reporters also noted that the government had denied that its public hospitals were suffering from shortages, and had refused multiple offers of international medical aid.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the threat of violent protests, the economic crisis affected children more than violence. Abel Saraiba, a psychologist with children's rights organization Cecodap said in 2017, "We have children from a very early age who are having to think about how to survive", with half of her young clients requiring treatment because of the crisis. Children are often forced to stand in food lines or beg with their parents, while the games they play with other children revolve around finding food.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Friends of the Child Foundation psychologist Ninoska Zambrano said that children are offering sexual services for food. Zambrano said "Families are doing things that not only lead them to break physically, but in general, socially, we are being morally broken".<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, suicide increased by 67% among the elderly and 18% among minors; by 2018, reports emerged of a rapidly increasing suicide rate due to the stressors surrounding the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Medical_care_and_elections">Medical care and elections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Medical care and elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Mission_Barrio_Adentro" title="Mission Barrio Adentro">Mission Barrio Adentro</a> was a program established by Chávez to bring medical care to poor neighborhoods; it was staffed by Cubans that were sent to Venezuela in exchange for petroleum. <i>The New York Times</i> interviewed sixteen Cuban medical professionals in 2019 who had worked for <i>Barrio Adentro</i> prior to the 2018 Venezuelan presidential elections; all sixteen revealed that they were required to participate in voting fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-Unspeakable_220-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unspeakable-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some of the Cubans said that "command centers" for elections were placed near clinics to facilitate "dispatching doctors to pressure residents".<sup id="cite_ref-Unspeakable_220-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unspeakable-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some tactics reported by the Cubans were unrelated to their profession: they were given counterfeit cards to vote even though they were not eligible voters, they witnessed vote tampering when officials opening ballot boxes and destroyed ballots, and they were told to instruct easily manipulated elderly patients in how to vote.<sup id="cite_ref-Unspeakable_220-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unspeakable-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>But they also "described a system of deliberate political manipulation"; their services as medical professionals "were wielded to secure votes for the governing Socialist Party, often through coercion", they told <i>The New York Times</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Unspeakable_220-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unspeakable-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Facing a shortage of supplies and medicine, they were instructed to withhold treatment–even for emergencies–so supplies and treatment could be "doled out closer to the election, part of a national strategy to compel patients to vote for the government".<sup id="cite_ref-Unspeakable_220-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unspeakable-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They reported that life-saving treatment was denied to patients who supported the opposition. As the election neared, they were sent door-to-door, on house visits with a political purpose: "to hand out medicine and enlist voters for Venezuela's Socialist Party".<sup id="cite_ref-Unspeakable_220-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unspeakable-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Patients were warned that they could lose their medical care if they did not vote for the socialist party, and that, if Maduro lost, ties would be broken with Cuba, and Venezuelans would lose all medical care. Patients with chronic conditions, at risk of death if they couldn't get medicine, were a particular focus of these tactics. One said that government officials were posing as doctors to make these house calls before elections; 'We, the doctors, were asked to give our extra robes to people. The fake doctors were even giving out medicines, without knowing what they were or how to use them," he said.<sup id="cite_ref-Unspeakable_220-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unspeakable-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Housing">Housing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Housing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:El_Para%C3%ADso_tunnel_main_gate_of_Caracas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/El_Para%C3%ADso_tunnel_main_gate_of_Caracas.jpg/300px-El_Para%C3%ADso_tunnel_main_gate_of_Caracas.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/El_Para%C3%ADso_tunnel_main_gate_of_Caracas.jpg/450px-El_Para%C3%ADso_tunnel_main_gate_of_Caracas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/El_Para%C3%ADso_tunnel_main_gate_of_Caracas.jpg/600px-El_Para%C3%ADso_tunnel_main_gate_of_Caracas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4156" data-file-height="2716" /></a><figcaption>Slums in Caracas seen above El Paraíso tunnel</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the mid-2000s during Chávez's presidency, Venezuela has had a housing crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_221-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2005, the Venezuelan Construction Chamber (CVC) estimated that there was a shortage of 1.6 million homes, with only 10,000 of 120,000 promised homes constructed by Chávez's government despite billions of dollars in investments.<sup id="cite_ref-WP2005_222-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP2005-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Poor Venezuelans attempted to construct homes on their own despite structural risks.<sup id="cite_ref-WP2005_222-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP2005-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2011, there was a housing shortage of 2 million homes, with nearly twenty prime developments being occupied by squatters following Chávez's call for the poor to occupy "unused land".<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_221-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-REUTjune2011_223-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-REUTjune2011-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Up to 2011, only 500,000 homes were constructed during the Chávez administration, with over two-thirds of the new housing developments being built by private companies; his government provided about the same amount of housing as previous administrations.<sup id="cite_ref-REUTjune2011_223-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-REUTjune2011-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Housing shortages were further exacerbated when private construction halted due to the fear of property expropriations and because of the government's inability to construct and provide housing.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_221-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Urban theorist and author Mike Davis said in July 2011 to <i>The Guardian</i>, "Despite official rhetoric, the Bolivarianist regime has undertaken no serious redistribution of wealth in the cities and oil revenues pay for too many other programmes and subsidies to leave room for new housing construction."<sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2012, a shortage of building materials also disrupted construction, with metal production at a 16-year low.<sup id="cite_ref-LATIN2014_225-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATIN2014-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the end of Chávez's presidency in 2013, the number of Venezuelans in inadequate housing had grown to 3 million.<sup id="cite_ref-LATIN2014_225-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATIN2014-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the Maduro government, housing shortages continued to worsen. Maduro announced in 2014 that due to the shortage of steel, abandoned cars and other vehicles would be acquired by the government and melted to provide rebar for housing.<sup id="cite_ref-LATIN2014_225-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATIN2014-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In April 2014, Maduro ruled by decree that Venezuelans who owned three or more rental properties would be forced by the government to sell their rental units at a set price or they would face fines or have their property possessed by the government.<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2016, residents of government-provided housing, who were usually supporters of the government, began protesting due to the lack of utilities and food.<sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social">Social</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Social"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corruption">Corruption</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Corruption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">Corruption in Venezuela</a></div> <p>Corruption is high in Venezuela according to the <a href="/wiki/Transparency_International" title="Transparency International">Transparency International</a> <a href="/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index" title="Corruption Perceptions Index">Corruption Perceptions Index</a> and is prevalent at many levels of society.<sup id="cite_ref-B&amp;C2011_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-B&amp;C2011-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While corruption is difficult to measure reliably, in 2018 Transparency International ranked Venezuela among the top 13 most corrupt countries out of 180 measured, tied with <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Iraq" title="Corruption in Iraq">Iraq</a>, but ahead of <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Afghanistan" title="Corruption in Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burundi" title="Burundi">Burundi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Equatorial_Guinea" title="Corruption in Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Guinea" title="Corruption in Guinea">Guinea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_North_Korea" title="Corruption in North Korea">North Korea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Somalia" title="Corruption in Somalia">Somalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_South_Sudan" title="Corruption in South Sudan">South Sudan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Sudan" title="Corruption in Sudan">Sudan</a>, Syria and <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Yemen" title="Corruption in Yemen">Yemen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-228" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A 2016 poll found that 73% of Venezuelans believed their police were corrupt.<sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Latinobar%C3%B3metro" title="Latinobarómetro">Latinobarómetro</a>'s 2018 report said that 65% of Venezuelans believed their president was involved in corruption, and 64% believed that government officials were corrupt.<sup id="cite_ref-230" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-231" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Discontent with corruption was cited by opposition-aligned groups as one of the reasons for the <a href="/wiki/2014_Venezuelan_protests" title="2014 Venezuelan protests">2014 Venezuelan protests</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A once wealthy country, Venezuela's economy was driven into political and <a href="/wiki/Economic_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic crisis">economic crisis</a> by corruption and mismanagement.<sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crime">Crime</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Crime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela" title="Crime in Venezuela">Crime in Venezuela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Colectivo_(Venezuela)" title="Colectivo (Venezuela)">Colectivo (Venezuela)</a></div><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png/300px-1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png/450px-1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png/600px-1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1529" /></a><figcaption>Murder rate (murder per 100,000 citizens) from 1998 to 2018. <br />Sources: OVV,<sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> PROVEA,<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2011_236-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2011-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2014_237-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2014-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> UN;<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2011_236-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2011-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2014_237-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2014-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AFP2012_238-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AFP2012-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> UN data is extrapolated between 2007 and 2012 because of missing data</figcaption></figure> <p>Escalating violent crime, especially murder, had been called "perhaps the biggest concern" of Venezuelans during the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela had "by various measures, the world's highest violent-crime rate" in 2017, and almost none of crimes that were reported were prosecuted.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_190-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> InSight Crime says the crisis has "all too often been obscured by the government's reluctance to release damning crime statistics".<sup id="cite_ref-KidnapDouble_240-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KidnapDouble-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The New Yorker</i> reporter found that even stairwells in a public hospital were not safe from robbers, who preyed on staff and patients despite the large number of security forces guarding the hospital, saying this was because the police were assigned to contain journalists who might embarrass the government with exposés on the state of the hospital; they were not assigned to protect its occupants. The police allegedly collaborated with the robbers receiving a cut of what they stole.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_190-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to The U.S. Bureau of Diplomatic Security, street gang violence, "corrupt" underpaid police officers, "an inefficient and politicized judicial system", an extremely troubled prison system, and an increased widespread of weaponry has resulted in the majority of criminal activity in Venezuela, with murder being the crime committed the most.<sup id="cite_ref-OSAC2018_241-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OSAC2018-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Bureau states that there were 73 daily violent deaths in 2018, and that the government "often attempts to refute or repudiate reports of increasing crime and murder rates; however, independent observers widely reject" the Venezuelan government's claims.<sup id="cite_ref-OSAC2018_241-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OSAC2018-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The government says there were 60 daily homicides in 2016, and 45 daily in 2015,<sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> corresponding with Venezuela's downward economic spiral; the OVV says the numbers are higher.<sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>For 2015, the government says the rate of homicides was 70.1 per 100,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) says the rate was 91.8 homicides per 100,000 people (in 2015, the comparative U.S. number was 4.9 per 100,000 inhabitants).<sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a>, the 2016 homicide rate was 56 per 100,000, making Venezuela third in the world, after El Salvador and Honduras.<sup id="cite_ref-MurderDips_243-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MurderDips-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> OVV data has 23,047 homicides committed in Venezuela in 2018, a rate of 81.4 per 100,000 people, with the decline being attributed to emigration.<sup id="cite_ref-MurderDips_243-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MurderDips-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p> According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>,</p><blockquote><p>... carjack gangs set up ambushes, sometimes laying down nail-embedded strips to puncture tires of vehicles ferrying potential quarry. Motorists speak matter-of-factly of spotting body parts along roadways. ... While most crime victims are poor, they also include members of the middle and upper classes and scores of police and military personnel killed each year, sometimes for their weapons. ... "Before the thieves would only rob you," is a common refrain here in the capital. "Now they kill you."<sup id="cite_ref-244" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Venezuela led the world in <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate" title="List of countries by intentional homicide rate">murder rates</a>, with 81 per 100,000 people killed in 2018; the third most violent country.<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC3_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC3-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a response to the high rate of crime, the Venezuelan government banned private ownership of firearms by some individuals in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-245" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-246" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/El_Pa%C3%ADs" title="El País">El País</a></i> reported in 2014 that Chávez had years earlier assigned <i>colectivos</i> to be "the armed wing of the Bolivarian Revolution" for the Venezuelan government, giving them weapons, communication systems, motorcycles and surveillance equipment to exercise control in the hills of Caracas where police are forbidden entry.<sup id="cite_ref-ELPAIScolectivo_248-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELPAIScolectivo-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2006, they received arms and funding from the state when they were brought under the government's community councils.<sup id="cite_ref-Devolution_151-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Devolution-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Chávez eliminated the Metropolitan Police in 2011, turning security over to the colectivos in some Caracas barrios.