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2023.01.21 04:20 GMT+8

Venezuela's teachers unable to survive on low salaries

Updated 2023.01.21 04:20 GMT+8
Mary Triny Mena

Venezuela’s teachers are the lowest paid in Latin America, making between ten and thirty U.S. dollars a month.  Unable to survive on that salary, teachers are now driving some of the largest protests seen in Venezuela in years, as they demand improvements to their pay conditions amid sky-high inflation.  

CGTN’s Mary Triny Mena spoke with teachers in Caracas to learn more.

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