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Colombia Reports
April 18, 2018
Venezuela said Wednesday it has taken action against the ELN, shutting down a clandestine radio station of the far-left Colombian rebel group. Venezuelan state forces located radio station in Apure, a state bordering Colombia, finding technological and communication equipment inside, according toÃÂ ...
Upstream Online
April 17, 2018
Chevron confirmed on Tuesday that a pair of employees from its Global Technology Services Company were "arrested by local authorities" on Monday. The US supermajor is a joint venture partner with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in the Petropiar project in the Latin American nation. "We haveÃÂ ...
Business Insider
April 17, 2018
A man wears a cap with the logo of PDVSA at the swear-in ceremony of the new board of directors of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in Caracas, Venezuela, January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Marco Bello. CARACAS (Reuters) - Chauffeured around in a sleek black pick-up, the head of Venezuela's oil industry, MajorÃÂ ...
Newsweek
April 11, 2018
As Venezuela's humanitarian crisis deepens, desperate people are using medicine made for dogs. Pharmacies are empty, the country's healthcare facilities are crumbling and prices on the black market are prohibitively high, so pet medication is sometimes the only thing attainable for people in need ofÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
April 11, 2018
Cuba will attempt to retain its energy relationship with Venezuela, which now totals about 50,000 barrels per day, for as long as possible. But because of the perilous state of Venezuela's economy, Caracas can share little of its diminishing largesse with Havana, meaning austerity is likely to reign during theÃÂ ...
Energy and Capital
April 11, 2018
Things don't get much worse than the state of Venezuela's oil industry. As one of the founding members of OPEC, it's a shame how things turned out. To say it's on the verge of collapse isn't hyperbole, either. A recent report suggested that 90% of Venezuela's hard currency is obtained through oil exports.
Miami New Times
April 10, 2018
"Our airspace has been taken over," Luis Lippa, a former governor of Apure, a Venezuelan state near the border with Colombia, told the New York Times in 2012. Flying planes that are often poorly maintained, the pilots have one of the world's most dangerous jobs. "If they screw up, they're almost alwaysÃÂ ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
April 3, 2018
The grave crisis facing Venezuela has also affected the life of the local Church. As early as August 2015, it had been reported that the economic crisis had caused the production of hosts in three Venezuelan states to drop by 60 percent. In a March 28 RCN Radio broadcast, Sister Pilar Rivas of the ServantsÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
April 3, 2018
Washington, D.C. - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the deaths of at least 68 people at the General Headquarters of the Regional Police in the Venezuelan state of Carabobo (Comandancia de Carabobo), Venezuela. The IACHR urges the State to investigate thoseÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 29, 2018
The state of Venezuela's jail system has been described by Human Rights Watch alleging that “corruption, weak security, deteriorating infrastructure, overcrowding, insufficient staffing, and poorly trained guards [have] allow[ed] armed gangs to exercise effective control over inmate populations withinÃÂ ...
Herald Sun
March 29, 2018
A riot has broken out at a prison in the central Venezuelan state of Carabobo, leaving five inmates dead and two police officers injured, media outlets reported. The five inmates died on Wednesday because of burns and smoke inhalation, some of their family members said. The cause of the riot is stillÃÂ ...
CCN
March 29, 2018
A senior Russian official has confirmed that Venezuela's debt to Russia, a total of $3.15 billion owed to the Kremlin over a 10-year period, will not be repaid in any part with Venezuelan state cryptocurrency petro. Konstantin Vyshkovsky, chief of the Russian finance ministry's state debt department, toldÃÂ ...
Kaiser Family Foundation
March 29, 2018
“A survey of 104 health facilities in Venezuela, commissioned by the opposition-controlled National Assembly, paints a grim picture of a collapsed system hurting for even the most essential goods and services. … The U.S. State Department says it stands ready to send in aid as soon as the VenezuelanÃÂ ...
Firstpost
March 19, 2018
Washington: US president Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order making it illegal for Americans to purchase any cryptocurrency issued by Venezuela. The order prohibits US entities from engaging in any financial transactions involving the Venezuelan state digital currency, the Petro, on orÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
March 9, 2018
The international community and the Venezuelan State must start cooperating immediately to defuse this explosive crisis. ... Amnesty International calls on the Venezuelan State to work with the international community to ensure that financial and technical resources are available to guarantee timely accessÃÂ ...
Radio Cadena Agramonte
March 7, 2018
This initiative of the State of Venezuela was born with the objective of fighting the financial blockade, attract investments and generate a new payment mechanism of goods and services, according to official sources. As part of the construction of a commercial, financial and monetary zone of the ALBA-TCPÃÂ ...
Mirror.co.uk
March 7, 2018
... to local reports, he then proceeded to eat them. The shocking footage recorded in the borough of Los Guayos in the Venezuelan state of Carabobo has been used by local media to highlight the level of despair in the South American country. A man was filmed butchering a dog in the street (Image: CEN)ÃÂ ...