<sup id="cite_ref-Devolution_151-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Devolution-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some weapons given to the groups include <a href="/wiki/Assault_rifle" title="Assault rifle">assault rifles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Submachine_gun" title="Submachine gun">submachine guns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grenades" class="mw-redirect" title="Grenades">grenades</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ELPAIScolectivo_248-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELPAIScolectivo-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Despite the Venezuelan government's statements saying that only official authorities can carry weapons for the defense of Venezuela, <i>colectivos</i> are armed with automatic rifles such as <a href="/wiki/AK-47" title="AK-47">AK-47s</a>, submachine guns, fragmentation grenades, and tear gas.<sup id="cite_ref-ISCnov2014_249-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISCnov2014-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ABCmarch2013_250-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCmarch2013-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_(Presidents).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png/300px-Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png/450px-Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png/600px-Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png 2x" data-file-width="2250" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Number of kidnappings in Venezuela 1989–2011.<br />Source: <a href="/wiki/Cuerpo_de_Investigaciones_Cient%C3%ADficas,_Penales_y_Criminal%C3%ADsticas" title="Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas">CICPC</a><sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CICPC2009_252-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CICPC2009-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br /> Note: <a href="/wiki/Express_kidnapping" title="Express kidnapping">Express kidnappings</a> may not be included in data.</figcaption></figure> <p>During the 2014 Venezuelan protests against Maduro, <i>colectivos</i> acted against the opposition protesters.<sup id="cite_ref-lapatilla.com_254-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lapatilla.com-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As the crisis intensified, armed gangs have taken control of cities.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Civil Association for Citizen Control said that more than half of those killed during the protests were killed by <i>colectivos</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Human Rights Watch described colectivos as "armed gangs who use violence with impunity" to harass political opponents of the Venezuelan government.<sup id="cite_ref-ReutersCOLECTIVO_256-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReutersCOLECTIVO-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> calls them "armed pro-government supporters who are tolerated or supported by the authorities".<sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the 2019 Venezuelan blackouts in March, Maduro called on the armed paramilitary gangs, saying, "The time has come for active resistance".<sup id="cite_ref-Demonic_259-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Demonic-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As blackouts continued, on 31 March, citizens protested the lack of electricity and water in Caracas and other cities; Maduro called again on the colectivos, asking them "to defend the peace of every barrio, of every block".<sup id="cite_ref-ArmedGroups_260-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArmedGroups-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Videos circulated on social media showing colectivos threatening protesters and shooting in the streets;<sup id="cite_ref-WPSunday_261-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WPSunday-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> two protestors were shot.<sup id="cite_ref-ArmedGroups_260-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArmedGroups-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is no reliable data on kidnapping in Venezuela and available data is considered an underestimate;<sup id="cite_ref-KidnapDouble_240-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KidnapDouble-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> it is against the law to pay ransom, and according to criminologists, at least 80% of kidnappings are not reported for fear of retaliation,<sup id="cite_ref-OSAC2018_241-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OSAC2018-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or because relatives prefer to negotiate, hoping the hostage will be released and fearing they will be killed if authorities are contacted.<sup id="cite_ref-KidnapDouble_240-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KidnapDouble-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Available data underestimates the amount of <a href="/wiki/Express_kidnap" class="mw-redirect" title="Express kidnap">express kidnapping</a>, where victims are typically released in less than two days after relatives pay a quick ransom.<sup id="cite_ref-KidnapDouble_240-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KidnapDouble-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most express kidnapping victims are released, but in 2016, 18 were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-KidnapDouble_240-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KidnapDouble-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At least 80% of kidnappings occur in a limited area around Caracas and including <a href="/wiki/Miranda_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Miranda State">Miranda State</a>. In the areas where most kidnappings occur, the government set up so-called "peace zones" where official police withdrew and gangs took over;<sup id="cite_ref-KidnapDouble_240-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KidnapDouble-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "experts say the government has armed these groups ... [who] ... control large territories, financed through extortion and the drug trade".<sup id="cite_ref-HerreraNephew_242-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerreraNephew-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Illegal mining creates pools of standing water that encourage mosquito breeding, a partial cause of the increase in malaria seen in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The murder rate in Venezuela had also decreased significantly between 2017 and 2019. In 2018, Venezuela's murder rate–described as the highest in the world–had begun to decrease to 81.4 per 100,000 people according to the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), with the organization stating that this downward trend was due to the millions of Venezuelans that emigrated from the country at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The murder rate declined even further to 60.3 in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Human_rights">Human rights</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Human rights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela#Civil_and_political_rights" title="Human rights in Venezuela">Human rights in Venezuela §&#160;Civil and political rights</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela%27s_arbitrary_detentions_per_Foro_Penal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Venezuela%27s_arbitrary_detentions_per_Foro_Penal.png/300px-Venezuela%27s_arbitrary_detentions_per_Foro_Penal.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Venezuela%27s_arbitrary_detentions_per_Foro_Penal.png/450px-Venezuela%27s_arbitrary_detentions_per_Foro_Penal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Venezuela%27s_arbitrary_detentions_per_Foro_Penal.png/600px-Venezuela%27s_arbitrary_detentions_per_Foro_Penal.png 2x" data-file-width="799" data-file-height="537" /></a><figcaption>Arbitrary detentions in Venezuela between 2014 and 2019 according to Foro Penal. Arrests by year in blue and total arrests in red.</figcaption></figure> <p>Repression and politically motivated detentions have risen to record levels in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-PoliticalDetentions_264-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PoliticalDetentions-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Foro_Penal" title="Foro Penal">Foro Penal</a> states that Venezuela has at least 900 political prisoners as of April 2019, with more arrests of people being held longer in poor conditions and on dubious charges. The human rights organization has documented more than 50 instances that include "sexual abuse, strangulation using plastic bags and the use of razor blades to cut detainees' feet".<sup id="cite_ref-PoliticalDetentions_264-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PoliticalDetentions-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the first three months of 2019, Foro Penal says 1,712 people were arrested and about two-thirds of those were held for more than 48 hours, the threshold used to classify a detainee as a political prisoner.<sup id="cite_ref-PoliticalDetentions_264-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PoliticalDetentions-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro calls those arrested members of "terrorist groups" and says his government will not hesitate to send them to prison. <a href="/wiki/Juan_Requesens" title="Juan Requesens">Juan Requesens</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Marrero" title="Roberto Marrero">Roberto Marrero</a> are examples of "purely political" arrests, according to their attorney.<sup id="cite_ref-PoliticalDetentions_264-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PoliticalDetentions-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Increasingly high numbers of the detainees are working-class people, who have been driven to protest by the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-PoliticalDetentions_264-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PoliticalDetentions-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The final published report addressed the extrajudicial executions, torture, <a href="/wiki/Forced_disappearance" class="mw-redirect" title="Forced disappearance">forced disappearances</a> and other human rights violations reportedly committed by Venezuelan security forces in the recent years.<sup id="cite_ref-reutersIndependenceday_265-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reutersIndependenceday-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Bachelet expressed her concerns for the "shockingly high" number of extrajudicial killings and urged for the dissolution of the FAES.<sup id="cite_ref-Fr24Michellereport_266-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fr24Michellereport-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the report, 1,569 cases of executions as consequence as a result of "resistance to authority" were registered by the Venezuelan authorities from 1 January to 19 March.<sup id="cite_ref-Fr24Michellereport_266-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fr24Michellereport-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other 52 deaths that occurred during 2019 protests were attributed to colectivos.<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The report also details how the Venezuelan government "aimed at neutralising, repressing and criminalising political opponents and people critical of the government" since 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-Fr24Michellereport_266-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fr24Michellereport-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 September 2020, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Venezuela accused the Maduro government of <a href="/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 February 2024, the Maduro government closed the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Human_Rights" title="Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights">UN High Commissioner for Human Rights</a> office in Caracas after High Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Volker_T%C3%BCrk" title="Volker Türk">Volker Türk</a> condemned the detention of activist <a href="/wiki/Roc%C3%ADo_San_Miguel" title="Rocío San Miguel">Rocío San Miguel</a>, demanding "her immediate release and respect for her right to legal defense". Maduro's government expelled its officials, giving them 72 hours to leave the country.<sup id="cite_ref-269" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Emigration">Emigration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Emigration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="Venezuelan refugee crisis">Venezuelan refugee crisis</a></div> <p>The exodus of millions of desperate impoverished Venezuelans to surrounding countries has been called "a risk for the entire region".<sup id="cite_ref-Larmer-1-11-18_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larmer-1-11-18-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Millions of <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan people">Venezuelan people</a> have voluntarily emigrated from Venezuela during the Chávez and Maduro presidencies.<sup id="cite_ref-EUdiaspora_270-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUdiaspora-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NEWSWEEKdiaspora_271-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NEWSWEEKdiaspora-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The crisis started during the Chávez presidency, but became much more pronounced during Maduro's term.<sup id="cite_ref-MigrationCrisis_272-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigrationCrisis-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Emigration has been motivated by economic collapse, expansion of <a href="/wiki/Statist_socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Statist socialist">state control over the economy</a>, high crime, high inflation, general uncertainty, a lack of hope for a change in government,<sup id="cite_ref-EUdiaspora_270-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUdiaspora-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ2011_273-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ2011-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> a failing public sector, and "shortages of basic necessities".<sup id="cite_ref-MigrationCrisis_272-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigrationCrisis-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The PGA Group estimates more than 1.5 million Venezuelans emigrated in the 15 years between 1999 and 2014;<sup id="cite_ref-EUdiaspora_270-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUdiaspora-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> an estimated 1.8 million left in ten years through 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-274" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-275" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The UN said that in the first part of 2018, about 5,000 Venezuelans were leaving Venezuela daily.<sup id="cite_ref-UNHCR-MIO2019_276-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNHCR-MIO2019-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A February 2019 UN reported estimated that 3.4 million Venezuelans have emigrated, and they expect another 1.9 million may emigrate in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters29Mar_148-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters29Mar-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNHCR-MIO2019_276-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNHCR-MIO2019-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The UN estimates 2.7 million have gone to the Caribbean and Latin America.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR4April_277-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR4April-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNHCR-MIO2019_276-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNHCR-MIO2019-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most have gone to Colombia; estimates of Venezuelans emigrating to Colombia are 1.1 million, Peru 506,000, Chile 288,000, Ecuador 221,000, Argentina 130,000, and Brazil 96,000.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR4April_277-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR4April-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This is in contrast to Venezuela's high immigration rate during the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-NEWSWEEKdiaspora_271-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NEWSWEEKdiaspora-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kevin Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador in Colombia, says, "Colombians, in their tens and hundreds of thousands, migrated to Venezuela in the '60s and '70s and '80s, when Venezuela was a wealthy country and Colombia was not so much. Now, more than 1 million Venezuelans, many of them since 2015, have gone to live in Colombia."<sup id="cite_ref-NPR4April_277-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR4April-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Those who leave by foot are known as <i>los caminantes</i> (the walkers); the walk to Bogotá, Colombia is 560 kilometres (350&#160;mi), and some walk hundreds of kilometres further, to Ecuador or Peru.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR4April_277-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR4April-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Alba Pereira, who helps feed and clothe about 800 walkers daily in Northern Colombia, said in 2019 she is seeing more sick, elderly and pregnant among the walkers.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR4April_277-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR4April-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Colombian <a href="/wiki/Red_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Cross">Red Cross</a> has set up rest tents with food and water on the side of the roads for Venezuelans.<sup id="cite_ref-Walkers_278-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walkers-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuelans also cross into northern Brazil, where UNHCR has set up 10 shelters to house thousands of Venezuelans.<sup id="cite_ref-Walkers_278-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walkers-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Images of Venezuelans fleeing the country by sea have raised symbolic comparisons to the images seen from the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_diaspora" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuban diaspora">Cuban diaspora</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYThungryDIA_279-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYThungryDIA-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1998, only 14 Venezuelans were granted U.S. asylum, and by September 1999, 1,086 Venezuelans were granted asylum according to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Citizenship_and_Immigration_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters2007_280-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters2007-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The first wave of Venezuelan emigrants were wealthy and middle class Venezuelans concerned by Chávez's rhetoric of redistributing wealth to the poor;<sup id="cite_ref-NYThungryDIA_279-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYThungryDIA-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the early exodus of college-educated people with capital caused a <a href="/wiki/Human_capital_flight" title="Human capital flight">brain drain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MigrationCrisis_272-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigrationCrisis-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Emigration especially increased during the Maduro presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-REUT15oct_281-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-REUT15oct-281"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This second wave of emigration consisted of lower class Venezuelans suffering directly from the economic crisis facing the country; thus, the same individuals whom Chávez attempted to aid were now seeking to emigrate, driven by worsening economic conditions, scarcity of food and medicine, and rising rates of violent crime.