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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela's territory covers around 916,445 square kilometres (353,841 sq mi) with an estimated population of 29,105,632. Venezuela is considered a state with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
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New York Times
March 30, 2018
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good evening. Here's the latest. Photo. Credit Yuri Kadobnov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. 1. The clash between Russia and the West is intensifying. Russia will expel 150 diplomats, including 60 Americans, in retaliation for Western ...
The Local Switzerland
March 30, 2018
"We are appalled at the horrific deaths of at least 68 people in Venezuela after a fire swept through a police station jail," the UN human rights office said in a statement. Wednesday's fire in Valencia, in Carabobo State, was thought to have been started deliberately during an attempted jailbreak. It marks one ...
Axios
March 30, 2018
Two of the people who died were "women who were visiting overnight." Per ABC, it reflects a larger issue in Venezuela of overcrowding in jails, and scarce resources for the prisoners. Victims' families will be receiving "comprehensive social assistance" from the local government, such as "funeral services and psychological ...
Manhattan Mercury
March 30, 2018
A woman is overcome by tear gas that was used to disperse the relatives of prisoners who were waiting to hear news about their family members imprisoned at a police station where a riot broke out, in Valencia, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 28, 2018. In a state police station housing more than one ...
BBC News
March 30, 2018
A Colombian church has donated 250,000 wafers to Venezuela's Catholic Church, which has struggled to buy its own because a shortage of flour. The diocese of the city of Cucuta, which is on the border between the two countries, donated the wafers ahead of Easter celebrations. The wafer is used to celebrate Holy ...
Cato Institute (blog)
March 29, 2018
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. Crude exports earn the country 95 per cent of its foreign exchange. That figure used to be lower, but relentless nationalization and the government's insistence on controlling prices and exchange rates have made other exports unviable. Not that productive ...
CNBC
March 28, 2018
American Airlines is adding flights from Florida to Venezuela at the end of the year, an addition that contrasts with moves made by several international airlines that have halted or reduced service due to economic and political turmoil in the country. The world's largest airline will offer thrice-weekly service ...
Miami Herald
March 27, 2018
In 2016, after a massive, decades-long vaccination campaign, the World Health Organization declared Latin America free of measles — the highly contagious virus that curses the young and can cause pneumonia, encephalitis and even death. But less than two years later, a virulent outbreak in Venezuela, ...
Business Insider
March 16, 2018
Protracted political, social, and economic crises in Venezuela have sparked a mass movement of people. Venezuelans have fled throughout the region and around the world, as far afield as Chile, Spain, and various points in between. But Colombia, which shares a 1,400-mile border with Venezuela, has become a focal ...
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
March 16, 2018
Font size: -+. CARACAS – Gold held by Venezuela's central bank fell 14% in value in 2017 compared with the previous year, according to the bank's financial statement. ... The value of Venezuela's monetary gold stood at $6.63-billion as of December 2017, according to the most recent official information.
Venezuelanalysis.com
March 16, 2018
According to Venezuela's Communications Ministry, Rodriguez Torres was “summoned by the justice [system] for actions again the public peace and tranquillity, as well as for plots and conspiracy which had as their malicious intention to threaten the monolithic unity of our National Bolivarian Armed Forces.
The Economist
March 16, 2018
IT “WILL be an instrument for Venezuela's economic stability and financial independence”, promises a white paper published by the country's government last month. Venezuela, the issuer of the world's least stable currency, proposes to issue its most trustworthy in the form of the petro, a “sovereign crypto ...
The Philadelphia Tribune
March 16, 2018
Venezuelan citizens arrive to La Parada neighborhood of Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela. Aside from providing health care, border cities are also coping with an array of public safety issues, like a rise in prostitution and groups of men, women and children sleeping on the streets.
MarketWatch
March 16, 2018
Venezuela's crude-oil output is collapsing in the wake of the nation's economic crisis, making the country the biggest wild card in OPEC's effort to balance global supply and demand, the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a monthly report. Within the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ...
The Merkle
March 8, 2018
Venezuela's freshly-created cryptocurrency is still in the hot seat. With the country's parliament declaring this currency illegal yet again, the future of the Petro is in question. Even so, it seems the Petro will be auctioned off to private companies through the Dicom foreign exchange platform over the next few ...
ABC News
March 8, 2018
In this Feb. 22, 2018 photo, Venezuelan Grecia Sabala cries as she talks about her medical condition, after going through the border checkpoint into Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela. Sabala crossed the border to get treatment for cervical cancer, at a specialized clinic in Cucuta. Each day ...
