Visitors float on pink colored inflatable tubes at the Parque Dunas water park in Valencia, Venezuela, Sunday, January 28, 2024. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A man carries a wings costume during Carnival in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, February 12, 2024. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A couple is drenched with water during carnival celebrations in the Pinto Salinas neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, February 13, 2024. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Couples take part in a collective wedding in Caracas, Venezuela, 14 February 2024. 21 couples joined their lives in marriage during the third collective wedding organized by the Mayor's Office of Chacao, in Caracas, on the occasion of Valentine's Day. (Photo by Rayner Pena R./EPA/EFE)





A sister of miner Santiago Mora, left, cries with other relatives as he is buried at the cemetery in La Paragua, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Thursday, February 22, 2024. The collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela killed at least 14 people and injured several more, state authorities said Wednesday, as some other officials reported an undetermined number of people could be trapped. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A sister of miner Santiago Mora cries as he is buried at the cemetery in La Paragua, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Thursday, February 22, 2024. The collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela killed at least 14 people and injured several more, state authorities said Wednesday, as some other officials reported an undetermined number of people could be trapped. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Women carry babies after arriving by boat from La Bulla Loca mine, which collapsed, in La Paragua, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Friday, February 23, 2024. The collapse of the illegally operated open-pit gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela killed at least 16 people. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Confetti showers Bolivarian Militia members and government supporters at a march commemorating a 2004 speech by late President Hugo Chavez that is considered by his supporters a key anti-imperialist moment in the history of his Bolivarian Revolution in Caracas, Thursday, February 29, 2024. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro takes part in a rally to commemorate 20 years of the anti-imperialist declaration of the late former President Hugo Chavez in Caracas on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters during a rally in Guacara, Carabobo State, Venezuela on March 13, 2024. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





A drone view shows athletes participating in the 8th CAF Caracas Marathon 2024, in Caracas, Venezuela on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





A member of the Palmeros de Chacao brotherhood weaves a palm leaf that will be blessed ahead of Palm Sunday, which marks the first day of the Holy Week, in Caracas, Venezuela on March 23, 2024. (Photo by Gaby Oraa/Reuters)





Members of the Palmeros de Chacao brotherhood sing while carrying packs of palm leaves to be blessed ahead of Palm Sunday which marks the first day of the Holy Week, in Caracas, Venezuela on March 23, 2024. (Photo by Gaby Oraa/Reuters)





Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C-L) greets supporters outside the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE) after formalizing his candidacy before the Venezuelan electoral authority in Caracas on March 25, 2024. President Nicolas Maduro on Monday officially registered his candidacy in July elections, while the opposition remained blocked from signing up its aspirant with just hours until the clock runs out. Maduro, 61, formalized his third-term run for the presidency with great fanfare, as thousands turned out to rally behind him and the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





A penitent walks on her knees in the Nazarene of Saint Paul Holy Week procession, outside the Basilica of St. Teresa, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A penitent depicting the role of Jesus Christ is whipped by a fellow devotee playing the role of a Roman soldier, during a Way of the Cross reenactment, as part of Holy Week celebrations in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A devotee dressed as a Roman soldier places his foot on the face of penitent playing the role of one of two thieves sentenced to be crucified alongside Jesus Christ, during a Way of the Cross reenactment, as part of Holy Week celebrations in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 29, 2024. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A resident pours gasoline over an effigy wearing a sash with the Spanish word for fascist, as part of The Burning of the Judases Easter Sunday tradition, in Caracas, Venezuela, March 31, 2024. Venezuelans came out to watch the burning of Judas effigies, the apostle who betrayed Jesus Christ, but also effigies of personalities who represent evil and corruption. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A dummy representing “the abuser” is burnt during the traditional “burning of Judas”, the biblical figure who supposedly betrayed Jesus, during Easter celebrations, at El Cementerio neighbourhood in Caracas, on March 31, 2024. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





Students lift their cuatro during the national day of the musical instrument at Bolivr Square in Caracas on April 4, 2024. The cuatro is a four-stringed instrument of colonial origin in the guitar family that is used in all folkloric rhythms of Venezuela and Colombia. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)