Diosdado Cabello, a candidate for Monagas state for the Great Patriotic Pole party in the upcoming National Assembly elections, left, bump fists with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during a closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, December 3, 2020. Venezuelans will vote for a new National Assembly on Sunday, Dec 6. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, campaigns for a spot in the National Assembly for the upcoming Dec. 6 midterm elections, in Maiquetía, Venezuela, Sunday, November 29, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A government supporter known as “Caperucita”, or Little Red Riding Hood, holds a photo of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as she looks for something in her purse in Plaza Bolivar, near the National Assembly where newly elected National Assembly lawmakers will be sworn-in and hold their first session of the year in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, January 5, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Jorge Rodriguez, right, lifts his fist after being sworn-in as president of the National Assembly, in front of a photo of late President Hugo Chavez, at Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, January 5, 2021. The ruling socialist party assumed the leadership of Venezuela's congress, the last institution in the country it didn't already control. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Government supporters, one with photos of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, left, and independence hero Simon Bolivar with the Spanish message “We're back”, stand outside the National Assembly where lawmakers are being sworn-in, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, January 5, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Girls play with their toys as their parents rest outside of their home in Petare neighborhood on Christmas Day in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, December 25, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





An elderly woman is helped by a soldier at the entrance to the San Jose de Calazans College Electoral Center in Valencia, Carabobo state, Venezuela on December 6, 2020. (Photo by Elena Fernandez/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Residents tap into a fire hydrant to fill their containers with water in the San Juan neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Venezuela's economic crisis has sent millions fleeing and those left behind lacking basic goods, including gasoline, in a country with one of the world's largest proven oil reserves. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Men siphon from a car gasoline that they will store and then return to the gas station to fill up again, in the San Juan neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Filling stations will only fill up car and motorcycle tanks, but not containers to avoid people from storing gasoline. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A man walks past a mural depicting Venezuelan late President Hugo Chavez (C) saluting and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) holding a child in Caracas on December 9, 2020. In Venezuelan nobody wants bolivars, the weakened national currency. Everything can be payed for in dollars, which have been prohibited for 15 years, but keep gaining power in a country hit by years of recession and hyperinflation. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





In this October 10, 2020 file photo, photographed through a door from outside the José Gregorio Hernández Hospital, Mirley Avila cares for her father Miguel Avila inside the COVID-19 wing in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on a day when there weren't enough nurses so they let her in to feed him, change his sheets and undergarments. Venezuelans are likely to continue suffering the effect of the virus even as vaccine rollouts begin elsewhere in Latin America, with the only possible help coming from the Sputnik V vaccine provided by Venezuela's staunch ally Russia. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo/File)





Children play with bubbles as people, some wearing face masks against the spread of the Covid-19, enjoy Christmas celebrations at a square in Caracas, on December 21, 2020. Venezuela abandoned its rigid controls to stop the spread of covid-19 for Christmas, and relaxed its confinement, but the measures anticipate a strong surge in contagions, according experts. (Photo by Cristian Hernandez/AFP Photo)





A person plays the double bass ahead of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's delivery of his annual state of the nation speech during a special session of the National Constituent Assembly, in Caracas, Venezuela on January 12, 2021. (Photo by Manaure Quintero/Reuters)





In this January 6, 2021 file photo, residents walk in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Although the country appears to have been spared the worst, Venezuela risks falling behind the world in vaccinating health workers and the most-vulnerable populations. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo/File)





Children play a game of one on one on a public basketball court in the San Agustin neighborhood on Christmas Day in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, December 25, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





In this January 14, 2021 file photo, residents, some reflected in a mirror, left, stand in their building's common area as they wait to get free, rapid COVID-19 tests during a volunteer testing campaign amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in the El Paraiso neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela. The government of President Nicolás Maduro and the U.S.-backed opposition are accusing each other of playing politics with proposals to finance United Nations-supplied vaccines. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo/File)





A man plays music during New Year's Eve celebrations at the 23 de Enero neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, late Thursday, December 31, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





In this December 8, 2020 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro playfully sprays a journalist with disinfectant as he exits a press conference at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Attorneys for the cash-strapped government blame the impact of U.S. sanctions for its inability to make an initial $18 million down payment to the United Nations for doses of the U.N.-supplied vaccines, whose deadline has already passed. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo/File)





A girl plays with soap bubbles with her sister at the Catia neighborhood on Christmas Day in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, December 25, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Soldiers patrol on a military vehicle during elections to choose members of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, December 6, 2020. The vote, championed by President Nicolas Maduro is rejected as fraud by the nation's most influential opposition politicians. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A soldier guards a voting poll at a school that has the eyes of the late President Hugo Chavez painted on a wall during elections to choose members of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, December 6, 2020. The vote, championed by President Nicolas Maduro, is rejected as fraud by the nation's most influential opposition politicians. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Children play with light sparklers during New Year's Eve at the 23 de Enero neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, late Thursday, December 31, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)