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teleSUR English
January 27, 2018
President Nicolas Maduro addresses youths. Photo: Nicolas Maduro. Maduro admitted Venezuela is currently engaged in a "crucial battle to secure its future. We must guarantee better quality in education." Maduro also announced plans to establish cryptocurrency farms in high schools, universities andÃÂ ...
Business Insider
January 24, 2018
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro looked sure to stand for re-election in a presidential vote due by the end of April where the ruling Socialists hope to trump a squabbling opposition despite an economic crisis and foreign sanctions. The unpopular leader, whom foes decry as aÃÂ ...
The Advertiser
January 23, 2018
The unrest was sparked by shortages of pork for traditional holiday meals, despite socialist President Nicolas Maduro's promise of subsidised meat to alleviate shortages. The EU sanctions are aimed at raising pressure on President Maduro's government. Maduro is accused of crushing opposition partiesÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
January 22, 2018
Cabello is believed to have the ear of President Nicolas Maduro and to be respected by the military. World leaders have condemned Maduro for shredding democracy in Venezuela. Severe shortages of food and medicine have gotten worse and hyperinflation has set in as the government slips further intoÃÂ ...
CNBC
January 22, 2018
Venezuela — rife with double-digit inflation, civil strife and signs of imminent economic collapse everywhere — has seen the future, and it's in cryptocurrency. Now, it just has to convince elements of its own citizenry, as well as the rest of the world. Earlier this month, Venezuelan President Nicolas MaduroÃÂ ...
WPLG Local 10
January 17, 2018
President Nicolas Maduro accused Bishops Antonio Lopez Castillo, left, and Victor Hugo Basabe, right, of hate crimes Monday night. AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File 2016 and photos courtesy of Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela.
CNN
January 16, 2018
But, in a Monday speech to lawmakers, President Nicolas Maduro described an operation to hunt down the "terrorist group that attacked the Supreme Court." Maduro said the targeted group was preparing a car bomb attack against the embassy of an unnamed country. As a result of the operation, part of theÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
January 16, 2018
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is giving pregnant women a little extra cash. Emphasis on "a little." Maduro announced during his annual address to the nation that pregnant women would receive a payment of 700,000 bolivars a month. It sounds like a lot, but Venezuela's runaway inflation meansÃÂ ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
January 12, 2018
Facing an explosive crisis, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is considering allowing international food donations to enter his country, but wants the opposition to recognize the legitimacy of the controversial National Constituent Assembly, or NCA. Maduro also wants to control the distribution of theÃÂ ...
Moneycontrol.com
January 6, 2018
President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday that Venezuela would issue 100 million units of its new oil-backed cryptocurrency in coming days, although it is unclear whether any investors will want to purchase the "petro" at a time when the OPEC member is going through a deep economic crisis and its leftistÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 30, 2017
Despite this generalized regional turbulence, Venezuela and its President, Nicolas Maduro, have received the brunt of scrutiny from media and political quarters of all stripes. The first half of the year looked poised to be the tipping point, after months of deadly, opposition-led protests calling for Maduro'sÃÂ ...
Eyewitness News
December 24, 2017
Lambasted by critics at home and abroad for holding around 270 activists in prison, President Nicolas Maduro's administration said on Saturday it was releasing 80 of them with alternative sentences like community service. Thirteen were paraded in front of television cameras at a meeting with a seniorÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 21, 2017
... which is suffering widespread shortages of basic goods. "The shortages are really beginning to bite in the most dramatic fashion," he added. "If there's no means of changing the government within the democratic system, then clearly he [President Nicolas Maduro] is going to control the democratic systemÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 13, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, extraordinary session in Istanbul, Turkey. Dec. 13, 2017. | Photo: Twitter / @LindaSobehAli. Previous; Next. Published 13 December 2017. 0. Comments. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share toÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
December 11, 2017
Venezuela's opposition has said it won't be bullied out of participating in future elections, a day after threats by President Nicolas Maduro. ... to take part in the mayoral vote, the last nationwide elections before the 2018 presidential race in which President Nicolas Maduro is expected to seek another term.
Aljazeera.com
December 10, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced that the country's main opposition parties will be banned from taking part in next year's presidential elections. The Latin American leader said the opposition parties that boycotted Sunday's municipal elections were no longer part of the politicalÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
The salary increase will include public workers, teachers, doctors, firefighters, police officers and military personnel, among others. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Sunday, just before the new year, a 40 percent increase in the minimum wage — as a protection for Venezuelans againstÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
As the successor to Lieutenant Colonel Lunatic, aka Hugo Chavez, you might think President Nicolas Maduro would present a more mentally balanced persona. Sadly for Venezuela, you would be wrong. In the last few months, Maduro has transformed from a bloviating kleptocrat to a rabbit king, to aÃÂ ...
