In the chaos of Venezuela,a daughter fights for her fathers life.
This is NBC News correspondent Mariana Atencio on vacation with her father in early 2018.
Shortly after their vacation, Mariana rushed to her fathers side in Caracas, or Venezuela,when he suddenly became ill with the flu.
Over the next three weeks, she witnessed the health crisis in Venezuela first-hand as she scrambled to procure basic medicine not available in the country.
In her first trip back to Venezuela in over a year, and Mariana carried $5000 worth of medicine in her carry-on. Her father’s survival would depend on her family getting around the regime of President Nicolas Maduro,who has refused to allow humanitarian aid to enter the country — especially from the U.
S — despite the shortage of food, medicine and cash.
Read Mariana’s myth here.
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