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El bolívar perdió un 45% de su valor frente al dólar en 2026 y los jubilados reclamaron aumentos por la falta de necesidades básicas
El bolívar venezolano acumuló una depreciación del 45% frente al dólar estadounidense en lo que va de 2026, según datos oficiales. El viernes, última jornada hábil de mayo, la cotización del dólar alcanzó los 549,37 bolívares en el mercado oficial, de acuerdo con el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV). El valor de la divisa norteamericana, principal referencia para la fijación de precios en el país, subió un 82,2% desde los 301,37 bolívares registrados a comienzos de enero.
Durante mayo, el dólar aumentó un 12,2%, pasando de 489,55 a 549,37 bolívares, lo que implicó una devaluación del 10,8% de la moneda venezolana en ese lapso. En 2025, el bolívar perdió un 82% de su valor frente al dólar, que pasó de 52 a 298,14 bolívares en el mercado oficial.
Especialistas señalan que la escalada del dólar provoca un encarecimiento de bienes y servicios, así como una pérdida significativa del poder adquisitivo de los salarios en bolívares, que afectan principalmente a los trabajadores públicos y también al sector privado. Entre enero y abril, la inflación acumulada en el país alcanzó el 90%, según cifras del BCV.
El salario mínimo permanece congelado en 130 bolívares desde 2022, equivalentes hoy a unos 23 centavos de dólar a la tasa oficial, monto que también perciben los pensionados.
La depreciación constante del bolívar llevó al Gobierno chavista a otorgar bonificaciones adicionales en dólares. El 30 de abril, la presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, anunció un aumento de los bonos a 240 dólares para trabajadores y 70 dólares para pensionados. Esta medida generó malestar en sindicatos, ya que los bonos no se incorporan al cálculo de beneficios laborales como vacaciones y prestaciones sociales.
Delcy Rodríguez informó el viernes que más de 365.000 adultos mayores se encuentran en situación de vulnerabilidad en el país caribeño. “Más de 5.000 brigadas están desplegadas para brindar atención integral a los que la necesiten”, precisó
“Nosotros estamos desplegados para buscar a los pensionados, pensionadas, abuelas, abuelos, que estén en situación de mayor vulnerabilidad. Ya hemos encontrado a más de 365.000”, afirmó la presidenta encargada en un mensaje difundido a través de Telegram.
El anuncio coincidió con la celebración del Día del Adulto Mayor en Venezuela, jornada en la que más de un centenar de jubilados y pensionados protestaron ante el Ministerio de Educación y el Instituto Venezolano de los Seguros Sociales (IVSS), en Caracas, para exigir ingresos que les permitan cubrir sus necesidades básicas, como la compra de medicinas y alimentos.
Cabe recordar que el pasado 29 de abril, los jubilados y pensionados también se manifestaron ante Educación y el IVSS, en el centro de la capital venezolana, para exigir ingresos que les permitan cubrir sus necesidades básicas.
Carlos Gallego, de 65 años, denunció su difícil situación a la agencia EFE: “La pensión está en 130 bolívares, que significan 0,23 dólares. Eso cobramos al mes. Entonces para nosotros comernos un kilo de carne tenemos que reunirnos entre 50 (personas) y comernos un pedacito, esa es la precariedad”.
Y agregó: “El pasaje (de autobús) está en 100 bolívares y la pensión en 130, nos alcanza para ir al banco y nos quedan 30 bolívares y nos tendríamos que devolver a pie. Esa es la realidad del pensionado en Venezuela”.
Durante la protesta, la jubilada Carmen Laya declaró: “Cada vez que salimos a la calle la respuesta del Gobierno es la represión. Hoy queremos demostrarle a este régimen que los adultos mayores tenemos la fuerza para seguir en la calle”.
(Con información de EFE)
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Authorities are responding after two passenger trains crashed into each other Friday near Bedford, England, killing at least one person and injuring nearly 90 others.
The East of England Ambulance Service said it was called to a collision involving two trains at Elstow, near Bedford, at about 5:15 p.m. local time and quickly declared a «major incident.»
One person died at the scene, 11 people suffered very serious injuries, 22 were seriously injured and 56 people had minor injuries, officials said.
Bedford is roughly 60 miles north of London.
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Two passenger trains collided Friday in the United Kingdom. (Fox News)
All the patients with the most serious injuries have been taken from the scene to hospital.
The ambulance service said it sent numerous resources to the scene, including more than 20 ambulances, specialist hazardous area response teams and six air ambulances.
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Emergency crews were pictured working near the scene. (Fox News)
«Our thoughts are with everyone affected, and we thank all emergency service colleagues for their swift response,» the ambulance service wrote in a statement.
The Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed its crews were also responding.
«Please avoid the area,» fire officials wrote in a statement on X.
Sources told The Telegraph the train driver was on the phone with maintenance staff discussing a safety issue at the time of the crash.
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Double endorsement drama: Trump backs second candidate in red state’s GOP gubernatorial runoff
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President Donald Trump is making an 11th-hour endorsement in the final stretch ahead of Tuesday’s high-profile Republican gubernatorial runoff in solidly red South Carolina, saying he «can’t hurt one of them by only Endorsing the other.»
Trump on Friday took to Truth Social to say that he was supporting longtime South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in the battle for the GOP nomination in the race to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Henry McMaster.
