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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 WesternÃâà...
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 oneÃâà...
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 psychologicalÃâà...
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 oneÃâà...
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 HolyÃâà...
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 productiveÃâà...
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 serviceÃâà...
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,Ãâà...
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 focalÃâà...
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 cryptoÃâà...
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 ExportingÃâà...
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 fewÃâà...
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 dayÃâà...
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 beforeÃâà...
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 couldÃâà...
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 violentÃâà...
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 oilÃâà...
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 toÃâà...
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 atÃâà...
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 takingÃâà...
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 theirÃâà...
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