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (blog)
March 5, 2018
More than 6,000 tests of internet speeds in urban, suburban and rural zones of the 23 Venezuelan states were made for the study, according to the ... recently told the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional that the accumulated debt that the Venezuelan State had with international telecommunicationsÃÂ ...
Finance Magnates
March 1, 2018
In an announcement on Venezuelan state television, Maduro declared that “this is the moment to accelerate the entry of the Petro, to have faith in what we've created and in the technological and intellectual capacity of our country.” “The Petro will have a great impact in how we access foreign currencies forÃÂ ...
TASS
March 1, 2018
MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Rosneft does not see problems with debt servicing by the Venezuelan state oil and gas corporation PDVSA and views shares of the US-based Citgo as a first-grade pledge, press secretary of the Russian oil producer Mikhail Leontyev told TASS on Wednesday. "We do notÃÂ ...
OilPrice.com
March 1, 2018
The country's oil production has steadily eroded over the past decade and a half since the Venezuelan state sacked experienced professionals at PDVSA and used revenues for other purposes while failing to invest in existing oil assets. Verisk Maplecroft argues that Egypt is a potential contemporaryÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
March 1, 2018
“The CIDH not only exhorts but also demands that the State of Venezuela accept the humanitarian aid offered because it is clear that, for whatever ... The representative for the Venezuelan state, Larry Devoe, fired back that the crisis is the fault of the United States for imposing economic sanctions until aÃÂ ...
Newsweek
March 1, 2018
Animals at a zoo in the Venezuelan state of Zulia are dying of starvation as the country dives deeper into a food shortage. Screenshot: Christian Veron Twitter. A male and female couple of Andean condors brought into captivity in order to save the species from extinction have not been fed for weeks, El PaisÃÂ ...
RT
February 21, 2018
Venezuelan state oil firm to strike deals using national cryptocurrency. Published time: 21 Feb, ... The country's oil ministry tweeted the president's directive, which also applies to Venezuelan state-run conglomerate CVG, which is charged with economic development in the Guayana region. It also operatesÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 9, 2018
"Even though Venezuela really begins to develop its oil economy, the Venezuelan state doesn't benefit hugely because, in essence, it's only charging rent for the land," says Julia Buxton, author of The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela. After the discovery of oil, decades of oppression by militaryÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
He said he was only concerned with the social policy of the Venezuelan state towards "young people of low-income backgrounds" and in seeing the project take hold in other countries. "I think it's important because it will spread the ideas that constitute the fundamentals of our project - solidarity, socialÃÂ ...
Philly.com
December 31, 1999
That's because Venezuelan state-owned oil company Citgo, which owns the property previously used for fuel storage, is in the midst of remediating the island. Camera icon Sydney Schaefer. Volunteers pick up supplies prior to participating in a shoreline cleanup of Petty's Island on Saturday morning.
Voice of America
February 19, 2018
In an apparent tit for tat, Maduro has demanded the release of jailed ERC leader Oriol Junqueras and attacked Spain for trying to block an Oct. 1 referendum on Catalan independence. Cyberoffensive. Venezuelan state channels joined a Russian cyberoffensive promoting Catalan separatism through socialÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 16, 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 areÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 9, 2018
"Even though Venezuela really begins to develop its oil economy, the Venezuelan state doesn't benefit hugely because, in essence, it's only charging rent for the land," says Julia Buxton, author of The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela. After the discovery of oil, decades of oppression by militaryÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 7, 2018
The Venezuelan president is expected to encourage members and non-member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to back the cryptocurrency, Venezuelan state radio reported on Tuesday. "I am going to officially propose to all OPEC and non-OPEC producing countriesÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 6, 2018
The case aims to determine if the Venezuelan state was responsible for failing to properly investigate her abduction or punish her kidnapper. ... "The Inter-American Court has the opportunity to issue a ruling that will make the state of Venezuela acknowledge the problem of gender-based violence and takeÃÂ ...
CNBC
January 27, 2018
"As the price of crude has come roaring back to the mid-$60s ... thanks to surging worldwide demand and instability in major petroleum-producing countries like Nigeria and the failed state of Venezuela, Diamondback [Energy] has become one of the hottest stocks around," Cramer said. Trading under theÃÂ ...
Florida Politics (blog)
January 25, 2018
Rodriguez added the push to pass these measures is in response to a purchase made by Goldman Sachs last year in which $2.8 billion worth of bonds were issued by a Venezuelan state-owned oil company. The measures pushed in the Legislature also bar the state from investing in any entity thatÃÂ ...
Arab News
January 19, 2018
Above, the Amuay refinery complex of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in Punto Fijo. Debt and infrastructure problems cut Venezuela's December output to 1.61 million barrels per day, somewhere near a 30-year low. (Reuters)ÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 16, 2018
"Available information indicates that, once issued, the Petro digital currency would appear to be an extension of credit to the Venezuelan government," a Treasury spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. Any such transactions could be a violation of sanctions that prohibit new debt from the Venezuelan state orