Jose Vidal, consoles his sick wife, at a public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Two elderly women walk into the Alba Caracas hotel to get their first dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine after being in line for more than 5 hours, during a massive vaccination campaign for seniors in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 31, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Father Felix Mendoza, a Venezuelan Catholic priest, center, prays over a woman who cries, saying she is in physical pain, at a public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Father Felix has been visiting patients at the hospital to comfort the sick, for the last 20 years. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Venezuelan artist Miguel Garcia puts on the finishing touches on his mural of Venezuelan popular saint, Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 26, 2021. Known as the doctor of the poor, Hernandez is set to be beatified by the Catholic church, a step towards sainthood, on April 30th. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Venezuelan artist Mervin Marmol puts finishing touches on his painting of late Venezuelan Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez at the street corner where he died in a car accident in 1919 in La Pastora neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 26, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Artist Susan Applewhite attaches her recycled cardboard cutout of the late Venezuelan Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez, popularly known as the “doctor of the poor”, onto a bus stop bench, in downtown in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A woman prays close to a painting of Venezuelan popular saint, Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez at the street where he died in a car accident in 1919, in La Pastora neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Venezuelan government supporters gather on Bolivar Avenue in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 8, 2021, during a gathering to show solidarity with the protesters in Colombia who were against a proposed tax plan, since withdrawn by the president. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds a painting with the image of Simon Bolivar while participating in a march to commemorate May Day in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2021. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





Yaruby Mendoza is attended by healers Hermano Sebastian and Hermana Maria Cristina at the Lino Valles Spiritual Center, in an area known as “The Alleyway of the Witches” in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 3, 2021. Venezuelans have been turning to the Afro-Cuban tradition of Santeria for healing ceremonies aimed at curing everything from illness to heartache for decades. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Medical workers with private clinics wait to get their first dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 28, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Luis Rocio sits on his bed inside a shared bedroom at the Nosotros Unidos Foundation, a home for the elderly where he has been living for over a year, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 14, 2021. Rocio, 70, said he works as a nighttime security guard in a residential area and earns the minimum wage of $3.35 dollars a month, and cannot afford to rent a room. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Members of the Multidisciplinary Circus Nuevo Karakara practice aerial acrobatics after the COVID-19 lockdown was eased in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A nurse inoculates a woman with a dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Perez Carreno public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 9, 2021. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A farm worker holds bell peppers during a harvest in Cubiro, Venezuela on May 12, 2021. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





A farmer drives a combine harvester in a sesame field in Turen, Venezuela on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





Dancing devils shake maracas during Corpus Christi celebrations in San Francisco de Yare, Venezuela, Thursday, June 3, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Carnival-like dance, in which the devils pay penance and ask for relief from physical ailments, symbolizes the ongoing struggle between good and evil. The tradition dates to 1742, when liberal priests in Venezuela used it to include African slaves who were not permitted to worship in the same church as their white masters. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Children play in an abandoned military exercise field in the Ojo de Agua neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 23, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





An oil tanker is seen during sunset in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, on May 31, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Cortez/AFP Photo)