<sup id="cite_ref-NYThungryDIA_279-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYThungryDIA-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Tomás Pérez, who studies the Venezuelan diaspora at the Central University of Venezuela, said in 2018 that because "now everyone is poor", it is mostly poor leaving the country.<sup id="cite_ref-MigrationCrisis_272-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigrationCrisis-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Carlos Malamud, from a Spanish think tank, said Maduro is "using migration as a political weapon against the opposition".<sup id="cite_ref-MigrationCrisis_272-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigrationCrisis-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The scale of the crisis has surpassed in four years the Cuban exodus, in which 1.7&#160;million emigrated over a period of sixty years; Malamud says "Latin American societies aren't prepared for such wide-scale arrivals".<sup id="cite_ref-MigrationCrisis_272-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigrationCrisis-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Impacting the health care crisis in Venezuela, health care professionals are emigrating; a primary factor driving emigration to Colombia is the lack of "medicines, supplies, health providers, and basic health services" in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Since 2017, the banking sector has seen 18,000 employees leave the country.<sup id="cite_ref-282" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economic">Economic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Economic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2013%E2%80%93present_economic_crisis_in_Venezuela" title="2013–present economic crisis in Venezuela">2013–present economic crisis in Venezuela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_administration" title="Economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro administration">Economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro administration</a></div> <p>Maduro's government stopped releasing social and economic indicators, so most data rely on estimates.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_International_Finance" title="Institute of International Finance">Institute of International Finance</a> (IIF) stated in March 2019 that "Venezuela's economic collapse is among the world's worst in recent history".<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A chief economist of the IIF said the crisis resulted from "policy decisions, economic mismanagement, and political turmoil", saying it is on a scale that "one would only expect from extreme natural disasters or military confrontations".<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The April 2019 <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a> (IMF) World Economic Outlook described Venezuela as being in a "wartime economy".<sup id="cite_ref-WartimeEconomy3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WartimeEconomy3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For the fifth consecutive year, Bloomberg rated Venezuela last on its <a href="/wiki/Misery_index_(economics)" title="Misery index (economics)">misery index</a> in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-283" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-283"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The government's main source of income is oil, with output "plummeting due to lack of investment, poor maintenance and neglect",<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> from which consultant Eduardo Fortuny expects will take 12 years to recover.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2020 the Venezuelan government has liberalized many socialist or redistributive economic policies—price and currency controls, stringent labor laws—and brought a rapprochement with members of the local business community—especially <a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_Mendoza" title="Lorenzo Mendoza">Lorenzo Mendoza</a> of the iconic <a href="/wiki/Empresas_Polar" title="Empresas Polar">Empresas Polar</a> conglomerate (who is no longer denounced as a "thief," a "parasite" and a "traitor"), in exchange for an abandonment of political opposition by Mendoza.<sup id="cite_ref-Kurmanaev-2020_284-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kurmanaev-2020-284"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, a "slight recovery" in economic activity in January 2020 reportedly "evaporated in February and March" due to "the fall in global oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic".<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters-25-Nov-2020_285-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters-25-Nov-2020-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business_and_industry">Business and industry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Business and industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Perrera" title="Perrera">Perrera</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Freedom_ratings_in_Venezuela_(1998_to_2017).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Freedom_ratings_in_Venezuela_%281998_to_2017%29.png/330px-Freedom_ratings_in_Venezuela_%281998_to_2017%29.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Freedom_ratings_in_Venezuela_%281998_to_2017%29.png/495px-Freedom_ratings_in_Venezuela_%281998_to_2017%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Freedom_ratings_in_Venezuela_%281998_to_2017%29.png/660px-Freedom_ratings_in_Venezuela_%281998_to_2017%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1955" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Ratings for Venezuela from 1998 to 2017 by the U.S. Government-funded NGO <a href="/wiki/Freedom_House" title="Freedom House">Freedom House</a><sup id="cite_ref-286" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-286"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (1 = free, 7 = not free)</figcaption></figure> <p>A number of foreign firms have left the nation—often due to quarrels with the socialist government—including <a href="/wiki/Smurfit_Kappa" class="mw-redirect" title="Smurfit Kappa">Smurfit Kappa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clorox" title="Clorox">Clorox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kimberly_Clark" class="mw-redirect" title="Kimberly Clark">Kimberly Clark</a> and <a href="/wiki/General_Mills" title="General Mills">General Mills</a>; the departures aggravate unemployment and shortages.<sup id="cite_ref-CompaniesFlee_287-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CompaniesFlee-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Before the effects of the 2019 Venezuelan blackouts, the number of multinational companies in the industrial city of <a href="/wiki/Valencia,_Carabobo" class="mw-redirect" title="Valencia, Carabobo">Valencia in Carabobo State</a> had dropped from 5,000 when Chávez became president to a tenth of that.<sup id="cite_ref-288" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Airline_industry">Airline industry</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Airline industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Domestic airlines are having difficulties because of hyperinflation and parts shortages, and most <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_International_Airport_(Venezuela)#Chronology_of_former_international_flights" title="Simón Bolívar International Airport (Venezuela)">international airlines have left the country</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AirlineSuffer_289-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AirlineSuffer-289"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ArgAir_290-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArgAir-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Airlines from many countries ceased operating in Venezuela, making travel to the country difficult:<sup id="cite_ref-ArgAir_290-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArgAir-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Air_Canada" title="Air Canada">Air Canada</a> became the first international airline to cease Venezuela operations in March 2014 and was followed by <a href="/wiki/Alitalia" title="Alitalia">Alitalia</a> in April 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-291" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other airlines that have left are <a href="/wiki/Aerom%C3%A9xico" title="Aeroméxico">Aeroméxico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Avianca" title="Avianca">Avianca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines" title="Delta Air Lines">Delta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lufthansa" title="Lufthansa">Lufthansa</a>, <a href="/wiki/LATAM_Airlines_Group" title="LATAM Airlines Group">LATAM</a>, and <a href="/wiki/United_Airlines" title="United Airlines">United Airlines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DeltaCuts_292-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeltaCuts-292"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/International_Air_Transport_Association" title="International Air Transport Association">International Air Transport Association</a> (IATA), the government of Venezuela has not paid US$3.8 billion to international airlines in an issue involving conversion of local currency to U.S. dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-DeltaCuts_292-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeltaCuts-292"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Airlines have left for other reasons, including crime against flight crews and foreign passengers, stolen baggage, and problems with the quality of jet fuel and maintenance of runways.<sup id="cite_ref-293" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-294" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-294"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-295" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-295"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>288<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Aerol%C3%ADneas_Argentinas" title="Aerolíneas Argentinas">Aerolíneas Argentinas</a> left in 2017, citing security reasons,<sup id="cite_ref-ArgAir_290-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArgAir-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/American_Airlines" title="American Airlines">American Airlines</a>, the last U.S. airline serving Venezuela, left on 15 March 2019, after its pilots refused to fly to Venezuela, citing safety issues.<sup id="cite_ref-296" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-296"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>289<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Currently, the only North American airline flying to Venezuela is <a href="/wiki/Sunwing_Airlines" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunwing Airlines">Sunwing Airlines</a>, with seasonal service to <a href="/wiki/Margarita_Island" title="Margarita Island">Margarita Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punto_Fijo" title="Punto Fijo">Punto Fijo</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Following the increasing economic partnership between Venezuela and Turkey in October 2016, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Airlines" title="Turkish Airlines">Turkish Airlines</a> started offering direct flights from December 2016 connecting between Caracas to Istanbul (via Havana, Cuba) in an effort to "link and expand contacts" between the two countries.<sup id="cite_ref-297" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Iranian airline <a href="/wiki/Mahan_Air" title="Mahan Air">Mahan Air</a> (blacklisted by the U.S. government since 2011<sup id="cite_ref-MahanBlacklist_298-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MahanBlacklist-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) began direct flights to Caracas in April 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-299" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-299"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>292<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "signifying a growing relationship between the two nations" according to <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MahanBlacklist_298-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MahanBlacklist-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2019, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Transportation" title="United States Department of Transportation">United States Department of Transport</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Department of Homeland Security">Department of Homeland Security</a> suspended all flights between Venezuela and the United States, due to safety and security concerns.<sup id="cite_ref-300" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>293<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The suspension affects mainly Venezuelan airlines flying to <a href="/wiki/Miami_International_Airport" title="Miami International Airport">Miami</a>, which are <a href="/wiki/Avior_Airlines" title="Avior Airlines">Avior Airlines</a>, <a href="/wiki/LASER_Airlines" title="LASER Airlines">LASER Airlines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Estelar_Latinoam%C3%A9rica" class="mw-redirect" title="Estelar Latinoamérica">Estelar Latinoamérica</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gross_domestic_product">Gross domestic product</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Gross domestic product"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Estimated to drop by 25% in 2019, the IMF said the contraction in Venezuela's GDP—the largest since the <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a> began in 2014—was affecting all of Latin America.<sup id="cite_ref-WartimeEconomy3_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WartimeEconomy3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015 the Venezuelan economy contracted 5.7% and in 2016 it contracted 18.6% according to the Venezuelan central bank;<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters2016Inflation_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters2016Inflation-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> after that, the government stopped producing data.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ecoanalítica, a Venezuelan consultant, told <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> that output had halved between 2016 and 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The IMF and AGPV Asesores Económicos, a consulting firm based in Caracas, estimate that GDP shrunk to $80&#160;billion in 2018 from $196&#160;billion in 2013, making the economy smaller than Guatemala's or Ethiopia's.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inflation">Inflation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=28" title="Edit section: Inflation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_hyperinflation.webp" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Venezuela_hyperinflation.webp/350px-Venezuela_hyperinflation.webp.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Venezuela_hyperinflation.webp/525px-Venezuela_hyperinflation.webp.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Venezuela_hyperinflation.webp/700px-Venezuela_hyperinflation.webp.png 2x" data-file-width="1543" data-file-height="510" /></a><figcaption>Venezuela hyperinflation May 2018 - October 2019</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela" title="Hyperinflation in Venezuela">Hyperinflation in Venezuela</a></div> <p>The annual inflation rate for consumer prices has risen hundreds of thousands of percent during the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-Larmer-1-11-18_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larmer-1-11-18-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Inflation in Venezuela remained high during Chávez's presidency. By 2010, inflation removed any advancement of wage increases,<sup id="cite_ref-:02_301-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-301"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>294<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and by 2014 at 69%<sup id="cite_ref-302" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-302"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>295<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> it was the highest in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-303" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-303"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-304" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-304"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>297<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2016, Venezuela entered a period of <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation" title="Hyperinflation">hyperinflation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-305" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-305"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with inflation reaching 4,000% in 2017;<sup id="cite_ref-WeightLoss_157-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WeightLoss-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the Venezuelan government "essentially stopped" producing inflation estimates in early 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-NYRoB-20183_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYRoB-20183-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the end of 2018, inflation had reached 1.35 million percent.<sup id="cite_ref-MaduroStarts_306-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MaduroStarts-306"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>299<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2017 Christmas season, some shops stopped using price tags since prices would inflate so quickly.<sup id="cite_ref-307" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-307"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>300<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From 2017 to 2019, some Venezuelans became video game <a href="/wiki/Gold_farmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold farmer">gold farmers</a> and could be seen playing games such as <i><a href="/wiki/RuneScape" title="RuneScape">RuneScape</a></i> to sell in-game currency or characters for real currency; players could make more money than salaried workers by earning only a few dollars per day.<sup id="cite_ref-308" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-308"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>301<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-309" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-309"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>302<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some of these "gold farmers" will use cryptocurrencies as an intermediary currency before converting into Bolivares, as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bitcoinmxn.com/2018/09/01/una-entrevista-con-un-anonimo-venezolano-utilizando-runescape-y-bitcoin-para-alimentar-a-su-familia/">indicated in this interview</a>. </p><p>In October 2018, the IMF estimated that inflation would reach 10,000,000% by the end of 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-310" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-310"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>303<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 2019, the monthly minimum salary was the equivalent of US$5.50 (18,000 sovereign bolivars)—less than the price of a Happy Meal at McDonald's.