Jamaica Observer
March 8, 2018
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Florida lawmakers on Thursday passed a law prohibiting the US state from investing in companies that have business ties with the Venezuelan government. Citing the socialist government's "use of extreme violence and political persecution," the law will now appear before ...
Pacific Standard
March 8, 2018
The border between Colombia and Venezuela stretches over hundreds of miles through jungle territory controlled by a myriad of armed groups who oversee the hundreds of informal pathways for smuggling Colombian drugs and Venezuelan contraband as well as people. Experts doubt Colombia could ...
Miami Herald
March 8, 2018
Caracas, Venezuela, was the most dangerous capital city in the world in 2017, according to a new study that underscores how Latin America remains one of the bloodiest swaths of the planet. According to Mexico's Citizens Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, 43 of the world's 50 most violent ...
ABC News
March 8, 2018
FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2006 file photo, a Lukoil gas station is seen in Philadelphia. A lawsuit has been filed in Florida on Thursday, March 8, 2018, against Glencore, Lukoil and other international energy firms for their alleged role funneling bribes to corrupt Venezuelan officials in exchange for rigged oil ...
The Hill
March 7, 2018
Let's face it. When my native country of Venezuela is mentioned in the news, it usually isn't good. It's usually talk of out of control inflation, inadequate access to affordable health care and a homicide rate that causes paralysis. Without a doubt, security is one of the most pressing topics in regard to ...
Petroleum Economist
March 2, 2018
If anyone should be cheering the oil price rally it's Venezuela. The country was an early agitator for the Opec deal that has finally helped deliver higher prices, and badly needed a price recovery to aid its crisis-stricken economy. But with oil output in freefall, operations paralysed by a military power grab at ...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
The vote has also been rejected by election observers and international bodies, as well as the United States and many of Venezuela's neighbors. Mr. Maduro was recently disinvited from the Summit of the Americas meeting of regional leaders by the host country, Peru, which said the election was taking ...
CNNMoney
March 2, 2018
Corruption, mismanagement and price freezes have caused Venezuela's economy to collapse. To try to appease voters, Maduro has raised the minimum wage several times in the past few years. Critics say the hikes amount to printing money and only exacerbate Venezuela's hyperinflation.
EL PAÍS in English
February 28, 2018
Animals in a Venezuelan zoo are feeling the effects of the country's deepening food crisis. At the Zulia animal park in the city of San Francisco, a number of animals are suffering from severe malnutrition, including two pumas who have lost so much weight their bones are clearly visible sticking through their ...
Chicago Daily Herald
February 22, 2018
A bilingual nurse with roots in Venezuela is Nurse of the Year at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, where his father and older brother once worked. Ben Castells, 31, works in the catheterization lab with a team of so-called "heart plumbers" who help heart attack patients with artery blockages. Castells' ...
Miami Herald (blog)
February 22, 2018
Top Latin American officials tell me that Maduro may want to use the occasion to stage a big political show just a week before Venezuela's April 22 presidential elections, which have been denounced by the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and other key countries as a sham. Maduro has banned ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 22, 2018
Venezuela Evangelical Candidate Pushes Christian Values in Midst of Crisis ... Venezuelan evangelical pastor and presidential pre-candidate Javier Bertucci speaks during an interview with Reuters in Caracas, Venezuela ... He has no known political experience and little name recognition in Venezuela.
BBC News
February 22, 2018
Mr Maduro said he wanted to add legislative, state and municipal votes to provide "democratic renewal". Opposition parties say the presidential election will be "fraudulent and illegitimate". Venezuela is going through a protracted political and economic crisis. It has suffered for years from high inflation and ...
Fortune
February 22, 2018
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) delivers a speach next to Vice-President Tarek El Aissami (L) next to Venezuela's Minister of Science, Technology and University Education Hugbel Roa (R) during a press conference to launch to the market a new oil-backed cryptocurrency called "Petro", at the ...
NPR
February 21, 2018
Venezuela's downward economic spiral has led to widespread food shortages, hyperinflation and now mass migration. Many Venezuelans are opting for the easiest escape route — by crossing the land border into Colombia. There were more than half a million Venezuelans in Colombia as of December, ...
Aljazeera.com
February 21, 2018
Tillerson's comments came six months after US President Donald Trump threatened military action in Venezuela. The Trump administration's warmongering and threats have been accompanied by sustained bias in media reporting on the Venezuelan crisis. While there have been deep prejudice and ...
Los Angeles Times
February 21, 2018
"Petro will be an instrument for Venezuela's economic stability and financial independence, coupled with an ambitious and global vision for the creation of a freer, more balanced and fairer international financial system," the government said in a 22-page white paper, translated into English, outlining its ...
