July 25, 2024

Funds seized in U.S. help Venezuela health workers survive crisis

Retrieved from El Informador

For Venezuelan hospital security guard Yurymay Diaz to buy a full cart of groceries and put aside enough money to buy new shoes for her daughter, it took two special bonus payments worth nearly 20 times her monthly salary. The two $100 deposits to the 48-year-old mother of two in September and October did not come from the Caracas hospital where she works, but rather from funds seized by the United States from the government of President Nicolas Maduro. By Brian Ellsworth, Vivian Sequera. Full Text -> Reuters

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