<sup id="cite_ref-WartimeEconomy3_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WartimeEconomy3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ecoanalitica estimated that prices jumped by 465% in the first two-and-a-half months of 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> stated in March 2019 that the "main cause of hyperinflation is the central bank printing money to increase money supply, thus boosting domestic spending.", reporting that a teacher can buy a dozen eggs and two pounds of cheese with a month's wages.<sup id="cite_ref-9Charts_147-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9Charts-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2019, the Central Bank of Venezuela released economic data for the first time since 2015. According to the release, Venezuela's inflation rate was 274% in 2016, 863% in 2017 and 130,060% in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-311" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-311"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>304<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The new reports imply a contraction of more than half of the economy in five years, according to the <i>Financial Times</i> "one of the biggest contractions in Latin American history".<sup id="cite_ref-312" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-312"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>305<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Sources quoted by <i>Reuters,</i> said that China may have asked Venezuela to release the data to bring Venezuela into compliance with the IMF and make it more difficult for the IMF to recognise Juan Guaidó during the presidential crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-reutersIMFdeniesBCV_313-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reutersIMFdeniesBCV-313"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>306<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The IMF said it was not able to assess the quality of the data as it had no contact with the Venezuelan government.<sup id="cite_ref-reutersIMFdeniesBCV_313-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reutersIMFdeniesBCV-313"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>306<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shortages">Shortages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=29" title="Edit section: Shortages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">Shortages in Venezuela</a></div> <p>Shortages in Venezuela became prevalent after <a href="/wiki/Price_controls" title="Price controls">price controls</a> were enacted according to the economic policy of the Hugo Chávez government.<sup id="cite_ref-economist.com_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist.com-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-qz.com_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-qz.com-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Under the <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro government">economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro government</a>, greater shortages occurred due to the Venezuelan government's policy of withholding United States dollars from importers with price controls.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJseptDOWNGRADE_314-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJseptDOWNGRADE-314"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>307<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some Venezuelans must search for food—occasionally resorting to eating wild fruit or garbage—wait in lines for hours and sometimes settle without having certain products.<sup id="cite_ref-APGarbage_153-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APGarbage-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unemployment">Unemployment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=30" title="Edit section: Unemployment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25%; ;"> <div class="quotebox-title" style="">"Wartime economy"</div> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>[Venezuela's wartime economy has the] world's highest unemployment since end of <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a> in world's biggest contraction since 2014 start of <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a> </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">April 2019 <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a> (IMF) World Economic Outlook<sup id="cite_ref-WartimeEconomy3_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WartimeEconomy3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></p> </div> <p>In January 2016 the unemployment rate was 18.1 percent<sup id="cite_ref-imf-datamapper_315-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imf-datamapper-315"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>308<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the economy was the worst in the world according to the misery index.<sup id="cite_ref-economia.uol_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economia.uol-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela has not reported official unemployment figures since April 2016, when the rate was at 7.3 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-316" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-316"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>309<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unemployment was forecasted to reach 44% for 2019; the IMF stated that this was the highest unemployment seen since the end of the Bosnian War in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-WartimeEconomy3_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WartimeEconomy3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Venezuelan_debt">Venezuelan debt</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: Venezuelan debt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2017 <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> imposed sanctions on Venezuela<sup id="cite_ref-317" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-317"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>310<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which banned transactions involving Venezuela's state debt including debt restructuring. The technical default period ended 13 November 2017 and Venezuela did not pay coupons on its dollar eurobonds, causing a cross-default on other dollar bonds. A committee consisting of the fifteen largest banks admitted default on state debt obligations which in turn entailed payments on CDS on 30 November.<sup id="cite_ref-318" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-318"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>311<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2017, <i>The Economist</i> estimated Venezuela's debt at US$105 billion and its reserves at US$10 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-319" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-319"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>312<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2018, Venezuela's debt grew to US$156 billion<sup id="cite_ref-320" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-320"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>313<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and as of March 2019, its reserves had dropped to US$8 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-PayConoco_321-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PayConoco-321"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the exception of PDVSA's 2020 bonds,<sup id="cite_ref-322" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-322"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>315<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as of January 2019, all of Venezuela's bonds are in default,<sup id="cite_ref-323" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-323"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>316<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Venezuela's government and state-owned companies owe nearly US$8 billion in unpaid interest and principal.<sup id="cite_ref-324" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-324"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>317<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of March 2019, the government and state-owned companies have US$150 billion in debt.<sup id="cite_ref-PayConoco_321-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PayConoco-321"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oil_industry">Oil industry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=32" title="Edit section: Oil industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By 2018 the political and economic troubles facing Venezuela had engulfed the <a href="/wiki/El_Tigre" title="El Tigre">El Tigre</a>-<a href="/wiki/San_Tom%C3%A9,_Venezuela" title="San Tomé, Venezuela">San Tomé</a> region, a key region for oil production in eastern Venezuela. Oil workers were fleeing the state-owned oil company as salaries could not keep up with hyperinflation, reducing families to starvation. Workers and criminals stripped vital oil industry equipment of anything valuable, ranging from pickup trucks to the copper wire within critical oil production components.<sup id="cite_ref-workers_flee_325-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-workers_flee-325"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>318<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Oil facilities were neglected and unprotected, crippling oil production and leading to <a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Venezuela" title="Environmental issues in Venezuela">environmental damage</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Leaking_326-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leaking-326"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>319<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As noted petroleum historian, expert, and former San Tomé resident <a href="/wiki/Emma_Brossard" title="Emma Brossard">Emma Brossard</a><sup id="cite_ref-Brossard1993_327-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brossard1993-327"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>320<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> stated in 2005, "Venezuelan oil fields had a depletion rate of 25 per cent annually [and] there had to be an investment of US$3.4 billion a year to keep up its production." "But since Chávez has become president there has been no investment."<sup id="cite_ref-Brossard05_328-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brossard05-328"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>321<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2020 there were no longer any oil rigs searching for oil in Venezuela, and production has been "reduced to a trickle". Oil exports are expected to total $2.3 billion for 2020, continuing a decline of more than a decade.<sup id="cite_ref-Urdaneta-nyt_329-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urdaneta-nyt-329"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>322<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Pollution from crude oil leaking from abandoned underwater wells and pipelines has caused serious damage to fishing and human health.<sup id="cite_ref-Urdaneta-nyt_329-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urdaneta-nyt-329"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>322<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, rising oil prices caused by the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> led the World Oil Commission to start meetings with the Venezuelan Government to push oil production to have a control over the price.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> As a consequence of the energy crisis caused by the war, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">United States</a> allowed the American oil and gas company <a href="/wiki/Chevron_Corporation" title="Chevron Corporation">Chevron</a> to resume limited operations in Venezuela again.<sup id="cite_ref-330" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-330"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>323<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_opinion">Public opinion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=33" title="Edit section: Public opinion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A November 2016 Datincorp survey that asked Venezuelans living in urban areas which entity was responsible for the crisis, 59% blamed <a href="/wiki/Chavismo" title="Chavismo">chavismo</a> or the presidents (Chávez, 25%; Maduro 19%; Chavismo 15%) while others blamed the opposition (10%), entrepreneurs (4%) and the United States (2%).<sup id="cite_ref-331" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-331"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>324<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A September 2018 Meganálisis survey found that 85% of Venezuelans wanted Maduro to leave power immediately.<sup id="cite_ref-332" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-332"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>325<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A November 2018 Datanálisis poll found that 54% of Venezuelans opposed a foreign military intervention to remove Maduro, while 35% supported an intervention. Instead, 63% supported a "negotiated settlement to remove Maduro".<sup id="cite_ref-333" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-333"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>326<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>An 11–14 March 2019 survey of 1,100 people in 16 Venezuelan states and 32 cities by Meganálisis found that 89% of respondents wanted Maduro to leave the presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-334" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-334"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>327<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A Datanálisis poll on 4 March 2019 found Maduro's approval rating at an all-time low of 14%.<sup id="cite_ref-335" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-335"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>328<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Datanálisis, in early 2019, 63% of Venezuelans believed that a change of government was possible. Fourteen months later, in May 2020, after the <a href="/wiki/Macuto_Bay_raid" class="mw-redirect" title="Macuto Bay raid">Macuto Bay raid</a>, the percentage decreased to 20%.<sup id="cite_ref-336" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-336"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>329<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to economists interviewed by <i>The New York Times</i>, the situation is by far the worst economic crisis in Venezuela's history, and is also the worst facing a country in peace time since the mid-20th century. The crisis is also more severe than that of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">United States</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1985%E2%80%931994_Brazilian_economic_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="1985–1994 Brazilian economic crisis">1985–1994 Brazilian economic crisis</a>, or the 2008–2009 <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe" title="Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe">hyperinflation in Zimbabwe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other writers have also compared aspects of the crisis, such as unemployment and GDP contraction, to that of <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> after the 1992–1995 <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a>, and those in <a href="/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisis" title="1998 Russian financial crisis">Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special_Period" title="Special Period">Cuba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Albanian Civil War">Albania</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Eastern_Bloc" class="mw-redirect" title="Collapse of the Eastern Bloc">collapse of the Eastern Bloc</a> in 1989 and the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">dissolution of the Soviet Union</a> in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-WartimeEconomy3_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WartimeEconomy3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYRoB-20183_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYRoB-20183-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reaction">Reaction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=34" title="Edit section: Reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_sanctions">Economic sanctions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=35" title="Edit section: Economic sanctions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Venezuelan_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis">International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis</a></div> <p>The European Union, the Lima Group, the United States and other countries have applied individual sanctions against government officials and members of both the military and security forces as a response to human rights violations, corruption, degradation in the rule of law and repression of <a href="/wiki/Democracy_in_Venezuela" title="Democracy in Venezuela">democracy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sanctions2_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sanctions2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The United States would later extend its sanctions to the petroleum sector.<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo290119_337-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo290119-337"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>330<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cfr.org_199-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cfr.org-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Economists have stated that shortages and high inflation in Venezuela began before US sanctions were directed towards the country.<sup id="cite_ref-338" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-338"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>331<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> said that economists place the blame for Venezuela's economy shrinking by half on "Maduro's policies, including widespread nationalizations, out-of-control spending that sparked inflation, price controls that led to shortages, and widespread graft and mismanagement."<sup id="cite_ref-VenFear_339-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VenFear-339"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>332<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Venezuelan government has stated that the United States is responsible for its economic collapse.<sup id="cite_ref-VenFear_339-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VenFear-339"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>332<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The HRW/Johns Hopkins report noted that most sanctions are "limited to canceling visas and freezing assets of key officials implicated in abuses and corruption. They in no way target the Venezuelan economy."