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April 14, 2013 - Wins the presidential election by fewer than two percentage points over Henrique Capriles Radonski.

September 30, 2013 - Maduro announces on state-run VTV that he is expelling three US diplomats. He claims they were involved in a widespread power outage earlier in the month. "Get out of Venezuela," he says, listing several names. "Yankee go home. Enough abuses already."

February 12, 2014 - Student protests in Venezuela that started earlier in the month attract global attention when three people are killed. Major social and economic problems have fueled the protests, with some blaming Venezuela's government, led by President Nicolás Maduro, for those problems.

February 21, 2014 - Maduro calls for US President Barack Obama to "accept the challenge" of holding direct talks with Venezuela.

January 15, 2016 - Following the release of years of economic data, Maduro declares a state of "economic emergency."

May 13, 2016 - Maduro declares a "constitutional state of emergency," which expands on the "economic emergency" he declared in January.

October 30, 2016 - Maduro sits down to engage in talks with political opponents for the first time in two years, in order to find a compromise among Venezuelan political parties.

July 31, 2017 - US Treasury Department sanctions freeze Maduro's assets subject to US jurisdiction and bar US citizens from dealing with him. This comes a day after elections are held for a new lawmaking body in Venezuela. The department says the National Constituent Assembly "aspires illegitimately to usurp the constitutional role of the democratically elected National Assembly, rewrite the constitution, and impose an authoritarian regime on the people of Venezuela."

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Healthcare Crisis

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Vasquez is being treated in one of Venezuela's largest public hospitals, in Valencia, an industrial city about 150 kilometers (95 miles) from the capital, Caracas. Days later, he is still laid up in a humid room at the public hospital. A makeshift surgical drain, made from an empty gallon bottle, draws fluid from his lungs. All the supplies, from gauze to syringes, had to be purchased out of his pocket.

"I had to buy this needle," Vasquez says, pointing at the yellow casing secured to his right arm with transparent tape. "This cost me 1,000 Bolivares. The hydrogen peroxide was another 2,000 Bolivares -- there was nothing in this hospital."

Those two amounts add up to about 30% of the monthly minimum wage in Venezuela. And Vasquez has also lost his major source of income: the bicycle he used to make deliveries was stolen when he was shot.

His fears of being robbed continue inside the hospital, so he hides the money he needs for medicine under his blanket inside his underwear.

Falling oil prices led to deficits in Venezuela, which the government tackled by printing money. But that has now led to ballooning inflation, and even basics have become unaffordable for many.

Luis Hidalgo, who's been in a wheelchair with a leg in a cast after a car accident, says he's been awaiting further treatment on his leg for 40 days. He, too, had to buy his medical supplies, and he says they were stolen when he was heavily sedated.

"A few weeks ago I went into the operating room and, when I came out, not only had I not had the surgery but everything was gone."

Some in the hospital believe the medicines are being swiped from the facility to be sold on the black market, as government rationing of medications has made even basics, like pain relievers, hard to come by.

Yomaira Meza's daughter Winifer was scheduled to have a tumor removed from her neck this week, but surgery was canceled because of the lack of supplies.

When asked what they were going to do, all she answered was "keep waiting."

According to the Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela, the country is lacking roughly 80% of the basic medical supplies needed to treat its population.

Doctors attending to these patients are also without resources. A group of residents treating Vasquez and Meza said they don't even have paper to write prescriptions on and, up until recently, were working without any light in their lounge.

"We used to have operating rooms working 24 hours a day," said Mariangel Fonseca, a surgical resident. "This was an elite hospital."

This week, the opposition-controlled National Assembly officially declared Venezuela is suffering a national humanitarian health crisis.

During the three-hour debate, legislators said President Nicolas Maduro must present a plan to guarantee access to essential medical supplies and open the country's borders to international aid.

Maduro's government denies there is a crisis and says his administration has opened more than 2,000 urgent care facilities throughout the country. He also accused the opposition of plotting to privatize the country's national health care system.

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Venezuela health crisis: Shooting is just the first pain

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Vasquez is being treated in one of Venezuela's largest public hospitals, in Valencia, an industrial city about 150 kilometers (95 miles) from the capital, Caracas. Days later, he is still laid up in a humid room at the public hospital. A makeshift surgical drain, made from an empty gallon bottle, draws fluid from his lungs.

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Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez administration

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Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez administration

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-socialistic economic policies known as the Bolivian Revolution
-populist policies providing public services to improve economic,culture and social condition

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1. Economic sanctions by the United States.
2. New potential? China
3. Venezuela is oil-rich

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- largely as a result of depressed world oil prices
- the output of Venezuelan crude oil consisted of an increasingly high proportion of viscous petroleum, which was more costly to refine than the highly coveted sweet light crude
- declining industrial production and falling non-oil exports
- the government’s failure to adequately invest in the industrial sector and its ideologically driven nationalization of industries

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The history how Venezuela's sufferings unraveled

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The history how Venezuela's sufferings unraveled

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Hugo Chavez (1999-2013)

-he reigned into presidency after the 2nd military coup on former president; Carlos Andres Perez.
-died of cancer in 2013
-starting from his cancer surgeries, his people started to lose trust as there was an economic downfall, increase in poverty of the people and decline in government systems.
-he failed to practice populism (to speak for the poor)

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Hunger

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The Loss of Family

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1. The recent constitutional change - more power for Maduro
2. Hopeless situation for citizens - opposition being cruelly silenced
3. Plight of citizens becoming more concerning