2026-01-06
26 分钟Amid global attention, what's life like in Venezuela?
In the last two days, you were not seeing anyone, not even one car on the street.
There is supply at a higher price and making a long line.
It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
This is Andrew Peach.
On the way we'll get a sense of prices and the jobs market in Venezuela as well as the country's oil resources.
Also today of 2025 was the year of tariffs.
We'll look at what 2026 has in store and what's driving the surging market in beauty products from South Korea.
First, Nicolás Maduro says he's still the president of Venezuela.
He pleaded not guilty to four charges of drug trafficking and terrorism in court in New York.
He told the court he'd been kidnapped in that U.S.
operation in Caracas over the weekend.
Meanwhile, in Venezuela itself,
Delcey Rodriguez has been sworn in as interim leader in a ceremony designed to give the impression of business as usual.
But with all this upheaval, how's the daily life of Venezuelans being affected?
Well, I've been talking to three of them.
Wilma, who's based in Caracas, Angela, who's in Ghana City, and Pedro.
who's in the city of Maracaybo.
Now we're not using my guests' real names because of their fears of any kind of backlash from the authorities who are out on the streets in force,
we're told.