<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The report also stated that the 2017 ban on dealing in Venezuelan government stocks and bonds allows exceptions for food and medicine, and that the 28 January 2019 PDVSA sanctions could worsen the situation, although "the crisis precedes them".<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Washington Post</i> stated that "the deprivation long predates recently imposed US sanctions".<sup id="cite_ref-WAPOHRW_182-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOHRW-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, the United States sanctioned Venezuela's state-owned oil company <a href="/wiki/PDVSA" title="PDVSA">Petróleos de Venezuela</a>. According to executives within the company as well as the Venezuelan government, the sanctions were mostly symbolic and had little effect (if any) on Venezuela's trade with the US since the company's sale of oil to the US and the operations of its US-based subsidiary Citgo were unaffected.<sup id="cite_ref-340" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-340"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>333<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 9 March 2015, <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> signed and issued an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat and ordered sanctions against Venezuelan officials. The sanctions did not affect Venezuela's oil company and trade relations with the US continued.<sup id="cite_ref-341" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-341"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>334<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2017, Trump's administration imposed additional <a href="/wiki/Economic_sanctions" title="Economic sanctions">economic sanctions</a> on Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-342" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-342"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>335<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2018, the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Human_Rights" title="Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights">United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights</a> (OHCHR) documented that "information gathered indicates that the socioeconomic crisis had been unfolding for several years prior to the imposition of these sanctions".<sup id="cite_ref-DownwardSpiral_343-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DownwardSpiral-343"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>336<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, new 2019 sanctions, aimed at depriving the Maduro government of petroleum revenues.<sup id="cite_ref-VenFear_339-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VenFear-339"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>332<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2019, former UN rapporteur <a href="/wiki/Alfred_de_Zayas" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred de Zayas">Alfred de Zayas</a> said that US sanctions on Venezuela were illegal as they constituted <a href="/wiki/Economic_warfare" title="Economic warfare">economic warfare</a> and "could amount to 'crimes against humanity' under international law".<sup id="cite_ref-indreport_344-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indreport-344"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>337<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His report, which he says was ignored by the UN, was criticized by the Latin America and Caribbean programme director for the <a href="/wiki/International_Crisis_Group" title="International Crisis Group">Crisis Group</a> for neglecting to mention the impact of a "difficult business environment on the country", which the director said "was a symptom of Chavismo and the socialist governments' failures", and that "Venezuela could not recover under current government policies even if the sanctions were lifted."<sup id="cite_ref-indreport_344-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indreport-344"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>337<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Michelle Bachelet updated the situation in a 20 March oral report following the visit of a five-person delegation to Venezuela,<sup id="cite_ref-10Keys_345-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10Keys-345"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>338<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> saying that the social and economic crisis was dramatically deteriorating, the government had not acknowledged or addressed the extent of the crisis, and she was concerned that although the "pervasive and devastating economic and social crisis began before the imposition of the first economic sanctions", the sanctions could worsen the situation.<sup id="cite_ref-10Keys_345-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10Keys-345"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>338<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ExtentSeverity_346-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ExtentSeverity-346"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>339<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2019, Jorge Arreaza, Maduro's Minister for Foreign Affairs, said he was forming a coalition of diplomats who "believe the U.S. and others are violating the U.N. charter against non-interference in member states". During the announcement, he was surrounded by diplomats from 16 other countries, including Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and Cuba. Arreaza said the cost to the Venezuelan economy of the US blockade was over $30 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-FMWarns_347-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FMWarns-347"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>340<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Reporting on Arreaza's statements, the <i>Associated Press</i> said that Maduro was blocking aid, and "saying that Venezuelans are not beggars and that the move is part of a U.S.-led coup".<sup id="cite_ref-348" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-348"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>341<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, world leaders called for a suspension of economic sanctions, including against Venezuela and Iran, that have "increasingly become the pursuit of war by other means". The US responded by intensifying the sanctions against Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-349" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-349"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>342<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>An October 2020 report published by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) by Venezuelan economist Luis Oliveros found that "while Venezuela's economic crisis began before the first U.S. sectoral sanctions were imposed in 2017, these measures 'directly contributed to its deep decline, and to the further deterioration of the quality of life of Venezuelans' ". The report concluded that economic sanctions "have cost Venezuela's government as much as $31 billion since 2017"<sup id="cite_ref-350" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-350"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>343<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-351" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-351"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>344<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Alena_Douhan" title="Alena Douhan">Alena Douhan</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_special_rapporteur" title="United Nations special rapporteur">United Nations special rapporteur</a> on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, was due to visit Venezuela in August 2020 to investigate the impact of <a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Venezuelan_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis">international sanctions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_20202_352-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters_20202-352"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>345<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Before her visit, 66 Venezuelan NGOs (including <a href="/wiki/PROVEA" title="PROVEA">PROVEA</a>) asked Douhan in an open letter to consider the harmful impact of sanctions in the context of years of repression, corruption and economic mismanagement that predate the sanctions, and requested she meet independent press and civil society researchers.<sup id="cite_ref-Calles_Calles2_353-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Calles_Calles2-353"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>346<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lusa_20212_354-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lusa_20212-354"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>347<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-355" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-355"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>348<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Käufer_20212_356-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Käufer_20212-356"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>349<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She arrived on 31 January, and was welcomed on arrival by a government minister and the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN.<sup id="cite_ref-Lusa_20212_354-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lusa_20212-354"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>347<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She declared on her preliminary findings as she left on 12 February:<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_20212_357-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_20212-357"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>350<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> that sanctions against Venezuela have had a "devastating" noticeable impact in both the economy and the population.<sup id="cite_ref-358" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-358"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>351<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She said "the increasing number of unilateral sanctions imposed by United States, the European Union and other countries have exacerbated the economic and humanitarian calamities in Venezuela" but that Venezuela's economic decline "began in 2014 with the fall in oil prices" and that "mismanagement and corruption had also contributed." The government welcomed the report, while the opposition accused her of "playing into the hands of the regime" of Maduro.<sup id="cite_ref-Le_Monde.fr_20212_359-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Le_Monde.fr_20212-359"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>352<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DW.COM2_360-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DW.COM2-360"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>353<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sequera_20212_361-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sequera_20212-361"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>354<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Moleiro_20212_362-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moleiro_20212-362"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>355<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Douhan was harshly criticized by the Venezuelan civil society,<sup id="cite_ref-363" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-363"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>356<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and several non-governmental organizations pronounced themselves in social media with the hashtag "<i>#Lacrisisfueprimero</i>" (The crisis came first).<sup id="cite_ref-364" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-364"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>357<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-365" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-365"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>358<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-366" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-366"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>359<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_involvement">Foreign involvement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=36" title="Edit section: Foreign involvement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Trump_Delivers_Remarks_to_the_Venezuelan_American_Community_(47145953601).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/President_Trump_Delivers_Remarks_to_the_Venezuelan_American_Community_%2847145953601%29.jpg/330px-President_Trump_Delivers_Remarks_to_the_Venezuelan_American_Community_%2847145953601%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/President_Trump_Delivers_Remarks_to_the_Venezuelan_American_Community_%2847145953601%29.jpg/495px-President_Trump_Delivers_Remarks_to_the_Venezuelan_American_Community_%2847145953601%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/President_Trump_Delivers_Remarks_to_the_Venezuelan_American_Community_%2847145953601%29.jpg/660px-President_Trump_Delivers_Remarks_to_the_Venezuelan_American_Community_%2847145953601%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>On 18 February, President Trump urged Venezuela's military to abandon Nicolás Maduro or 'lose everything'.<sup id="cite_ref-367" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-367"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>360<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" title="Foreign involvement in the Venezuelan presidential crisis">Foreign involvement in the Venezuelan presidential crisis</a></div> <p>On 11 August 2017, President Trump said that he is "not going to rule out a military option" to confront the autocratic government of Nicolás Maduro and the deepening crisis in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-368" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-368"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>361<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>Military Times</i> said the unnamed aides told Trump it was not wise to even discuss a military solution due to the <a href="/wiki/Latin_America-United_States_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin America-United States relations">long history of unpopular intervention in Latin America by the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MP7517_369-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MP7517-369"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>362<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela's Defense Minister <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez" title="Vladimir Padrino López">Vladimir Padrino</a> criticized Trump for the statement, calling it "an act of supreme extremism" and "an act of madness". The Venezuelan communications minister, <a href="/wiki/Ernesto_Villegas" title="Ernesto Villegas">Ernesto Villegas</a>, said Trump's words amounted to "an unprecedented threat to national sovereignty".<sup id="cite_ref-370" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-370"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>363<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Representatives of the United States were in contact with dissident Venezuelan military officers during 2017 and 2018 but declined to collaborate with them or provide assistance to them.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT9818_371-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT9818-371"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>364<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The opinion of other Latin American nations was split with respect to military intervention. <a href="/wiki/Luis_Almagro" title="Luis Almagro">Luis Almagro</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_General_of_the_Organization_of_American_States" title="Secretary General of the Organization of American States">Secretary General of the Organization of American States</a>, while visiting Colombia, did not rule out the potential benefit of the use of military force to intervene with the crisis. Canada, Colombia and Guyana, which are members of the Lima Group, refused to sign the organization's document rejecting military intervention in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-CR91618_372-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CR91618-372"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>365<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBC91918_373-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBC91918-373"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>366<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, allegations of potential United States military involvement began to circulate,<sup id="cite_ref-Invasion_374-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Invasion-374"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>367<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with military intervention in Venezuela was already being executed by the governments of Cuba and Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-Invasion_374-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Invasion-374"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>367<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to professor Erick Langer of <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a>, while it was being discussed whether the United States would militarily intervene, "Cuba and Russia have already intervened".<sup id="cite_ref-Invasion_374-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Invasion-374"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>367<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Hundreds or thousands of Cuban security forces have allegedly been operating in Venezuela while professor Robert Ellis of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_War_College" title="United States Army War College">United States Army War College</a> described the between several dozen and 400 <a href="/wiki/Wagner_Group" title="Wagner Group">Wagner Group</a> mercenaries provided by Russia as the "palace guard of Nicolás Maduro".<sup id="cite_ref-Invasion_374-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Invasion-374"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>367<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kremlin spokesman <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Peskov" title="Dmitry Peskov">Dmitry Peskov</a> denied the deployment of Russian mercenaries, calling it "fake news".<sup id="cite_ref-375" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-375"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>368<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 2 April 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Russia)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)">Russian Foreign Ministry</a> rejected Trump's call to "get out" saying their 100 military servicemen now in Venezuela will support Maduro "for as long as needed".