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 ...

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 ...

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%.

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.

A recent survey by the Andrés Bello Catholic University revealed that while the number of those living in poverty in Venezuela had fallen from 65.2% in 2021 to 50.5% in 2022, income inequality ...

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 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 ...

The absurdity of sanctioning poor people in Venezuela but not criminals in Guatemala is an artifact of old-fashioned Cold War-era thinking at the U.S. State Department.

Government corruption and Maduro's mishandling of the economy have led to food shortages and massive poverty. That's prompted more than 7 million Venezuelans to flee the country, and about 2.5 ...

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 ...

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 ...