Venezuela has paid $64 million, half of the required amount, for doses it is set to receive through the United Nation’s COVAX program, Vice President of the Maduro regime Delcy Rodriguez announced Saturday on state television. “You know that the COVAX mechanism requires an advance—Venezuela has even doubled the required advance,” said Rodriguez, adding that the government had deposited “59.2 million Swiss francs in the accounts of GAVI,” a co-leader of the COVAX program that seeks to improve low-income countries’ access to vaccines. Rodriguez did not specify what funds the Maduro regime used to pay for the vaccines. In recent months, the country’s internationally recognized leaders in the opposition and various civil organizations have been pushing the regime to purchase more vaccines via COVAX. However, the regime delayed any purchase even after being accepted into the COVAX program last year, saying that the necessary funds were frozen in the United …