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FIFA president Gianni Infantino, left, smiles after receiving the shirt of the Venezuelan soccer team with Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, right, during his visit at Miraflores Presidential Palace in in Caracas, Venezuela , Friday , Oct 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Atletico Venezuela vs Caracas FC 10/14/2021

Oct. 16, 2021 03:36 PM EDT

FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020 by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. The oil executives jailed in Venezuela more than three years ago on corruption charges were granted house arrest on Friday, April 30, 2021, in a gesture of goodwill toward the Biden administration as it reviews its policy toward the politically turbulent South American country. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)
Venezuela gives US oilmen house arrest in gesture to Biden

By Joshua Goodman Apr. 30, 2021 08:59 PM EDT

Maria Comedor watches a live television broadcast of the Beatification ceremony for the late, Venezuelan Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez inside her washateria she operates in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 30, 2021. Known as the "doctor of the poor, Hernandez is being Beatified by the Catholic church, a step towards sainthood. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuela's 'doctor of the poor' beatified in small ceremony

By Jorge Rueda Apr. 30, 2021 12:28 PM EDT

The remains of Venezuelan Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez popularly known as the "doctor of the poor", sit in an urn backdropped by his portrait, inside the Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria Catholic church, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 23, 2021. Hernandez is set to be beatified by the Catholic church, a step towards sainthood, on April 30th in the Venezuelan capital. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuela's beloved 'doctor of the poor' to be beatified

By Jorge Rueda Apr. 29, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on March 6, 2021, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin arrives ahead of an interreligious meeting with Pope Francis near the archaeological area of the Sumerian city-state of Ur, 20 kilometers south-west of Nasiriyah, Iraq. The Vatican No. 2 is skipping a planned trip to Venezuela this week because of the coronavirus pandemic. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s former ambassador to Caracas, had planned to celebrate the April 30 beatification of Jose Gregorio Hernandez, dubbed the “doctor of the poor.” The Vatican said Wednesday that due to issues linked to the pandemic, Parolin wouldn’t make the trip. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini/FILE)
Vatican No 2 skips trip to Venezuela, cites pandemic

Apr. 28, 2021 08:44 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2021, file photo, a nurse cleans a patient suffering from COVID-19 in the ICU at the La Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France. The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday, April 17, 2021, amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)
Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million

By David Biller, Maria Cheng And Joshua Goodman Apr. 17, 2021 04:40 AM EDT

Alberto Alfonso turns on a generator to keep oxygen concentrators working as nurse Marlene Cabezasstand stands next to him in the living room of the Lares family apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 18, 2021. The Lares family is being treated at home for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuelan COVID patients increasingly seeking in-home care

By Juan Pablo Arráez And Jorge Rueda Mar. 25, 2021 10:01 AM EDT

Youths looking for valuable items in the trash to resell ride on the back of a garbage truck entering the Pavia garbage dump on the outskirts of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Annually, about 14% of the world’s food ends up in the garbage, even before it reaches the market, according to figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, but now in Venezuela, extremely high costs push people to reconsider what they throw away. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuelan children pick through garbage for food, valuables

By Juan Pablo Arráez Mar. 10, 2021 01:47 PM EST

Musicians join pianist, composer and conductor Jose Agustin Sanchez on the bed of an 18-wheeler truck for a musical tour coined a "musical disinfection" in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Sanchez, who last year started playing what he calls his "Musical Vaccine" for COVID patients, is now joined by other musicians as they ride through the city playing his original compositions for anybody that wants to listen. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Mobile orchestra tries to bring cheer to Venezuelan streets

By Juan Pablo Arráez Mar. 05, 2021 05:58 PM EST

A boy who was involved in a motorcycle accident is transported to the hospital by Angels of the Road volunteer paramedics in their only ambulance in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The volunteer corps relies on donated medical supplies and funding from international organizations to provide much-needed emergency services, operating entirely independent of the government. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Volunteer paramedics patrol streets of Venezuela's capital

