Hundreds of public sector workers including teachers, nurses and retired police officers took to the streets in Venezuela on Monday to demand better salaries and pensions at a time when the government of President Nicolas Maduro faces growing inflation.
Workers in Venezuela's education and health sectors have held three peaceful demonstrations in a dozen cities so far this year to demand more money.
In Maracaibo, the capital of the once-powerful oil-rich Zulia state in northwestern Venezuela, protesters marched to the governor's office. "We're going to have to close the police hospital because there isn't even one bandage. We policemen from Zulia are forgotten, we don't have shoes or uniforms," Gonzalez added.
Montiel must clean patios and collect trash because "when my miserable pension runs out, I am still hungry," he said.
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