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Online exchange blocked in Venezuela ahead of health bonuses

by Associated Press
| August 21, 2020 3:33 PM

MIAMI (AP) — A currency exchange website appeared Friday to have been blocked in Venezuela as the online platform prepared to launch a U.S.-backed plan to provide assistance to underpaid health workers battling the coronavirus in the South American country.

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