<sup id="cite_ref-376" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-376"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>369<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Humanitarian_aid">Humanitarian aid</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=37" title="Edit section: Humanitarian aid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2019_shipping_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela" title="2019 shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela">2019 shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Humanitarian_aid_for_Venezuela_in_February_2019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Humanitarian_aid_for_Venezuela_in_February_2019.jpg/220px-Humanitarian_aid_for_Venezuela_in_February_2019.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Humanitarian_aid_for_Venezuela_in_February_2019.jpg/330px-Humanitarian_aid_for_Venezuela_in_February_2019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Humanitarian_aid_for_Venezuela_in_February_2019.jpg/440px-Humanitarian_aid_for_Venezuela_in_February_2019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Aid for Venezuela sent by the United States to Colombia</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Map_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela.png/220px-Map_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Map_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela.png/330px-Map_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Map_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela.png/440px-Map_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela.png 2x" data-file-width="2328" data-file-height="2472" /></a><figcaption>Location of the humanitarian aid points outside of Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <p>Throughout the crisis, humanitarian aid was provided to Venezuelans in need both within Venezuela and abroad. In October 2018, the <a href="/wiki/USNS_Comfort_(T-AH-20)" class="mw-redirect" title="USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)">USNS <i>Comfort</i></a> departed for an eleven-week operation in Latin America, with a primary mission being to assist countries who received <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="Venezuelan refugee crisis">Venezuelan refugees who fled the crisis in Venezuela</a>. The main goal was to relieve health systems in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and other nations which faced the arrival of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-377" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-377"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>370<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the end of January 2019, as the US prepared to bring aid across the border, the <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">International Committee of the Red Cross</a> warned the United States about the risk of delivering humanitarian aid without the approval of the government's security forces.<sup id="cite_ref-PBS_NewsHour_2019_IRCR_378-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PBS_NewsHour_2019_IRCR-378"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>371<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The UN similarly warned the US about politicising the crisis and using aid as a pawn in the power struggle.<sup id="cite_ref-Nichols_2019_379-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nichols_2019-379"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>372<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other humanitarian organisations also raised risks.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR.org_2019_risks_380-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR.org_2019_risks-380"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>373<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 23 February 2019, 14 trucks carrying 280 tons of humanitarian aid attempted to bring aid across the Simon Bolivar and Francisco de Paula Santander bridges from Colombia. There were clashes, with Venezuelan security forces reported to use tear gas attack in attempt to maintain a blockade of the border. Colombia said around 285 people were injured and at least two trucks set on fire.<sup id="cite_ref-DW.COM_trucks2_381-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DW.COM_trucks2-381"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>374<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_2019_trucks2_382-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters_2019_trucks2-382"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>375<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> reported that the Venezuela government accused Guaidó supporters of burning the trucks and noted that "While a CNN team saw incendiary devices from police on the Venezuelan side of the border ignite the trucks, the network's journalists are unsure if the trucks were burned on purpose."<sup id="cite_ref-Cullinane_Castillo_20192_383-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cullinane_Castillo_20192-383"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>376<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March, <i>The New York Times</i> reported that footage showed that it was anti-Maduro protestors rather than Venezuelan security forces who were responsible for the burning trucks.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_2019_video2_384-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times_2019_video2-384"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>377<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_2019_footage2_385-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times_2019_footage2-385"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>378<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> reported that the trucks had been set on fire by anti-Maduro protester who threw a Molotov cocktail that hit one of the trucks.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_2019_footage2_385-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times_2019_footage2-385"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>378<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Colombian foreign minister <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Holmes_Trujillo" title="Carlos Holmes Trujillo">Carlos Holmes Trujillo</a> rejected the claims by <i>The New York Times</i> that the Colombian government manipulated the video of the burning of the aid truck, insisting that Nicolás Maduro was responsible.<sup id="cite_ref-386" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-386"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>379<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Responding when asked about the claims in a <a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC</a> interview, Juan Guaidó stressed that its findings suggested only a possible theory, that it was the newspaper's point of view and that a total of three trucks were burned, while the footage focused on one.<sup id="cite_ref-387" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-387"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>380<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Journalist Karla Salcedo Flores denounced state-run <a href="/wiki/Telesur_(TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Telesur (TV channel)">Telesur</a> for plagiarism and the manipulation of her photos for propaganda purposes after the network claimed protesters poured gasoline on the trucks.<sup id="cite_ref-388" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-388"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>381<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Agence_France-Presse" title="Agence France-Presse">Agence France-Presse</a> published an investigation disproving Telesur's claims with the photos.<sup id="cite_ref-389" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-389"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>382<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bellingcat" title="Bellingcat">Bellingcat</a> reported that since the open source evidence examined for its investigation does not show the moment of ignition, it is not possible to make a definitive determination regarding the cause of the fire.<sup id="cite_ref-390" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-390"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>383<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Franceso Rocca, president of the <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Societies" title="International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies">International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies</a>, announced on 29 March 2019 that the Red Cross was preparing to bring humanitarian aid to the country to help ease both the chronic hunger and the medical crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-RedCrossReady_391-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RedCrossReady-391"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>384<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Guardian</i> reported that Maduro had "long denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis, and on 23 February blocked an effort led by Guaidó to bring aid into the country", and that the Red Cross had "brokered a deal" between the Maduro and Guaidó administrations "indicating a seldom-seen middle ground between the two men".<sup id="cite_ref-RedCrossBrokers_392-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RedCrossBrokers-392"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>385<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Red Cross aid shipments were expected to begin within a few weeks, and the first shipment would help about 650,000 people;<sup id="cite_ref-RedCrossBrokers_392-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RedCrossBrokers-392"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>385<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> simultaneously, a leaked UN report estimated that seven million Venezuelans were likely in need of humanitarian assistance.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianHRW_179-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianHRW-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During what <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> called "Latin America's worst humanitarian crisis ever", the "operation would rival Red Cross relief efforts in war-torn Syria, signaling the depth of Venezuela's crisis."<sup id="cite_ref-AidEffort_90-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AidEffort-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Rocca said the efforts would focus first on hospitals, including state-run facilities, and said the Red Cross was open to the possibility of delivering aid products stored on the Venezuelan borders with Colombia and Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-WarnsAgainst_189-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarnsAgainst-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He warned that the Red Cross would not accept any political interference,<sup id="cite_ref-WarnsAgainst_189-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarnsAgainst-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and said the effort must be "independent, neutral, impartial and unhindered".<sup id="cite_ref-RedCrossBrokers_392-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RedCrossBrokers-392"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>385<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maduro and Arreaza met with representative of Red Cross International on 9 April to discuss the aid effort.<sup id="cite_ref-393" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-393"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>386<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> said that the acceptance of humanitarian shipments by Maduro was his first acknowledgement that Venezuela is "suffering from an economic collapse", adding that "until a few days ago, the government maintained there was no crisis and it didn't need outside help".<sup id="cite_ref-AidEffort_90-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AidEffort-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Guaidó said the acceptance of humanitarian aid was the "result of our pressure and insistence",<sup id="cite_ref-AidEffort_90-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AidEffort-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and called on Venezuelans to "stay vigilant to make sure incoming aid is not diverted for 'corrupt' purposes".<sup id="cite_ref-WarnsAgainst_189-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarnsAgainst-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first Red Cross delivery of supplies for hospitals arrived on 16 April, offering an encouraging sign that the Maduro administration would allow more aid to enter.<sup id="cite_ref-FirstShipment_394-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FirstShipment-394"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>387<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Quoting Tamara Taraciuk—an expert at Human Rights Watch on Venezuela—who called the situation "a completely man-made crisis", <i>The New York Times</i> said the aid effort in Venezuela presented challenges regarding how to deliver aid in an "unprecedented political, economic and humanitarian crisis" that was "caused largely by the policies of a government intent on staying in power, rather than war or natural disaster".<sup id="cite_ref-Grapples_395-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grapples-395"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>388<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Armed pro-government paramilitaries fired weapons to disrupt the first Red Cross delivery, and officials associated with Maduro's party told the Red Cross to leave.<sup id="cite_ref-Grapples_395-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grapples-395"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>388<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>An April 2021 report by the inspector general at <a href="/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development" title="United States Agency for International Development">United States Agency for International Development</a> found that the Trump administration had politicized the early 2019 humanitarian aid package and was motivated by <a href="/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change" title="United States involvement in regime change">regime change</a> in Venezuela more so than ameliorating the humanitarian situation there.<sup id="cite_ref-396" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-396"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>389<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-397" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-397"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>390<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=38" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fuel_shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Fuel shortages in Venezuela">Fuel shortages in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guaire_miners" title="Guaire miners">Guaire miners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pemon_conflict" title="Pemon conflict">Pemon conflict</a> - a theatre of the Venezuelan crisis</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=39" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Venezuela's Living Conditions Survey</i> (ENCOVI) found nearly 75% of the population had lost an average of at least 8.7&#160;kg (19.4&#160;lb) in weight due to a lack of proper nutrition.<sup id="cite_ref-UPI75_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPI75-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Javier Corrales says in <i>Foreign Policy</i>, "...&#160;excessive dependence on commodity exports can distort an economy in fundamental ways. One manifestation of this principle is what has come to be known as 'Dutch Disease' (named after the problems faced by the Netherlands as it reaped a windfall from North Sea oil in the 1970s). Dutch Disease occurs when a country that is excessively dependent on commodity exports experiences a price boom. The sudden inflow of foreign currency raises the demand for local currency, yielding an uncompetitive exchange rate. This overvalued exchange rate, if unaddressed, can kill the country's other exports as well as stimulating an avalanche of imports, which can hurt domestic producers."<sup id="cite_ref-FPmarch2013_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPmarch2013-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sources reporting on claims of the National Assembly being the "only democratically elected" or "only legitimate" political body in Venezuela include: <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economic_Times" title="The Economic Times">Economic Times</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CTV_Television_Network" title="CTV Television Network">CTV</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a> agency,<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Canadian Broadcasting Corporation">CBC</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> etc.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">On unchecked power of the executive: Human Rights Watch 2018 report,<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Human Rights Watch 2017 report,<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Amnesty International,<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Amnesty International on opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-163"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-163">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Venezuela's Living Conditions Survey</i> (ENCOVI) found nearly 75% of the population had lost an average of at least 8.7&#160;kg (19.4&#160;lb) in weight due to a lack of proper nutrition.<sup id="cite_ref-UPI75_41-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPI75-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-186"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-186">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Article 83: Health is a fundamental social right and the responsibility of the State, which shall guarantee it as part of the right to life. The State shall promote and develop policies oriented toward improving the quality of life, common welfare and access to services. All persons have the right to protection of health, as well as the duty to participate actively in the furtherance and protection of the same, and to comply with such health and hygiene measures as may be established by law, and in accordance with international conventions and treaties signed and ratified by the Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-191"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-191">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Illegal mining creates pools of standing water that encourage mosquito breeding, a partial cause of the increase in malaria seen in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW2019Report_149-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW2019Report-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_in_Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=40" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oas.org/documents/eng/press/Informe-Panel-Independiente-Venezuela-EN.pdf">"Report of the General Secretariat Of The Organization Of American States And The Panel Of Independent International Experts On The Possible Commission of Crimes Against Humanity In Venezuela"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Organization of American States. 29 May 2018. p.&#160;70. <q>That same April 19, 23-year-old Paola Andreína Ramírez Gómez, a student at the Catholic University of San Cristóbal, was killed in the vicinity of the Plaza de Las Palomas of the neighborhood of San Carlos, Táchira state, when she was intercepted by several armed civilians on motorcycles "patrolling" the demonstrations taking place in the area. They tried to strip her of her belongings, and as she tried to run away she was struck down by a bullet that perforated her lungs.