In this August 20, 2018 photo, a boy is reflected in a puddle of crude spilling from a well in Cabimas on the outskirts of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Broken down oil platforms span the vast Maracaibo Lake, with downwind shores soaked in oil. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this August 20, 2018 photo, a fisherman collects water contaminated with oil from Maracaibo Lake in Cabimas, Venezuela. The fisherman will use the water to clean fish. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this June 14, 2018 photo, designs by Venezuelan designer Otayma Zerpa are displayed on a table, at her workshop in Valencia, Venezuela. In Venezuela, competing comes at a high price: elaborate sequined gowns and pricey cosmetic surgeries are out of reach for most in a country where inflation is running in the five digits and state workers earn about $3 a month. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this June 23, 2018 photo, a contestant wearing a swimsuit answers a question from a judge during an interview at a casting for Miss Our Beauty Venezuela Contest, at a hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. As the nation plummets into economic ruin, even more young women are holding fast to dreams of becoming beauty queens. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this June 20, 2018 photo, Johandrys Colls practices makeup during a class at the Belankazar Modeling Academy in Caracas, Venezuela. In Venezuela, competing comes at a high price: elaborate sequined gowns and pricey cosmetic surgeries are out of reach for most in a country where inflation is running in the five digits and state workers earn about $3 a month. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this June 20, 2018 photo, a teacher explains to her students how to walk on a catwalk during a class at Belankazar Modeling Academy, in Caracas, Venezuela. As the nation plummets into economic ruin, even more young women are holding fast to dreams of becoming beauty queens. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this July 1, 2018 photo, Johandrys Colls, left, speaks with her sister Camila on the balcony of their home, in a slum on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. Colls still remembers watching the Miss Venezuela pageant with her family at 6-years-old and then stealing her mom's high heels to imitate the beauty queens on screen. “It's inspiring”, she said, her lips curling into a smile at the memory. “It's something beautiful to see them compete and share their talent with the world”. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





A woman wears a cardboard hat with dry grass on top and letters in Spanish that read “CLAP”, referring to government subsidized food through the “CLAP” program, which stands for Local Committees of Supply and Production, during a protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, August 16, 2018. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





In this August 20, 2018 photo, a family plays with their son after they collected drinking water in a plastic drum from a public fountain, in Cabimas, Venezuela. For months Maracaibo's residents have endured rolling blackouts. Basic services like running water and electricity have become a luxury. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Employees are pictured at the entrance of a bar in an empty street of Caracas, on October 16, 2018. When the sun goes down, loneliness reigns in the streets of Caracas, punished by unbridled crime and the economic crisis. According to NGOs, some 26,000 violent deaths were recorded in 2017 in Venezuela, with a rate of 89 per 100,000 inhabitants, 15 times higher than the world average. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP Photo)





An injured protester receives a medical treatment during a student march, in Caracas, Venezuela, 21 November 2018. The Bolivarian National Police used tear gas to prevent a march of university students, who with the support of the rest of civil society, claim the crisis in the country has affected higher education institutions. The demonstrators were trying to leave the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in the center of Caracas, where they had previously gathered to discuss the problems of the educational centers, but the PNB officials blocked the exits of the institution with police fences. (Photo by Miguel Gutiérrez/EPA/EFE)





In this Friday, August 3, 2018 photo, men utilize cardboard boxes to shade themselves from the sun's rays as they wait in line to take part in a vehicle census announced by Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, in the first step to regulate the sale of gasoline, in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





In this August 19, 2018 photo, Mireya Marquez uses candlelight to cook her dinner of boiled “cassava”, also known as yuca and manioc, during a blackout in Maracaibo, Venezuela. For months Maracaibo's residents have endured rolling blackouts, but things turned dire on August 10 when a fire destroyed a main power line supplying the city of 1.5 million people. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this August 19, 2018 photo, a customer smells a piece of spoiled meat at a market in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Venezuelans are lining up at one of the country's largest markets to buy spoiled meat. It makes some sick, but at bargain prices, it's the only way they can afford beef. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





In this August 19, 2018 photo, spoiled meat due to rolling blackouts sits for sale at a market in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The state’s governor recently said the rampant blackouts were being repaired, yet relief has yet to come. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Women fill containers with water coming from a mountain, in a road at Plan de Manzano slum in Caracas, Venezuela July 20, 2018. Water cuts are the latest addition to a long list of woes for Venezuelans hurting from a fifth year of an economic crisis that has sparked malnutrition, hyperinflation and emigration. Malfunctions in the capital's water network due to lack of maintenance have taken a turn for the worst in recent months, depriving many in this city of 3 million people of regular running water. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





A bathroom at the gynecology hospitalization area of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) hospital is seen in Caracas, August 8, 2018. Venezuela's socialist government typically says water cuts are due to sabotage by right-wing “terrorists”. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez in July announced a “special plan” to fix the issues, but did not provide details. The Information Ministry and Hidrocapital did not respond to a request for information. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





People fill containers with water coming from a mountain, in a road at Plan de Manzano slum in Caracas, July 20, 2018. Around 11 percent said they thought dirty water had caused skin and stomach problems. The survey does not have comparative figures. Medical consequences are hard to gauge as the Health Ministry no longer releases once-weekly data, but doctors say scabies and diarrhea are on the rise. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Venezuelan 100 bolivar notes thrown by people in a trash bin are seen at a gas station of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA in Caracas, Venezuela on August 21, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





People line up outside a supermarket next to motorists queuing for gas near a gas station of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA in San Cristobal, Venezuela on November 13, 2018. (Photo by Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters)





Members of the honour guard look on as North Korea's President of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong Nam arrives at Miraflores Palace to have a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela on November 27, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Richard Gamboa, dressed up as Santa Claus, walks in an alley of the slum Cota 905 during the “Santa en las calles” (Santa in the streets) event donating toys, food, and clothes in Caracas, Venezuela on December 1, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Richard Gamboa walks in an alley of the slum Cota 905 during the “Santa en las calles” (Santa in the streets) event donating toys, food, and clothes in Caracas, Venezuela on December 1, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)





Richard Gamboa walks in a street of the slum Cota 905 during the “Santa en las calles” (Santa in the streets) event donating toys, food, and clothes in Caracas, Venezuela on December 1, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)