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75% of six million Venezuelan migrants go unfed, unhoused, says UN
The United Nations said on Wednesday that almost three-quarters of the six million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America do not have adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care. The UN's International Organisation for Migration said in a report that 4.37 million of the Venezuelans who fled to other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean often live on the streets or inadequate housing, and often go hungry. Latin America and the Caribbean host 84 per cent of the estimated total of about 7 million Venezuelans who emigrated in recent years. The IOM and the UN refugee agency said that half of the Venezuelans in Latin America can't afford three meals a day. Many are forced to turn to sex work to meet their basic needs, the report said. Other take out informal loans or turn to begging. In Colombia, one of the countries that has received the largest number of Venezuelans, 29 per cent of Venezuelan children between the ages of 6 and 17 are not enrolled in ...
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Inflation-stricken Venezuela rolls out new, larger-denomination banknotes
Venezuela this week is rolling out larger-denomination banknotes as hyperinflation batters the crisis-stricken South American country's bolivar currency
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Venezuela's PDVSA confirms oil leak into sea near refinery complex
PDVSA discovered the spill in the Golfete de Coro area in Falcon state during an aerial inspection, a statement from the company said
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US seizes four Iranian fuel shipments to Venezuela, confiscates cargo
Tensions between Iran and the United States increased last year following a series of incidents involving shipping in and near the Middle East Gulf
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US lifts Venezuela-related sanctions imposed on shipping firms, tankers
A Treasury representative said the delisted entities had committed to cease involvement in the Venezuelan oil sector as long as Maduro, who is accused of rigging his 2018 re-election, remains in power
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Three years after $1-billion Venezuela deal, US oil firm shuts doors
Horizontal never completed the wells, its financial backer took a provision for losses on the loan, and Venezuela's production continued to fall
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A cigarette or a candy bar, that's all you need to buy fuel in Venezuela
Bartering at the pump has taken off as hyperinflation makes Venezuela's paper currency, the bolivar, hard to find and renders some denominations all but worthless, so that nobody will accept them
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Bank of England blocks Nicolas Maduro's $1.2 billion gold withdrawal
EU takes sides against Maduro in Venezuela's power struggle
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