«I can’t hurt one of them by only Endorsing the other, so, therefore, I am going to Endorse, for Governor of South Carolina, both Pam Evette and Alan Wilson!» Trump wrote, adding: «With either one you can’t go wrong.»
The endorsement of Wilson appears to be a move by Trump to hedge his bets, because Trump is already backing Evette, who is also supported by McMaster, a longtime top ally of the president.
The South Carolina runoff had been viewed as the latest test of Trump’s immense grip over the GOP and the power of his endorsements in Republican nominating contests.
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced his candidacy for governor on Monday, June 23, 2025, accompanied by his family. (Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
And his decision to back both Evette and Wilson isn’t the first time he’s made dual endorsements in the same Republican race. He’s already backing both Gina Swoboda and Jay Feely in next month’s Republican primary in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District.
Most famously, Trump endorsed «ERIC» in the 2022 GOP Senate primary in Missouri, where the two major candidates were Eric Schmitt and Eric Greitens. Both candidates claimed the endorsement, with Schmitt ultimately winning the nomination.
In South Carolina, Trump endorsed Evette late last month, a week and a half before the gubernatorial primary.
Evette finished on top of a crowded field of contenders in the primary election, with Wilson second. The field also included Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman, and multimillionaire businessman Rom Reddy. Since no candidate won a majority of the vote, as the top two finishers, Evette and Wilson advanced to the June 23 runoff.
Mace and Norman endorsed Wilson after failing to advance to the runoff. And Wilson was also backed a week ago by Sen. Ted Cruz, the conservative firebrand from Texas.
The runoff between Evette and Wilson has become combustible, and in Tuesday’s final debate both candidates launched personal attacks and accused each other of lying and misrepresenting their records.
Wilson has worked to contrast his tenure as attorney general with what he’s argued is Evette’s largely ceremonial role as lieutenant governor. And he has spotlighted his experience as a combat veteran, prosecutor, and the state’s top law enforcement official.
Evette has showcased herself as an outsider and a Trump-endorsed businesswoman, while casting Wilson as a career politician.
It’s been 28 years since a Democrat won a gubernatorial election in South Carolina, and the winner of the GOP runoff will be considered the clear favorite in the general election against Democratic nominee Jermaine Johnson, a state representative.
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette announces her bid for the Republican nomination for governor at The Smokestack at Judson Mill in South Carolina on July 14, 2025. (Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service/Getty Images)
The brute force of the president’s endorsement power has been on display in GOP primaries over the past two months, with his candidates ousting incumbents he targeted in showdowns in Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas that grabbed plenty of national attention.
But Trump’s endorsement streak in statewide and congressional Republican primaries was snapped three weeks ago when his last minute endorsement of Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra of Iowa in the race to succeed retiring GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds wasn’t enough to propel the three-term congressman to victory.
Feenstra was narrowly edged by Zach Lahn, a businessman, farmer and former political strategist who was backed by the political wings of MAHA — the acronym for the Make America Healthy Again movement aligned with Trump Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and Turning Point USA, the powerful conservative organization co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Zach Lahn raises his fist in celebration after defeating his primary opponent in Iowa’s GOP gubernatorial race on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (Zach Lahn for Governor via Facebook)
Trump rebounded a week later, as Evette finished first in the GOP gubernatorial primary and longtime Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina won a majority of the vote in the Republican Senate primary, and avoided a runoff.
Graham, who was endorsed by Trump, was facing primary challenges from five candidates, including conservative businessman Mark Lynch, who took aim at the senator over his support for the war in Iran. Lynch was backed by some MAGA leaders who have been critical of the president.
And a couple of days ago, Trump-backed candidates won two of the three top races in Georgia and Alabama, with the one setback coming against a billionaire businessman who shelled out over $100 million of his own money to boost his campaign.
Rep. Barry Moore, a House Freedom Caucus member and longtime Trump supporter who was endorsed by the president, comfortably defeated rival Jared Hudson, a former Navy SEAL sniper who was supported by some top names on the right, in solidly red Alabama’s GOP Senate runoff.
In battleground Georgia’s Republican Senate runoff, an 11th hour endorsement by Trump this past weekend helped boost Rep. Mike Collins, a MAGA champion, to victory over former college football coach Derek Dooley, who was backed by popular conservative Gov. Brian Kemp.
Collins will face Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in the general election in a race that’s among a handful that will likely decide if the GOP holds its slim majority in the chamber in the midterms.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson speaks to supporters at a campaign stop in Alpharetta, Ga., on June 14, 2026. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Jones regularly showcased his Trump endorsement, but Jackson, who launched his bid in February long after the president had endorsed Jones, repeatedly said that Trump had inspired him to run.
But in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial runoff, the candidate Trump backed, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who was also endorsed by Kemp this past weekend, was defeated by Rick Jackson, who ran as an outsider.
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A Trump political operative, pointing to Tuesday’s loss by Trump-backed Jones, noted that «Rick Jackson set a record for spending in a statewide Republican primary. He spent Tom Steyer level money in a state a fraction of the size of California. That’s going to have an impact.»
And the operative, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, also emphasized that «Rick bearhugged Trump. All of his ads and material was about how he’s going to be Trump’s favorite governor. So the race was not really a referendum on Trump.»
Fox News’ Luke Trevisan contributed to this report
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