Venezuela's Humanitarian Crisis
Humanitarian crisis and refugee camps are not part of the image of Latin America in the world.
A middle-income region with a growing middle class, Latin America is supposed to be better than that. The alternative picture—thousands of refugees on the march, a destroyed economy and people on the verge of starvation—is jarring.
It may also be one reason as to why the world is only now waking up to the fact that Venezuela, which sits on the world’s largest proven oil reserves, is collapsing.
Venezuela suffers from hyperinflation. A fifth of Venezuelan children are malnourished and starvation is now a gruesome reality.
Social indicators have cratered to the point where Venezuela’s global peers are mostly desperate war-torn nations such as Syria and Yemen. Street crime has spiked. Caracas has become the most dangerous city on earth.
Severe violations of the right to health, as well as difficulties accessing food and other basic services, are putting thousands of people’s lives at risk in Venezuela and fueling a regional forced migration crisis, Amnesty International said today on the launch of its digital platform
Venezuela: Unattended health rights crisis is forcing thousands to flee