AZVEN UPDATE 9-1-19

AZVEN UPDATE 9 JAN 2019

Note: BBC using a new format, at the link.


How Venezuela's crisis developed and drove out millions of people
8 hours ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877.

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A motorcyclist drives past a sign saying "President Maduro: Together everything is possible"

Venezuela's economy is in freefall.
Hyperinflation, power cuts and shortages of food and medicine are driving millions of Venezuelans out of the country.

And yet the man many blame for the dire state of the nation,
Nicolás Maduro, is about to be sworn in as president for another six years.

So what is going on with Venezuela's economy, how did it get to this point,
and what have Mr Maduro and his government done to halt the country's decline?

How Venezuela's crisis developed and drove out millions of people

A motorcyclist drives past a sign saying "President Maduro: Together everything is possible"

So what is going on with Venezuela's economy, how did it get to this point, and what have Mr Maduro
and his government done to halt the country's decline?

What about the people left behind?

Those who have chosen to remain in Venezuela are still facing empty supermarket shelves, deadly power cuts,
a lack of access to medication and
employers worrying about how they will pay for a 60-fold rise in the minimum wage since August 2018.

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