This year, more protesters hit the streets in
Venezuela, as a recession in the oil-rich nation keeps getting worse.
Essentially continuing Hugo Chávez's economic policy, President Nicolás Maduro
has enacted price and currency controls on US dollars, leading to further
shortages of food, medicine, and other basic necessities. These demonstrations
have been growing increasingly more violent, with dozens killed and more than
700 injured in more than a month of protests, according to Venezuela's state
prosecutor's office. But amid the destruction, a group led by young medical
students from the Central University of Venezuela, known as "Green
Cross" because of the symbol the members wear on their helmets, has been
providing primary care. They receive many of their supplies from outside
donations, as they can't obtain them in their country. In the field, these men
and women, most of them in their 20s, tend to those who have been subjected to
tear gas, rubber bullets, and flying stones. More…
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