More Venezuelan Children Dying From Preventable Diseases Amid Crisis

Twelve-year-old Samuel Becerra went to Venezuela's main pediatric hospital for routine dialysis in March. Within two months, he was dead, along with three other youngsters who also developed bacterial infections at the J.M. de los Rios children's hospital in Caracas. They were just a few of the many children who have died during a rapidly worsening health crisis in Venezuela, according to doctors, patients, and official and private data. Millions of Venezuelans are struggling with shortages and triple-digit inflation during political and economic upheaval that has triggered months of street protests where at least 75 people have been killed. More…