An altar featuring a statue of Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez, a Catholic Saint from Venezuela, decorates a wall of a deteriorated room where two patients are hospitalized at the Luis Razetti Oncology Hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, September 2, 2020. The hospital, which stopped admitting new cancer patients at the start of the mid-March lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, lacks water, air conditioning, supplies like lab materials, and even doctors, while only one of the five operating rooms is operational. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A man wakes up after sleeping on the grass next to his vehicle on his fourth day waiting in line to get a government gasoline coupon to fill up the tank in Merida, Venezuela, Monday, September 21, 2020. Gasoline shortages have returned to Venezuela, that holds the world's largest oil reserves, but it is unable to refine enough crude to meet its domestic needs. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Men who were detained for not complying with COVID-19 regulations by breaking curfew or attending block parties, are transported in a police van to a coliseum, in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, early Saturday, August 8, 2020, as part of an operation to educate residents on the risks of being out and socializing in groups amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Residents are released a few hours later after receiving instruction on best social distancing practices. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





The veterinarian and environmentalist Grecia Marquis cares for a spectacled owl who fell from a tree a month ago dehydrated and underweight, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, September 21, 2020. Marquis, founder of the Feathers and Tails in Freedom foundation, said that given the large number of calls from people reporting cases of injured animals, she decided to reopen her center in May, after closing it between March and April due to the quarantine imposed to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A man wearing a protective face mask hitches a ride in his wheelchair by grabbing on to the back of a motorcycle, near the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 8, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A woman who tested positive for COVID-19 arrives on a government bus to a former students residence being used to quarantine asymptomatic patients infected with the new coronavirus in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Men sit on a curb alongside vehicles lined up to enter a gas station during a nation-side fuel crunch, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, September 30, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A shoeshiner, wearing a protective face mask, brushes a shoe on Sabana Grande boulevard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 1, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





In this May 25, 2020 file photo, people push a car that ran out of gas to a state-run oil company PDVSA filling station during a fuel crunch in Caracas, Venezuela. With motorists waiting in lines to fill up their cars with gas that is increasingly scarce, the government proposed in Oct. 2020 to the Constitutional Assembly an “Anti-Blockade Law,” to get around U.S. sanctions. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo/File)





A city worker sprays disinfectant on shuttered storefronts in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 8, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Walter Rivera, director of the Coche wholesale market shouts the rules to prevent the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease to sellers and customers amid the outbreak in Caracas, Venezuela on July 23, 2020. (Photo by Manaure Quintero/Reuters)





Nurse Vanessa Castro removes her face mask as she reaches home after a night shift in Central Hospital in Maracay, amid the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Venezuela on September 4, 2020. (Photo by Manaure Quintero/Reuters)





Venezuelan Doctor Jose Brizuela is sprayed with disinfectant by another doctor after checking on asymptomatic COVID-19 patients quarantined at a hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, August30, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Bricklayers by trade, Jonny Gomez, 22, and Jean Carlos Almeida, 35, prepare to clean their catch of the day on the shore of Playa Escondida in La Guaira, Venezuela, Friday, August 14, 2020. “If we had steady work, we wouldn't risk our lives out there”, said Almeida, who is among a number of Venezuelans desperate to feed their families amid the new coronavirus pandemic are heading out to the open sea on inner tubes armed with a hook and line. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A face mask with an image of Venezuelan popular saint Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez and a face shield sit on a table before a Mass with social distancing at the La Anunciación del Señor Parish in the Baruta neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, October 4, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





The “Oilworkers” sculpture by Beatriz Blanco is reflected in the sunglasses of a woman wearing a stylized protective face mask as a precaution against the new coronavirus, on Sabana Grande boulevard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 1, 2020. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Reflected in the rearview mirror, Leo Camejo sits with his partner Ada Mendoza and their newborn baby daughter Peyton as a friend drives them home after being discharged from the hospital, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, September 12, 2020. The young couple met three years ago thanks to their love of soccer, as fans of the Caracas F.C. team. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Miranda state beauty pageant contestant Luiseth Materan, wearing a protective face mask issued by the Miss Venezuela beauty pageant, arrives to the Venevision television station to prepare for a meeting with judges, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, September 18, 2020. Quarantine rules and social distancing has forced the contestants to train at home and online with limited access to the venue itself where strict measures are in place. The pageant is due to take place on Sept. 24. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Father Honegger Molina live streams a Mass at the La Anunciación del Señor Parish in the Baruta neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, October 4, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A macaw flies down as it looks to land on an antenna for food, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, September 5, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Caracas' signature bird, the blue-and-yellow macaw, is one of four such species that inhabit the valley. Legend has it that it was introduced in the 1970s by Italian immigrant Vittorio Poggi, who says he nurtured a lost macaw and trained it to fly with his motorcycle as he cruised around his neighborhood. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)