Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that is consequently causing a mass exodus of its people. Over the last decade, there has been an exorbitant increase in violence and insecurity, medicine and food shortages, poverty, inflation, political instability, as well as deterioration of currency, infrastructure, and human rights. As of the end of October 2019, 4.5 millions Venezuelans have fled the country, thousands of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition, and people are contracting formerly eradicated diseases. In addition, trafficking of women for sex and forced labor is increasing throughout the region.
Refugee Crisis Venezuela, once a prosperous country known for hosting migrants from around the world who sought social and economic opportunities, is now the country with the worst migration crisis in the western hemisphere. |
Health System Crisis In the past 10 years, the severe economic crisis in Venezuela has had a dire effect on the country’s public health system. |
Electric System Crisis The first devastating blackout happened on March 7, 2019 and plunged almost all of the country’s 23 states into darkness for five days in a row. |