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Poverty & Hunger

Bolivarian Republic of

Venezuela

In the early years of the 21st Century

Description: Description: Venezuela

CAUTION:  The following links and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Venezuela in the early years of the 21st Century.  Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated, misleading or even false.   No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content.

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*** Extreme Weather ***

Venezuela has been affected by severe weather patterns associated with the La Niña phenomenon. La Niña involves cooling of the Pacific Ocean and typically brings wetter conditions to regions like Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

In recent weeks, heavy rains caused floods and landslides in Venezuela, resulting in casualties. Las Tejerias, a city south of Caracas, has been hit hard by these extreme weather events.  Deadly landslides have swept away homes, and rescue efforts are ongoing to find missing individuals.

The El Pato river burst its banks, leading to devastating floods in Las Tejerias.   adapted from Microsoft BING Copilot

*** ARCHIVES ***

The World Factbook - Venezuela

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA

www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ve.html

[accessed 17 November 2020]

World Factbook website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/venezuela/

[accessed 11 January 2021]

ECONOMIC OVERVIEW - remains highly dependent on oil revenues, which account for almost all export earnings and nearly half of the government’s revenue; domestic production and industry continues to severely underperform; continues to rely on imports to meet its basic food and consumer goods needs.

GDP - per capita (PPP): $12,500 (2017 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 7.3%

industry: 21.8%

services: 70.9% (4th quarter, 2011 est.)

Unemployment rate: 27.1% (2017 est.)

Population below poverty line: 19.7% (2015 est.)

Maternal mortality rate: 125 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)

Infant mortality rate: total: 27.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71 years

Drinking water source: improved: total: 95.7% of population

Physicians density: --

Sanitation facility access: improved: total: 93.9% of population

Electricity access: electrification - total population: 99.6% (2016)

The Borgen Project - Venezuela

borgenproject.org/category/venezuela/

[accessed 21 March 2021]

The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the United States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for the world’s poor.  It is an innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.  It believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote, nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living conditions for those living on less than $1 per day.

~ Colombia Needs Help Helping Venezuelan Refugees

borgenproject.org/helping-venezuelan-refugees/

~ Humanitarian Crisis: Vital Relief To Venezuela

borgenproject.org/vital-relief-to-venezuela/

~ Blackouts: The Issue Of Electricity In Venezuela

borgenproject.org/electricity-in-venezuela/

~ Reforms For Saving The Venezuelan Economy

borgenproject.org/saving-the-venezuelan-economy/

~ No Water, No Power: Child Poverty In Venezuela

borgenproject.org/child-poverty-in-venezuela/

~ The Link Between Poverty And Inflation

borgenproject.org/poverty-and-inflation/

~ Rappi: The Colombian Unicorn That Has Given Venezuelans A Chance

borgenproject.org/rappi/

~ Alimenta La Solidaridad Fights Food Insecurity

borgenproject.org/alimenta-la-solidaridad-fights-food-insecurity/

~ Bettertogether Challenge Offers Hope To Venezuelans

borgenproject.org/bettertogether-challenge/

Conflict, climate change, and COVID-19 drive extreme hunger

Oxfam, 9 July 2021

www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/conflict-climate-change-and-covid-19-drive-extreme-hunger/

[accessed 19 July 2021]

The effects of conflict, COVID-19, and climate change have intensified the global hunger crisis.

VENEZUELA -- Clavel Lopez,* 62, lives in a border municipality of Venezuela. Getting food to eat is a daily struggle. Heavy rains plague the area, so people like Clavel, who survives off the food grown in her small plantation, face further food insecurity.

As a pensioner, Lopez receives a monthly income and rations. Since the pandemic began, she says the rations have been cut down to a packet of flour or a kilo of rice.

Millions of Venezuelans are Fleeing Hunger, Poverty and Instability

Sofia Sprechmann, CARE, Quito Ecuador, 15 May 2021

www.care.org/news-and-stories/news/millions-of-venezuelans-are-fleeing-hunger-poverty-and-instability-2/

[accessed 16 May 2021]

Over 3 million people have now fled Venezuela due to instability, hunger and poverty. Almost half of them are estimated to be women and around 30 percent children. 90 percent of the country’s population has dropped below the poverty line and 300,000 children are at risk of dying from malnutrition. 

The current humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the surrounding region is having a particularly alarming effect on women and girls. As women try desperately to feed and clothe their families, an increasing number are being forced or tricked into prostitution by trafficking rings. The often illegal status of Venezuelan women in many countries within the region also increases their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse.

The World Bank in Venezuela

www.worldbank.org/en/country/venezuela

[accessed 21 April 2021]

Currently, the World Bank does not have a portfolio of active loans in Venezuela.

Looking back a few years …

Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations

www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Americas/Venezuela-ECONOMY.html

[accessed 12 January 2021]

For over 40 years the economy has been completely dominated by the petroleum industry; in the mid-1980s, oil exports accounted for 90% of all export value, and in 2002 petroleum accounted for over one-third of the GDP, three-fourths of export revenues and half of government revenues.

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