World Food Program Set to Help Venezuelan Children

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A girl reaches for a tangerine at a soup kitchen in Petare, Venezuela, February 27, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos On April 19, the World Food Program (WFP), the United Nations’ food assistance branch, announced it had reached an agreement with the Nicolás Maduro government, after over a year of negotiations, to deploy in Venezuela to supply food to young children in need. The agreement is a huge step toward mitigating Venezuela’s spiraling humanitarian emergency, a crisis that predates the Covid-19 pandemic and for which Venezuelan authorities are largely…

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