Business Insider
February 17, 2018
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's hardline opposition party Popular Will, whose leader Leopoldo Lopez would be a leading presidential contender if he were not under house arrest, announced on Friday it would boycott April's presidential vote, calling it a "fraud." Venezuela's opposition coalition has ...
The Costa Rica News
February 17, 2018
Current Venezuela's crisis has become a major concern for most Latin American countries, due to the serious socio-economic deterioration of its population and the regime's crackdown against democracy and human rights. Except for Cuba, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, ideological allies of the Government of ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 16, 2018
The Simon Bolivar is the showcase ensemble for El Sistema, Venezuela's world-famous network of youth orchestras. The program, celebrating its 43rd year, claims to currently connect 900,000 Venezuelan children to music, many of them from modest upbringings like Payare, the son of a schoolteacher ...
BBC News
February 15, 2018
Inmates at Tocuyito prison in the Venezuelan state of Carabobo have taken four other prisoners and dozens of guards hostage in a jail riot. Photos on social media show the four prisoners kneeling with their arms held up while other inmates appear to be threatening them. Three of the four men targeted are ...
New York Times
February 15, 2018
Scour the Web and you'll find a handful of reports of anti-Maduro protests or teach-ins at universities in recent years, usually organized by Venezuelans living in the U.S. And most politically informed people are more-or-less aware of Venezuela's political and economic disorders. No doubt they don't like ...
News & Observer
February 13, 2018
U.S. prosecutors believe Venezuela's former oil czar received bribes as part of a major graft scheme that allegedly took place in the OPEC nation's oil industry, an American official familiar with the probe said. Rafael Ramirez, who was one of Venezuela's most powerful officials until he quit as the country's ...
CNNMoney
February 13, 2018
The staggering decline is another sign of Venezuela's economic and political crisis. The country is heading toward a presidential election in April that international critics are already labeling fraudulent. Venezuela has more crude oil than any other country in the world and it heavily depends on the ...
Miami Herald
February 13, 2018
“In Colombia, they are planning to revive eras that had ended in human history, like military bombing, a military invasion or the occupation, through blood and gunfire, of a peaceful country like Venezuela,” said Venezuela's chief prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, according to the state-run AVN news agency.
Eyewitness News
February 12, 2018
GUASIPATI, Venezuela – Soldiers clashed with illegal miners in southern Venezuela on the weekend, killing 18 people in a region notorious for violence and gang rivalries, a lawmaker and local media said. Bolivar state Governor Justo Noguera said a military unit had fought off an attack, but gave no more ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 8, 2018
BOA VISTA, Brazil (Reuters) - The Brazilian government will deploy more troops on its border with Venezuela and start relocating tens of thousands of Venezuelan ... His visit to Roraima state came as Colombia tightened border controls with Venezuela and said it will give aid to hundreds of thousands of ...
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
February 8, 2018
The turmoil in Venezuela was one of several matters discussed during the talks. Mr. Holness informed that both Jamaica and the US agreed that the Government of Venezuela “must act in the best interest of its people and that it should ensure that the presidential elections are free, fair and credible in the ...
Christian Science Monitor
February 8, 2018
February 8, 2018 —Of all the refugee crises in the world, from those in Syria to Myanmar to Libya, the one least recognized as a crisis is Venezuela's. That perception changed in recent days, however, after a tour of Latin America by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The massive influx of ...
The Detroit News
February 8, 2018
On Jan. 24, former major league baseball player Marcos Carvajal died of pneumonia. He was only 33. The common respiratory infection should not have killed him. But Carvajal was in Venezuela, a country where more than three-quarters of all public hospitals lack basic medicines, and common ailments ...
BBC News
February 8, 2018
Venezuelan opposition parties are debating whether to take part in presidential polls set for 22 April. Venezuela's electoral authorities announced the date on Wednesday just hours after talks between the government and the opposition broke up without agreement. The elections were originally scheduled ...
CNN
February 8, 2018
The rights group has said Venezuela "systematically used brutal treatment, including torture, against anti-government protesters and political opponents." In August, the United Nations' human rights office accused Venezuelan security forces of using excessive force and arbitrarily detaining thousands of ...
CNBC
February 7, 2018
"The clear and present danger to watch is Venezuela, which arguably has progressed past the risk stage given that production is in freefall," Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, said in a research note Wednesday. The oil-dependent state is struggling to cope with ...
The Sun
February 6, 2018
The young boy killed with a machete is believed to be the victim of one of Venezuela's "megabandas", born out of the overcrowded, unregulated prison system. One of the most violent prison systems in the world, with almost 6,500 murders committed in custody between 1999 and 2014, the jails ballooned ...
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