Venezuela: Guaido accuses power of lying about vaccine shortage

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Friday accused the government of lying about the country's vaccine shortage and said it had

economic

affecting the country.

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"I will not tire of repeating it (...) in front of the official lie on the outsourcing of responsibilities: (the president) Nicolas Maduro is the only one responsible"

for the shortage of vaccines in Venezuela, declared Juan Guaido, recognized as interim president by part of the international community including the United States.

, launched Juan Guaido during a press conference in Caracas.

In an interview with AFP, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Wednesday that

, the authorities would have

specifying that the contract with Russia was paid in installments.

The vaccine shortage

said the opponent.

Juan Guaido, to whom Washington has entrusted the management of Venezuelan funds in the United States, assured to have

of the World Health Organization (WHO).

In mid-March, he announced that he had released $ 30 million in frozen funds abroad as part of the sanctions for the purchase of vaccines through this mechanism.

The country has launched its vaccination campaign with the Russian Sputnik V and Chinese Sinopharm vaccines.

To date, the country has received less than one million doses.

Venezuela, 30 million inhabitants, is facing a virulent second wave of the pandemic.

The country has recorded 170,000 cases, including more than 20,000 in March, for just under 1,700 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to official figures.

Juan Guaido, whose first public appearance after his recovery from Covid-19, stressed that the country was experiencing

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