Venezuela senior citizens block streets demanding pension checks
Perched on plastic lawn chairs and leaning on canes, scores of retirees protested Wednesday, July 18, to demand payment of their retirement benefits in crisis-hit Venezuela.
About 200 senior citizens blocked traffic on Urdaneta Avenue, a stone’s throw from the presidential palace.
“They are not paying people’s whole pension. We are just getting two million” bolivars, worth 60 US cents at black market rates,” said Basilio Octo, 68.
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