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Venezuelan farms go waste due to diesel shortage 10 hours ago Luc Cohen and Keren Torres, Reuters Venezuelan farmer Agustin Zenere should have been planting corn by the second week of May a crucial task in the economically devastated South American country where 7 million people are food insecure. Instead, his 30-hectare (74-acre) plot of land in the breadbasket town of Turen was still covered with the brown, shriveled leaves of a sesame crop he could not harvest in time because the government had not given him enough diesel to run his tractors. Diesel shortages have grown acute in the once-prosperous OPEC nation since late last year, when the United States ended an exemption to its crippling sanctions on state oil company PDVSA aimed at ousting President Nicolas Maduro that had allowed it to swap crude oil in exchange for imported diesel. With farmers warning they may not have the fuel needed to plant staple corn and truckers sounding t ....
Diesel shortages paralyze Venezuelan farms, prompting sanctions debate reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Backlash after mayors marked homes with Covid-19 warning signs in Venezuela cnn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2 Min Read BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela (Reuters) - A mayor in central Venezuela has begun placing red warning symbols on the homes of people with COVID-19 and also threatened to cut welfare handouts for those breaking quarantine. People walk behind a yellow tape reading Danger do not pass blocking a street to prevent people from going to a nearby market, amid a spike in infections of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that has led the government to extend lockdown measures, in Caracas, Venezuela April 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria “We are protecting our people,” said Luis Duque, the mayor of Sucre municipality in Yaracuy state, pointing to a white paper sign on a home with a red circle and line drawn through. ....
(Adds comment from Chief Prosecutor) BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela, April 7 (Reuters) - A mayor in central Venezuela has begun placing red warning symbols on the homes of people with COVID-19 and also threatened to cut welfare handouts for those breaking quarantine, prompting the country’s chief prosecutor to open an investigation. “We are protecting our people,” said Luis Duque, the mayor of Sucre municipality in Yaracuy state, pointing to a white paper sign on a home with a red circle and line drawn through. “This indicates that there is a Covid case or a suspected Covid case, so the people are alert,” he added in a video posted this week to his Instagram account. ....