Venezuela’s Maduro increases minimum pay ahead of May Day protests

‘Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has increased the country’s minimum wage by 60 percent and given away hundreds of homes as tensions rise in the country.
“We’re here to take care of the workers, those who are most humble, and not the privileges of the oligarchs,” said Maduro during his weekly television program on Sunday.
The pay hike is the country’s third this year and the 15th since Maduro became president following the death of his predecessor Hugo Chavez in 2013.
Officials in several states also presented people with the keys to new apartments, some of which were built via Chinese funding. The move brings the total number of public housing units constructed under a program initiated by Chavez to 1.6 million.’
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