Valeria, an investment banker for the past eight years in Venezuela, had secured a job with Fiduciam as senior underwriter, but getting to London was going to be an ordeal. Even though she had valid reasons for leaving the country the only way to get out was through humanitarian channels. Here’s her story…Valeria Quintana Barbella. Full Text -> Financial Report

National air activities were reactivated in Venezuela this Monday, as part of the flexible quarantine week, reported the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (Inac). Full Text -> Explica

Some commercial flights will be allowed, too, and citizens were asked to behave; Tons of medical supplies arrived to Venezuela; A scheme of pillaging begins in Los Roques. By Naky Soto. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, authorities in Venezuela, El Salvador and Paraguay have held tens of thousands of people in inadequate state-run quarantine centres without sufficient safeguards against human rights violations, in what could amount to ill-treatment and risk the detentions becoming arbitrary, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. Full Text-> AmnestyInternational

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From that point on, her life was completely controlled by Venezuela’s government, she says — from where she slept to what she ate. “I was immediately isolated from that moment on. I heard nothing from my family, I didn’t have any contact with them, I couldn’t get anywhere near them,” she says. “I felt frustrated, I thought I was going to die.” By Vasco Cotovio and Isa Soares. Full Text -> CNN

The notorious conditions at those centres, which include hospitals, repurposed gyms and abandoned hotels, have prompted many people who experience symptoms to avoid testing, analysts say. That’s making it harder to contain the virus in a country where the health system has already been damaged by years of shortages and mismanagement. By Fabiola Sanchez -> Full Text-> The Standard

Caracas and the neighboring states Miranda and Vargas, as well as the border Zulia, Táchira (both with Colombia) Bolívar (Brazil) and Sucre (Trinidad and Tobago) enter “radical quarantine as a result of the growth of cases” of COVID-19, he said the president in a televised transmission. Full Text-> Web24News

Venezuela’s embattled ruler President Nicolas Maduro has made the most of the coronavirus lockdown to stamp his authority over the country’s key political institutions, all in the matter of a week. By Stefano Pozzebon. Full Text -> CNN

Venezuela extended a ban on most commercial and private flights for at least another 30 days to 12 July to support government efforts to contain the Covid-19 virus. Full Text-> ArgusNews

Commercial airlines association (ALAV) director Humberto Figuera says local airlines are waiting for a decision from the government’s civil aviation authority (INAC) on whether operations will be allowed to restart at 6am ET on 13 June. The ban took effect in March as part of pandemic restrictions.e. Full Text ->ArgusNews