A strict lockdown will be enforced in Venezuela for the week of Easter, President Nicolas Maduro has announced. At the same time, strategic sectors such as healthcare, communications, and food supplies will continue to work as usual, Maduro said at a Sunday meeting, broadcast on Twitter. Full Text -> India Blooms

Colombia will keep its land and river borders closed until Jan. 16 to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections, the country’s migration agency said Monday.  The measure is especially aimed at stopping the flow of migration from neighboring Venezuela, which shares a porous border with Colombia that is crossed by millions of migrants seeking to escape Venezuela’s economic and social crises.  By Laura Gamba. Full Text -> Anadolu Agency

Linda serves an inn. Ruben grows strawberries. They are not direct relatives, but they share the surname Breindenbach, inherited from the founders of Colonia Tovar, a German town in Venezuela that tries to wake up from the “nightmare” of covid-19 and the lack of gasoline. Full Text -> Inspired Traveler

“We are going into the 7 days of radical, conscious and voluntary quarantine… It is the last quarantine week of the year that prepares us for December‘s safe easing in certain economic sectors,” Maduro said on his Twitter account on Sunday.By Umer Jamshaid. Full Text -> UrduPointNews

From this Monday the 16th to Sunday the 22nd of November, a new day of flexibility will be in force in Venezuela. These seven days correspond to the 7 + 7 method that has been used in recent months in the country, since it was decreed by Nicolás Maduro with the aim of recovering economic stability.. Full Text -> Explica

The long queues for gasoline in Venezuela are suffocating and humiliating. There, vans have mattresses in the back to sleep on at night, people bring beach chairs to sit in the street, pets lie down at the feet of their owners, some people play dominoes and others use their car door to cover themselves while urinating in the street. By Edgary Rodríguez R. Full Text -> Global Comment

Over the past few days, local Socialist party councils have issued permits to thousands of families living in the Catia barrio that allow only one family member out at a time, and deployed a feared special police unit to enforce the measure, community leaders and residents told Reuters. By Mayela Armas and Corina Pons. Full text -> Sheboygan’s Radio

Roadblocks across Venezuela snarled the transportation of goods on Tuesday and businesses in the capital Caracas reported that food deliveries failed to arrive, in signs that a national coronavirus quarantine could worsen a humanitarian crisis. By Angus Berwick, Brian Ellsworth and Vivian Sequera. Full text-> Yahoo Sports