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Report+of+the+General+Secretariat+Of+The+Organization+Of+American+States+And+The+Panel+Of+Independent+International+Experts+On+The+Possible+Commission+of+Crimes+Against+Humanity+In+Venezuela&amp;rft.pages=70&amp;rft.pub=Organization+of+American+States&amp;rft.date=2018-05-29&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oas.org%2Fdocuments%2Feng%2Fpress%2FInforme-Panel-Independiente-Venezuela-EN.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACrisis+in+Venezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190403162344/https://observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve/colectivos-el-rostro-civil-de-la-represion-en-tachira/">"Colectivos: el rostro civil de la represión en Táchira"</a> (in Spanish). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 March</span> 2019</span>. <q>Allí cayó la joven de 23 años en medio de un enfrentamiento entre un vecino del sector y este grupo armado.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Colectivos%3A+el+rostro+civil+de+la+represi%C3%B3n+en+T%C3%A1chira&amp;rft.pub=Venezuelan+Observatory+of+Violence&amp;rft.date=2017-08-15&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fobservatoriodeviolencia.org.ve%2Fcolectivos-el-rostro-civil-de-la-represion-en-tachira%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACrisis+in+Venezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2017/04/20/video-asi-mataron-los-colectivos-chavistas-a-paola-ramirez-la-segunda-victima-del-19a-en-venezuela/">"Así mataron los colectivos chavistas a Paola Ramírez, la segunda víctima del #19A en Venezuela"</a>. <i>Infobae</i> (in Spanish). 20 April 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 February</span> 2019</span>. <q>No independent government institutions remain today in Venezuela to act as a check on executive power. A series of measures by the Maduro and Chávez governments stacked the courts with judges who make no pretense of independence. The government has been repressing dissent through often-violent crackdowns on street protests, jailing opponents, and prosecuting civilians in military courts. It has also stripped power from the opposition-led legislature. ...In 2017, President Maduro convened a 'Constituent Assembly' by presidential decree, despite a constitutional requirement that a public referendum be held before any effort to rewrite the Constitution. The assembly is made up exclusively of government supporters chosen through an election that Smartmatic, a British company hired by the government to verify the results, called fraudulent. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 August</span> 2024</span>. <q>The Times analysis shows that the election tallies provided by the researchers are not compatible with a victory by Mr. Maduro, by any margin.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Election+Results+Presented+by+Venezuela%27s+Opposition+Suggest+Maduro+Lost+Decisively&amp;rft.date=2024-07-31&amp;rft.issn=0362-4331&amp;rft.aulast=Kurmanaev&amp;rft.aufirst=Anatoly&amp;rft.au=Singer%2C+Ethan&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F07%2F31%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fvenezuela-maduro-election-results.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACrisis+in+Venezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BBC2Aug-137"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BBC2Aug_137-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWells2024" class="citation web cs1">Wells, Ione (2 August 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1d10453zno">"Overwhelming evidence Venezuela opposition won election - Blinken"</a>. <i>BBC News</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2013</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Death of Hugo Chávez">Death of Hugo Chávez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2013 Venezuelan presidential election">Presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakazo" title="Dakazo">Dakazo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Venezuelan_municipal_elections" title="2013 Venezuelan municipal elections">Municipal elections</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Salida" title="La Salida">La Salida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Venezuelan_protests" title="2014 Venezuelan protests">2014 protests</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2014_Venezuelan_protests" title="Timeline of the 2014 Venezuelan protests">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopoldo_L%C3%B3pez#Imprisonment" title="Leopoldo López">Detention of Leopoldo López</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Panama%E2%80%93Venezuela_diplomatic_crisis" title="2014 Panama–Venezuela diplomatic crisis">Panama diplomatic crisis (1st)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuela_Defense_of_Human_Rights_and_Civil_Society_Act_of_2014" title="Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014">Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Ledezma" title="Antonio Ledezma">Detention of Antonio Ledezma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Colombia%E2%80%93Venezuela_migrant_crisis" title="2015 Colombia–Venezuela migrant crisis">Colombian diplomatic/migration crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resolution_8610" title="Resolution 8610">Resolution 8610</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2015_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2015 Venezuelan protests">2015 protests (timeline)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narcosobrinos_affair" title="Narcosobrinos affair">Narcosobrinos affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election">Parliamentary election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IV_National_Assembly_of_Venezuela" title="IV National Assembly of Venezuela">IV National Assembly of Venezuela</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2016</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Tumeremo_massacre" title="2016 Tumeremo massacre">Tumeremo massacre (first)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Venezuelan_recall_referendum_project" title="2016 Venezuelan recall referendum project">Recall referendum movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2016_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2016 Venezuelan protests">2016 protests (timeline)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gilber_Caro#2017_incarceration" title="Gilber Caro">Detention of Gilber Caro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_constitutional_crisis" title="2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis">Constitutional crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mother_of_All_Marches" title="Mother of All Marches">Mother of All Marches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caracas_helicopter_incident" title="Caracas helicopter incident">Caracas helicopter incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_referendum" title="2017 Venezuelan referendum">Referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_National_Assembly_attack" title="2017 Venezuelan National Assembly attack">National Assembly attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_Constituent_Assembly_election" title="2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election">Constituent Assembly election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Members_of_the_2017_National_Constituent_Assembly_of_Venezuela" title="Members of the 2017 National Constituent Assembly of Venezuela">Members</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_regional_elections" title="2017 Venezuelan regional elections">Regional elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_municipal_elections" title="2017 Venezuelan municipal elections">Municipal elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Fort_Paramacay" title="Attack on Fort Paramacay">Attack on Fort Paramacay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_Garc%C3%ADa_(politician)" title="Carlos Andrés García (politician)">Death of Carlos Andrés García</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_against_Hatred" title="Law against Hatred">Law against Hatred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests" title="2017 Venezuelan protests">2017 protests</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2017_Venezuelan_protests" title="Timeline of the 2017 Venezuelan protests">timeline</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2018</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Junquito_raid" title="El Junquito raid">El Junquito raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_presidential_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 Nicolás Maduro presidential campaign">Presidential campaign of Nicolás Maduro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Valencia,_Venezuela_fire" title="2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire">Valencia fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Panama%E2%80%93Venezuela_diplomatic_crisis" title="2018 Panama–Venezuela diplomatic crisis">Panama diplomatic crisis (2nd)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2018 Venezuelan presidential election">Presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Para%C3%ADso_stampede" title="El Paraíso stampede">El Paraíso stampede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caracas_drone_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Caracas drone attack">Caracas drone attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detention_of_Juan_Requesens" title="Detention of Juan Requesens">Detention of Juan Requesens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viernes_Rojo" title="Viernes Rojo">Economic reforms and <i>Viernes Rojo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Alb%C3%A1n" title="Fernando Albán">Murder of Fernando Albán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2018_Tumeremo_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="October 2018 Tumeremo massacre">Tumeremo massacre (third)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2018_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2018 Venezuelan protests">2018 protests (timeline)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Second inauguration of Nicolás Maduro">Inauguration of Nicolás Maduro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuela_TPS_Act_of_2019" title="Venezuela TPS Act of 2019">Venezuela TPS Act of 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plan_Pa%C3%ADs" title="Plan País">Plan País</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_shipping_of_humanitarian_aid_to_Venezuela" title="2019 shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela">Humanitarian aid mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_Amnesty_Law" title="2019 Venezuelan Amnesty Law">Amnesty Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuela_Aid_Live" title="Venezuela Aid Live">Venezuela Aid Live</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statute_Governing_the_Transition_to_Democracy" title="Statute Governing the Transition to Democracy">Statute Governing the Transition to Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al%C3%AD_Dom%C3%ADnguez" title="Alí Domínguez">Murder of Alí Domínguez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_blackouts" title="2019 Venezuelan blackouts">Widespread blackouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Marrero" title="Roberto Marrero">Detention of Roberto Marrero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilber_Caro#2019_detention_and_disappearance" title="Gilber Caro">Disappearance of Gilber Caro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_uprising_attempt" title="2019 Venezuelan uprising attempt">30 April uprising attempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acarigua_prison_riot" title="Acarigua prison riot">Acarigua prison riot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Acosta_Ar%C3%A9valo" title="Rafael Acosta Arévalo">Death of Rafael Acosta Arévalo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_of_Rufo_Chac%C3%B3n" title="Attack of Rufo Chacón">Attack of Rufo Chacón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Carlos_M%C3%A1rquez" title="Juan Carlos Márquez">Death of Juan Carlos Márquez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmundo_Rada" title="Edmundo Rada">Murder of Edmundo Rada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Alacr%C3%A1n" title="Operación Alacrán">Operación Alacrán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_protests" title="2019 Venezuelan protests">2019 protests</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019_Venezuelan_protests" title="Timeline of the 2019 Venezuelan protests">timeline</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Venezuelan_National_Assembly_Delegated_Committee_election" title="2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election">National Assembly leadership election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Addy_Valero" title="Addy Valero">Death of Addy Valero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Cagua_fire" title="2020 Cagua fire">Cagua fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Barquisimeto_shooting" title="2020 Barquisimeto shooting">Barquisimeto shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guanare_prison_riot" title="Guanare prison riot">Guanare prison riot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)" title="Operation Gideon (2020)">Operation Gideon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_El_Palito_oil_spill" title="2020 El Palito oil spill">El Palito oil spill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Saab" title="Alex Saab">Detention of Alex Saab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election">Parliamentary election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V_National_Assembly_of_Venezuela" title="V National Assembly of Venezuela">V National Assembly of Venezuela</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Vega_raid" title="La Vega raid">La Vega raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Apure_clashes" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Apure clashes">Apure clashes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2022</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2022_Arauca_clashes" title="2022 Arauca clashes">Arauca clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Venezuelan_recall_referendum_project" title="2022 Venezuelan recall referendum project">Recall referendum project</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2023</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Solidarity_Law" title="Anti-Solidarity Law">Anti-Solidarity Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbados_Agreement" title="Barbados Agreement">Barbados Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Unitary_Platform_presidential_primaries" title="2023 Unitary Platform presidential primaries">Unitary Platform presidential primaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Venezuelan_referendum" title="2023 Venezuelan referendum">Referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis">Guyana–Venezuela crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_El_Palito_oil_spill" title="2023 El Palito oil spill">El Palito oil spill</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2024</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Detention_of_Roc%C3%ADo_San_Miguel" title="Detention of Rocío San Miguel">Detention of Rocío San Miguel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_against_Fascism,_Neofascism_and_Similar_Expressions" title="Law against Fascism, Neofascism and Similar Expressions">Law against Fascism, Neofascism and Similar Expressions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulla_Loca_mine_disaster" title="Bulla Loca mine disaster">Bulla Loca mine disaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">Presidential election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="International reactions to the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election">international reactions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_political_crisis" title="2024 Venezuelan political crisis">political crisis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_blackouts" title="2024 Venezuelan blackouts">Widespread blackouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_the_Argentine_Embassy_and_ambassador%27s_residence_in_Venezuela" title="Siege of the Argentine Embassy and ambassador&#39;s residence in Venezuela">Argentine embassy siege</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Deaths during protests</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bassil_Da_Costa" title="Bassil Da Costa">Bassil Da Costa</a></li> <li>Robert Redman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9nesis_Carmona" title="Génesis Carmona">Génesis Carmona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geraldin_Moreno" title="Geraldin Moreno">Geraldin Moreno</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Kluivert_Roa" title="Murder of Kluivert Roa">Kluivert Roa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Paola_Ram%C3%ADrez" title="Killing of Paola Ramírez">Paola Ramírez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Pablo_Pernalete" title="Juan Pablo Pernalete">Juan Pablo Pernalete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Armando_Ca%C3%B1izales" title="Killing of Armando Cañizales">Armando Cañizales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Miguel_Castillo" title="Killing of Miguel Castillo">Miguel Castillo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Pa%C3%BAl_Moreno" title="Killing of Paúl Moreno">Paúl Moreno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Figuera" title="Orlando Figuera">Orlando Figuera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neomar_Lander" title="Neomar Lander">Neomar Lander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Fabi%C3%A1n_Urbina" title="Killing of Fabián Urbina">Fabián Urbina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_David_Vallenilla" title="Killing of David Vallenilla">David Vallenilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Xiomara_Scott" title="Killing of Xiomara Scott">Xiomara Scott</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pro-Maduro</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Ameliach" title="Francisco Ameliach">F. Ameliach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diosdado_Cabello" title="Diosdado Cabello">D. Cabello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ad%C3%A1n_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Adán Chávez">A. Chávez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tareck_El_Aissami" title="Tareck El Aissami">T. El Aissami</a> <ul><li>arrested in 2024</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Escarr%C3%A1" title="Hermann Escarrá">H. Escarrá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarek_William_Saab" title="Tarek William Saab">T. W. Saab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cilia_Flores" title="Cilia Flores">C. Flores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arist%C3%B3bulo_Ist%C3%BAriz" class="mw-redirect" title="Aristóbulo Istúriz">A. Istúriz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El%C3%ADas_Jaua" title="Elías Jaua">E. Jaua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibisay_Lucena" title="Tibisay Lucena">T. Lucena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indira_Alfonzo" title="Indira