By Scott Smith Feb. 16, 2021 10:58 AM EST

Elena Escalante helps her 3-year-old daughter Zaii prepare for a homespun beauty pageant in the Antimano neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Neighbors in the hillside barrio gathered for the carnival pageant tradition to select their child queen for the upcoming festivities. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Amid pandemic, Venezuelans have fun picking Carnival queen

Feb. 05, 2021 05:37 PM EST

Motorcycle stuntman Pedro Aldana fixes his brakes during an exhibition in the Ojo de Agua neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. The 33-year-old makes a living with his shows, inspiring his young fans who flock to his shop, where he teaches them to change the oil and tune up their bicycles. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Stunts in the streets for Venezuelan motorcycle virtuoso

By Scott Smith Feb. 01, 2021 03:12 PM EST

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Venezuela power struggle impedes delivery of COVID vaccine

By Joshua Goodman And Scott Smith Jan. 22, 2021 11:52 AM EST

Venezuela's baseball season kicks off but virus takes a toll

By Fabiola Sanchez Nov. 27, 2020 06:05 PM EST
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s storied baseball season kicked off Friday — and an economic crisis and global pandemic will make it one for the record...

Nancy Rodriguez, a 76-year-old COVID-19 patient, wipes tears as she explains her battle with the virus under a tent for patients who will be discharged from the Peréz de León II Hospital, a public hospital where Doctors Without Borders operates in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 22, 2020. Venezuela's count of roughly 800 COVID-19 deaths among its more than 90,000 cases is likely an undercount, as many are fearful of the broken health care system and choose to stay home. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Doctors Without Borders ends COVID care in Venezuela clinic

By Scott Smith Nov. 25, 2020 03:46 PM EST

Erika Cordero explains a homework assignment to her young charges in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. Cordero, 33, tutors small groups of neighborhood children in her mother's home. They cover everything from long division to reading, said Cordero, who sees too many children falling behind. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
UN: Pandemic threatens Latin America's next generation

By Scott Smith Nov. 09, 2020 09:54 AM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020 file photo, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center right, walks with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center-left, at the Prime Minister's office in Addis Ababa. President Donald Trump has largely neglected Africa, with one glaring exception: the tussle between two of the continent's most powerful countries, Ethiopia and Egypt, over a massive dam project on a tributary of the Nile. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)
Nation by nation, the world watches Election Day in the US

By The Associated Press Nov. 03, 2020 10:20 AM EST

In this undated photo courtesy of the Heath family, Matthew Heath navigates a boat near the Florida Keys. Heath's family says he kept a boat in Key West, Florida with the hope it would be his ticket to a new career on the water and free of the toils of private security work he had been doing for more than a decade. (Heath family via AP)
Mystery surrounds former Marine's imprisonment in Venezuela

By Joshua Goodman Oct. 31, 2020 09:54 AM EDT

A man on crutches holds packages of homemade arepas given to him by 55-year-old publicist Andres Burgos, who started handing out the corn flour patties to needy children, adults and the elderly, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. Burgos started small with his own money a year ago, passing out a few arepas on his bicycle route from home to the office, or in visits to nearby hospitals. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Ad exec feeds downtrodden Venezuelans from his bicycle seat

By Fabiola Sánchez Oct. 29, 2020 10:39 AM EDT

Photographed through a door from outside the José Gregorio Hernández Hospital, Mirley Avila feeds her father Miguel Avila inside the COVID-19 wing in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, on a day when there weren't enough nurses so they let her in to feed him, change his sheets and undergarments. According to Caracas Nurses College President Ana Rosario Contreras, a 2018 survey by the organization found that at least 6,000 nurses have abandoned Venezuela and that the number has grown since. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuelans brave COVID wing to bathe, feed sick loved ones

By Scott Smith Oct. 27, 2020 09:50 AM EDT