60 countries pledge over $3B in emergency aid for Venezuelan refugees who have fled the economic collapse in their country and are now in neighboring nations amid the coronavirus pandemic. - NBCLatino
“The plight of Venezuelan refugees and migrants has worsened even further,” said Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees during a virtual pledging conference hosted by the European Union, Canada, Spain, Norway, and the United Nations. “The impact of COVID-19 is dramatic for countries across Latin America and the Caribbean and has pushed the Venezuelans living there into a spiral of poverty and despair.
The Venezuelan government instituted a nationwide quarantine on March 17, restricting movement and ordering all businesses to close except those considered essential. Despite having the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela has little gasoline as a result of mismanagement, corruption, a spiraling, and over a year of U.S. sanctions. The first of five Iranian oil tankers delivered 1.5 million barrels of gasoline to Venezuela.
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