Alfonzo">I. Alfonzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_Guerra" title="Nicolás Maduro Guerra">N. Maduro Guerra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Mata_Figueroa" title="Carlos Mata Figueroa">C. Mata Figueroa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmen_Mel%C3%A9ndez" title="Carmen Meléndez">C. Meléndez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cl%C3%ADver_Alcal%C3%A1_Cordones" title="Clíver Alcalá Cordones">C. Alcalá Cordones</a> <ul><li>until 2013</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luisa_Ortega_D%C3%ADaz" title="Luisa Ortega Díaz">L. Ortega Díaz</a> <ul><li>until 2017</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez" title="Vladimir Padrino López">V. Padrino López</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez_(politician)" title="Rafael Ramírez (politician)">R. Ramírez</a> <ul><li>until 2018</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Parra" title="Luis Parra">L. Parra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Rangel_Silva" title="Henry Rangel Silva">H. Rangel Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delcy_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Delcy Rodríguez">D. Rodríguez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Rodr%C3%ADguez_(Venezuelan_politician)" title="Jorge Rodríguez (Venezuelan politician)">J. Rodríguez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Arreaza" title="Jorge Arreaza">J. Arreaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isa%C3%ADas_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Isaías Rodríguez">I. Rodríguez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarek_William_Saab" title="Tarek William Saab">T. W. Saab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iris_Varela" title="Iris Varela">I. Varela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dar%C3%ADo_Vivas" title="Darío Vivas">D. Vivas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_Amoroso" title="Elvis Amoroso">E. Amoroso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bladimir_Lugo" title="Bladimir Lugo">B. Lugo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Cristopher_Figuera" title="Manuel Cristopher Figuera">M. C. Figuera</a> <ul><li>until 2019</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erika_Far%C3%ADas" title="Erika Farías">E. Farías</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddy_Bernal" title="Freddy Bernal">F. Bernal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indira_Alfonzo" title="Indira Alfonzo">I. Alfonzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yv%C3%A1n_Gil" title="Yván Gil">Y. Gil</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Anti-Maduro</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%93scar_Alberto_P%C3%A9rez" title="Óscar Alberto Pérez">Óscar Pérez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cl%C3%ADver_Alcal%C3%A1_Cordones" title="Clíver Alcalá Cordones">C. Alcalá Cordones</a> <ul><li>since 2013</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julio_Borges" title="Julio Borges">J. Borges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luisa_Ortega_D%C3%ADaz" title="Luisa Ortega Díaz">L. Ortega Díaz</a> <ul><li>since 2017</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez_(politician)" title="Rafael Ramírez (politician)">Rafael Ramírez</a> <ul><li>since 2018</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado" title="María Corina Machado">María Corina Machado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henrique_Capriles" title="Henrique Capriles">H. Capriles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Falc%C3%B3n" title="Henri Falcón">H. Falcón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamara_Adri%C3%A1n" title="Tamara Adrián">Adrián</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diego_Arria" title="Diego Arria">Arria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Guillermo_Aveledo" title="Ramón Guillermo Aveledo">Aveledo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilber_Caro" title="Gilber Caro">Caro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddy_Guevara" title="Freddy Guevara">F. Guevara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Ledezma" title="Antonio Ledezma">A. Ledezma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopoldo_L%C3%B3pez" title="Leopoldo López">L. López</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosmit_Mantilla" title="Rosmit Mantilla">Mantilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enrique_Mendoza" title="Enrique Mendoza">Mendoza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_P%C3%A9rez_%C3%81lvarez" title="Pablo Pérez Álvarez">Pérez Álvarez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_P%C3%A9rez_Vivas" title="César Pérez Vivas">Pérez Vivas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ramos_Allup" title="Henry Ramos Allup">Ramos Allup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Requesens" title="Juan Requesens">J. Requesens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafaela_Requesens" title="Rafaela Requesens">R. Requesens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabiana_Rosales" title="Fabiana Rosales">F. Rosales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Rosales" title="Manuel Rosales">M. Rosales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henrique_Salas_Feo" title="Henrique Salas Feo">H. Salas Feo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicencio_Scarano_Spisso" title="Vicencio Scarano Spisso">V. S. Scarano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilian_Tintori" title="Lilian Tintori">L. Tintori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Torrealba" title="Jesús Torrealba">J. Torrealba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Vel%C3%A1squez" title="Andrés Velásquez">A. Velásquez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Silva_Silva" title="José Luis Silva Silva">J. L. Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Cristopher_Figuera" title="Manuel Cristopher Figuera">M. C. Figuera</a> <ul><li>since 2019</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delsa_Sol%C3%B3rzano" title="Delsa Solórzano">D. Solórzano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Barboza" title="Omar Barboza">O. Barboza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JJ_Rend%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="JJ Rendón">J. J. Rendón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Pablo_Guanipa" title="Juan Pablo Guanipa">J. P. Guanipa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Guanipa" title="Tomás Guanipa">T. Guanipa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pro-Maduro</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations" title="Union of South American Nations">Union of South American Nations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ALBA" title="ALBA">Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas</a></li> <li>Political parties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_Pole" title="Great Patriotic Pole">Great Patriotic Pole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party of Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_Social_Democracy" title="For Social Democracy">PODEMOS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Electoral_Movement_(Venezuela)" title="People&#39;s Electoral Movement (Venezuela)">People's Electoral Movement</a></li></ul></li> <li>Media outlets <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agencia_Venezolana_de_Noticias" title="Agencia Venezolana de Noticias">Agencia Venezolana de Noticias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telesur" title="Telesur">Telesur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezolana_de_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="Venezolana de Televisión">Venezolana de Televisión</a></li></ul></li> <li>State organizations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(Venezuela)" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)">Supreme Tribunal of Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Electoral_Council_(Venezuela)" title="National Electoral Council (Venezuela)">National Electoral Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Constituent_National_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Constituent National Assembly">Constituent National Assembly</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Intelligence_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolivarian Intelligence Service">Bolivarian Intelligence Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_National_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolivarian National Guard">Bolivarian National Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission_Barrio_Adentro" title="Mission Barrio Adentro">Mission Barrio Adentro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_Committees_for_Supply_and_Production" title="Local Committees for Supply and Production">Local Committees for Supply and Production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeland_card" title="Homeland card">Carnet de la Patria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colectivo_(Venezuela)" title="Colectivo (Venezuela)">Colectivos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Anti-Maduro</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercosur" title="Mercosur">Mercosur</a></li> <li>Political parties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unity_Roundtable" title="Democratic Unity Roundtable">Democratic Unity Roundtable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Will" title="Popular Will">Popular Will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justice_First" title="Justice First">Justice First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Action_(Venezuela)" title="Democratic Action (Venezuela)">Democratic Action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_New_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Era">Un Nuevo Tiempo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Come_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Come Venezuela">Come Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copei" title="Copei">Copei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Movement_for_Socialism_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement for Socialism (Venezuela)">Movimiento al Socialismo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Advance" title="Progressive Advance">Progressive Advance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agreement_for_Change" title="Agreement for Change">Agreement for Change</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly (Venezuela)">National Assembly (majority)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitolio_TV" title="Capitolio TV">Capitolio TV</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Enforced_disappearances_in_Venezuela" title="Enforced disappearances in Venezuela">Enforced disappearances in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guaire_miners" title="Guaire miners">Guaire miners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela" title="Human rights in Venezuela">Human rights in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_investigation_in_Venezuela" title="International Criminal Court investigation in Venezuela">International Criminal Court investigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orinoco_Mining_Arc" title="Orinoco Mining Arc">Orinoco Mining Arc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perrera" title="Perrera">Perrera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_prisoners_in_Venezuela" title="Political prisoners in Venezuela">Political prisoners in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolving_door_effect" title="Revolving door effect">Revolving door effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torture_in_Venezuela" title="Torture in Venezuela">Torture in Venezuela</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In popular culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_(2023_film)" title="Simón (2023 film)">Simón</a></i> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution_in_film" title="Bolivarian Revolution in film">Bolivarian Revolution in film</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Hugo_Chávez" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar 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and career</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Early_life_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Early life of Hugo Chávez">Early life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_career_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Military career of Hugo Chávez">Military career</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_1992_Venezuelan_coup_attempt" title="February 1992 Venezuelan coup attempt">Coup attempt of 1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="1998 Venezuelan presidential election">Presidential election of 1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Death of Hugo Chávez">Death and state funeral</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hugo_Rafael_Ch%C3%A1vez_Fr%C3%ADas.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Presidential_Standard_of_Venezuela.svg/150px-Presidential_Standard_of_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Presidential_Standard_of_Venezuela.svg/200px-Presidential_Standard_of_Venezuela.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidency of Hugo Chávez">Presidency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Hugo Chávez">Cabinet of Hugo Chávez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">1999 Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Venezuelan_general_election" title="2000 Venezuelan general election">General election of 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2006 Venezuelan presidential election">Presidential election of 2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party of Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Venezuelan_constitutional_referendum" title="2007 Venezuelan constitutional referendum">Constitutional referendum of 2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Venezuelan_constitutional_referendum" title="2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum">Constitutional referendum of 2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2012 Venezuelan presidential election">Presidential election of 2012</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Political events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état attempt">Coup attempt of 2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_general_strike_of_2002%E2%80%932003" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003">Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Venezuelan_recall_referendum" title="2004 Venezuelan recall referendum">Recall referendum of 2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2005 Venezuelan parliamentary election">2005 Venezuelan parliamentary election</a></li> <li>2007 protests <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Venezuelan_RCTV_protests" title="2007 Venezuelan RCTV protests">RCTV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Venezuelan_referendum_protests" title="2007 Venezuelan referendum protests">Referendum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election">2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Domestic policy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boliburgues%C3%ADa" class="mw-redirect" title="Boliburguesía">Boliburguesía</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarianism" title="Bolivarianism">Bolivarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Circles" title="Bolivarian Circles">Bolivarian Circles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_missions" title="Bolivarian missions">Bolivarian missions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chavismo" title="Chavismo">Chavismo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colectivo_(Venezuela)" title="Colectivo (Venezuela)">Colectivos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_administration" title="Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez administration">Economic policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plan_Bol%C3%ADvar_2000" title="Plan Bolívar 2000">Plan Bolívar 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialism_of_the_21st_century" title="Socialism of the 21st century">Socialism of the 21st century</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_communal_councils" title="Venezuelan communal councils">Venezuelan communal councils</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign policy of the Hugo Chávez government">Foreign policy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_the_South" title="Bank of the South">Bank of the South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ALBA" title="ALBA">Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Community_of_Latin_American_and_Caribbean_States" title="Community of Latin American and Caribbean States">Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrocaribe" title="Petrocaribe">Petrocaribe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Image</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Al%C3%B3_Presidente" title="Aló Presidente">Aló Presidente</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_propaganda" title="Bolivarian propaganda">Bolivarian propaganda</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chavismo:_The_Plague_of_the_21st_Century" title="Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century">Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/El_ocaso_del_socialismo_m%C3%A1gico" title="El ocaso del socialismo mágico">El ocaso del socialismo mágico</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/El_pueblo_soy_yo" title="El pueblo soy yo">El pueblo soy yo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez%27s_cult_of_personality" title="Hugo Chávez&#39;s cult of personality">Hugo Chávez's cult of personality</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mi_amigo_Hugo" title="Mi amigo Hugo">Mi amigo Hugo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C2%BFPor_qu%C3%A9_no_te_callas%3F" title="¿Por qué no te callas?">¿Por qué no te callas?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_image_of_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Public image of Hugo Chávez">Public image of Hugo Chávez</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/%C2%BF%C2%A1Revoluci%C3%B3n!%3F" title="¿¡Revolución!?">¿¡Revolución!?</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TeleSUR" class="mw-redirect" title="TeleSUR">teleSUR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Silence_and_the_Scorpion" title="The Silence and the Scorpion">The Silence and the Scorpion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelanalysis" 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selflink">Crisis in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Venezuela" title="Administrative divisions of Venezuela">Administrative divisions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Venezuela" title="Regions of Venezuela">Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/States_of_Venezuela" title="States of Venezuela">States</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Venezuela" title="Elections in Venezuela">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Venezuela" title="Foreign relations of Venezuela">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Venezuela" title="Law enforcement in Venezuela">Law enforcement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Bolivarian_Armed_Forces_of_Venezuela" title="National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_missions" title="Bolivarian 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