Seen through a translucent podium, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, and Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, right, arrive to give a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, November 5, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A handout photo made available by Miraflores press shows Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaking during a meeting with the military high command in Caracas, Venezuela, 23 October 2020. Maduro announced the creation of a military council that will seek the independence of the country in terms of its weapons system with the help of “sister” nations, among which he mentioned China, Russia, Iran and Cuba. (Photo by Miraflores Handout/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Erika Cordero explains a homework assignment to her young charges in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, November 2, 2020. Cordero, 33, tutors small groups of neighborhood children in her mother's home. They cover everything from long division to reading, said Cordero, who sees too many children falling behind. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A young student arrives at a soup kitchen run by the Venezuelan charity, “Feed the Solidarity”, in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, November 2, 2020. The pandemic has left millions of students falling behind in the world's most unequal region, a UNICEF study finds, released on Monday, Nov. 9. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Children look at books donated by the Venezuelan charity, "Feed the Solidarity", at a home where children are tutored by volunteers, in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, November 3, 2020. The U.N. children's agency UNICEF says that the COVID-19 has deprived 97% of children in Latin America and the Caribbean of their normal schooling over seven months since the continent's first COVID-19 cases were discovered. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Rosa Carrera tells children a story during an event run by the Venezuelan charity, “Feed the Solidarity”, in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, November 3, 2020. Pandemic lockdowns, teacher shortages and electricity outages are forcing many Venezuelan students to advance their education outside the traditional brick and mortar school setting. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Children play in a park in a residential complex in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, November 4, 2020. The economic hit to Latin America and the Caribbean countries amid the new cornavirus pandemic is expected to reduce school budgets across the region by 9 percent, marking a dramatic reversal to a steady rise in spending before the pandemic, researchers said. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Jenashly Matos walks back home after attending a tutorial class at a soup kitchen run by the Venezuelan charity, “Feed the Solidarity”, in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, November 2, 2020. “If I'm not learning, I feel like I'm nobody in life”, said the 9-year-old. “That's why I come here”. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Douglas Yriarte carries rental chairs for tourists on the La Ultima beach which was closed for months amid the COVID-19 pandemic in La Guaira, Venezuela, Friday, October 23, 2020. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Friends take photos of themselves on La Ultima beach which was reopened this week after it was closed for months amid the COVID-19 pandemic in La Guaira, Venezuela, Friday, October 23, 2020. Strict quarantine restrictions forced the closure of beaches across the country in March and reopened this week in hopes of revitalizing the battered economy. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A man utilizes a door as a makeshift raft as he transports a woman through the inundated streets of the Mata Redonda neighborhood of Maracay, Venezuela, Wednesday, October 21, 2020. Heavy rainfall in the central Venezuelan state of Aragua caused the Madre Vieja River to overflow flooding several neighborhoods. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A devotee of late Venezuelan Dr. José Gregorio Hernández holds up his picture and a rosary outside La Candelaria church where he is buried in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, October 26, 2020. The remains of the doctor popularly known as the “Saint of the Poor” were exhumed today in a private ceremony inside the church as part of a Vatican request for the beatification process of the first Venezuelan layperson. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Jorge Felix Moreno, who once made a living working children’s shows and birthday parties has had to reinvent himself due to severe COVID-19 restrictions, walks through the hotel lobby where he is renting a room, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, October 16, 2020. Moreno now rides Caracas’ public transportation system all day long performing magic tricks and clowning around for tips. But the 50-year-old clown also gives passengers sound advice on the need to protect oneself against the new coronavirus virus. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Angel Salamanca trains a rooster at the “Club Gallistico Caracas” cockfighting club in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, November 15, 2020. Cockfighting arenas and clubs have shut down since the start of the new coronavirus pandemic months ago, but owners have to keep incurring in the expense of upkeeping and training their birds in the hope that the fights might one day reopen. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





The El Guaire River is illuminated by a full moon in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, October 31, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic lockdown. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





People wearing masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 wait to vote in front of a mural of the eyes of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar during a voting rehearsal at a public school in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, October 25, 2020. Venezuela's electoral authority is testing the voting process in preparation for the Dec. 6 parliamentary elections. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Andres Burgos, a 55-year-old publicist, gives a package of arepas or corn flour patties to a man begging for money at a traffic light in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, October 20, 2020. Burgos hands out his homemade arepas from the seat of his bicycle to needy children, adults and the elderly. He calls it BiciArepazo, which translates roughly as Bike Arepas. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Children eat free arepas or corn flour patties, given to them by Andres Burgos, a 55-year-old publicist, in Macuto, Venezuela, Saturday October 24, 2020. Burgos, who is on a mission to feed the hungry, rode to the seaside city in Venezuela's La Guaira state, accompanied by other cyclists to distribute the arepas he made to needy children, adults and the elderly. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Parishioners stay in their cars during a drive-in Sunday Mass set up by Father Jonathan Gonzalez to circumvent the regulations that prevent concentrations in religious temples, imposed since March by the authorities to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, at the parking lot of the “Nuestra Señora de Coromoto” church in the El Paraiso neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, October 25, 2020. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)