Firstpost
December 26, 2017
Caracas: Miguel Castillo hurried up a narrow, dusty street in a poor neighbourhood in Venezuela's capital city carrying a boy who clung to him as if his life depended on it. Castillo, a member of the country's tattered Opposition movement, brought the 6-year-old named Tomas to a dining hall filled with nearlyÃÂ ...
Eyewitness News
December 25, 2017
Lambasted by critics at home and abroad for holding around 270 activists in prison, President Nicolas Maduro's administration said on Saturday it was releasing 80 of them with alternative sentences like community service. Thirteen were paraded in front of television cameras at a meeting with a seniorÃÂ ...
Eyewitness News
December 19, 2017
CARACAS - Venezuelan leftist President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that “terrorists” had broken into a National Guard unit over the weekend and stolen weapons, the latest sign of volatility in the oil-rich country convulsed by a profound economic crisis. Oscar Perez, a rogue Venezuelan police pilotÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
December 11, 2017
Venezuela's opposition has said it won't be bullied out of participating in future elections, a day after threats by President Nicolas Maduro. ... to take part in the mayoral vote, the last nationwide elections before the 2018 presidential race in which President Nicolas Maduro is expected to seek another term.
Aljazeera.com
December 10, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced that the country's main opposition parties will be banned from taking part in next year's presidential elections. The Latin American leader said the opposition parties that boycotted Sunday's municipal elections were no longer part of the politicalÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
November 29, 2017
Amid chants of "Maduro, Maduro" from the crowd at a rally in the central state of Aragua ahead of the December 10 municipal elections, the ...
Irish Times
November 29, 2017
Venezuela has ordered the removal of Rafael Ramirez, once a powerful oil minister and head of state oil company PDVSA, from his post as ...
teleSUR English
November 26, 2017
The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro has announced a new phase in the state oil company, PDVSA, to put an end to the corruption that ...
BBC News
November 26, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has named a general to head the state oil company, PDVSA, and the country's energy ministry.
The Japan Times
November 26, 2017
... Netherlands, Peru and the United States to press them to urge President Nicolas Maduro to distribute medicine for humanitarian purposes.
Prensa Latina
November 26, 2017
Caracas, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) President Nicolas Maduro has highlighted the life of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, at the ...
Prensa Latina
November 24, 2017
La Paz, Nov 23 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales today praised the battle being waged by his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas ...
Fortune
November 22, 2017
... President Nicolas Maduro's proposal to restructure $60 billion of debt. Maduro has said the country will keep servicing its obligations for now.
Eyewitness News
November 17, 2017
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose top political allies have been accused by Washington of dealing in illegal narcotics, ...
TIME
November 16, 2017
“Nicolas Maduro and his government should pay for these crimes against humanity just as they must also pay for the hunger, misery and ...
Channel NewsAsia
November 14, 2017
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attends his weekly radio and TV broadcast "Los Domingos con Maduro" (The Sundays with Maduro) in ...
CNBC
November 6, 2017
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro may be trying to shore up support for next year's presidential election with the announcement of a ...
ABC News
November 3, 2017
FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the Miraflores presidential ...
Toronto Star
October 15, 2017
The stakes are dampened by Maduro's insistence that all winners will be under the authority of his new Constituent Assembly, an all-powerful ...
Deutsche Welle
October 14, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro may well face a threat to his ... Nicolas Maduro — soon to be seen before the International Criminal ...
teleSUR English
October 7, 2017
The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he would provide further details in a news conference on Sunday. | Photo: @PresidencialVen.
NEWS.com.au
September 28, 2017
VENEZUELA has one of the highest crime rates in the world and is in the middle of a bloody and violent civil war but President Nicolas Maduro ...
Livemint
September 27, 2017
Nicolas Maduro's speech came after Donald Trump signed a decree adding a raft of top Venezuelan officials to a travel ban encompassing ...
NBCNews.com
September 19, 2017
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hit back by calling the U.S. president "the new Hitler" of international politics. He also accused Trump of ...
Deutsche Welle
September 15, 2017
Two days of exploratory talks between the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the political opposition have proved ...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
... which is suffering widespread shortages of basic goods. "The shortages are really beginning to bite in the most dramatic fashion," he added. "If there's no means of changing the government within the democratic system, then clearly he [President Nicolas Maduro] is going to control the democratic systemÃÂ ...
Pulse Nigeria
December 31, 1999
Venezuela slipped inexorably towards a formal debt default Friday, with analysts saying a credit event was all but inevitable for the sinking ...
Dealbreaker
December 31, 1999
For all the shit they get, it's not easy to be an investor in Venezuelan bonds. Beyond the obvious moral quandaries that must keep the ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
President Nicolas Maduro has defended Venezuela's recent gubernatorial results amid accusations of fraud and other voting irregularities from ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Tehran in ...
Globalnews.ca
September 23, 2017
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a meeting with ministers and pro government governors in Caracas, Venezuela Sept.
Deutsche Welle
September 15, 2017
Two days of exploratory talks between the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the political opposition have provedÃÂ ...
