A soccer fan pulls on a giant red flag as he. stands on a fence during a Copa Sudamericana first leg quarter-final soccer match between Venezuela's Deportivo Tachira and Ecuador's Independiente del Valle in San Cristobal, Venezuela, Tuesday, August 2, 2022. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Yasmin Silva weighs Colombian-grown tobacco leaves to roll into cigars in San Antonio, Venezuela, near the Colombian border which has been partially closed for years since Venezuela cut off diplomatic relations, Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Colombia’s incoming Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faria announced in late July that the two nations will restore diplomatic ties once Colombia’s new president is sworn-in on Aug. 7, and that the border will gradually reopen, which has Silva hoping that imports from Colombia will increase, and boost her current earnings of about $7 dollars a day. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Venezuelan students wait for their school bus in Cucuta, Colombia, at sunrise Monday, August 8, 2022, after crossing the border which Venezuela partially closed in 2015. A few days into their long break, teachers have been marching by the thousands around the country, threatening to strike when school resumes or possibly even to abandon their profession after the government paid them only a tiny fraction of their annual vacation bonus. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo/File)





Volunteer firefighters work to remove mud from a street after the Guaire River overflowed due to heavy rains caused flooding in the neighborhood of Petare in Caracas, Venezuela on August 10, 2022. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





Homeless Cesar Ramirez lies on a mattress under a bridge in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A nurse uses a megaphone during a protest by active and retired public workers demanding the government pay their full benefits and respect collective bargaining agreements, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, August 23, 2022. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Teachers, health workers, retirees and public employees march in protest against the government of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela on August 23, 2022. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





A woman sticks plastic bottle caps onto cement in a section of a 270-square-meter mural that Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares is making with the help of residents in a bid to make the mural bigger of the world in Guatire, state of Miranda. Venezuela, on August 21, 2022. (Photo by Pedro Rances Mattey/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





An artisanal fisherman returns from a day´s work at La Galera beach in the Juangriego neighborhood on Margarita Island, Venezuela, Monday, August 29, 2022. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Children play on a swing near the salt flat of Pampatar on Margarita Island, Venezuela, Tuesday, August 30, 2022. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Sacks containing illegal drugs and plastic barrels containing fuel, seized by the armed forces of Venezuela are displayed at a beachside campsite in the village of Tiraya, Venezuela, Monday, September 5, 2022. The armed forces of Venezuela announced what they characterized as the largest marijuana bust of the last 10 years after they intercepted a boat off the country's Caribbean coast over the weekend. (Photo by Regina Garcia Cano/AP Photo)





A man drives his motorbike on Bolivar Avenue in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, September 10, 2022. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A couple kisses as they dance at a DJ party in Caracas, Venezuela, early Saturday, September 10, 2022. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Runners covered in coloured powder dance after taking part in the five-kilometre Night Color Run at the Simon Bolivar Park in Caracas, on Septembre 17, 2022. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





People look at the black smoke from the massive fire at a fuel depot in an oil refining plant of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoategui state, Venezuela, on September 19, 2022. (Photo by Carlos Landaeta/AFP Photo)





An aerial view of La Araña distributor at the Francisco Fajardo highway shows normal traffic, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, September 24, 2022. La Araña distributor is one of the most important road infrastructures in the city of Caracas. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Homes cover a hill in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, September 24, 2022. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A man disguised as Liberator Simon Bolivar performs during a ceremony to officially reopen the land border between Venezuela and Colombia – closed since 2019 – at the Simon Bolivar International Bridge which connects San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela and Cucuta in Colombia, on September 26, 2022. Venezuela and Colombia reestablished formal ties on August 29, reopening their shared land border and resuming commercial flights. (Photo by Johnny Parra/AFP Photo)





A neighbor, right, comforts a woman crying in front of her damaged home by flooding in Las Tejerias, Venezuela, Sunday, October 9, 2022, after days of heavy rains caused the overflow of a river. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A man reunites with his dog, rescued by neighbors from the mud, after flooding caused by intense rains in Las Tejerias, Venezuela, Sunday, October 9, 2022, after (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)