Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2016 / 05:04 am
Amid Venezuela's grave economic crisis, the country's bishops have urged the government of President Nicolás Maduro to allow the Church to bring in much-needed supplies such as food and medicine.
Venezuela is suffering from a triple-digit inflation rate, economic recession, shortages of basic goods, and a power crisis.
In their April 27 statement, the Venezuelan bishops warned that never before had the country suffered from such an "extreme lack of goods and basic food and health products" along with "an upsurge in murderous and inhuman crime, the unreliable rationing of electricity and water, and deep corruption in all levels of the government and society."
"Casting the situation in terms of an ideology and pragmatism in order to manipulate it are exacerbating it," they warned.