Poverty in Venezuela has fallen to 50.5% amid the South American country's economic recovery, though income inequality continued to widen, according to a study by the National Poll of Living ...

The investigation at the heart of FRONTLINE’s new documentary A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela unfolded as Venezuelan journalist Roberto Deniz started ...

These data contrast with those offered by the Living Conditions Survey (Encovi) in July 2020, which placed extreme poverty at 79.3% (more than 22 million people) and income poverty at 96.2%.

I was born in Venezuela in 1988, and raised during what was then called a revolution. President Hugo Chávez, first elected in 1999, introduced a series of social welfare programs intended to ...

Venezuela’s 360% inflation fuels migration, poverty. While the economy is slowly improving, a quarter of Venezuela’s population has left the country as high inflation and low wages persist.

The findings underscore deep urban-rural inequality in the country, which in 2022 saw overall poverty fall for the first time in seven years, writes contributor Tony Frangie Mawad.

When the US agreed to normalise relations with Venezuela, it was on the proviso that Nicolás Maduro would hold "free and fair elections". The authoritarian president, who inherited power from the ...

In 2021, according to the National Poll of Living Conditions, more than half the population lived in poverty. In Venezuela, there are now multiple international investigations into government ...

Venezuela has an estimated debt burden of $150 billion or higher. Hyperinflation. ... Myanmar has struggled with military rule, civil war, poor governance, and widespread poverty.

In Venezuela, she said, she was lucky she could even attend school. Many other teenagers start working at an early age to help out their families, who often face extreme poverty.

The Cardón refinery, Venezuela's second-largest with a capacity of 310,000 barrels per day, shut down after a power outage halted all operations.

Poverty in Venezuela has fallen to 50.5% amid the South American country's economic recovery, though income inequality continued to widen, according to a study by the National Poll of Living ...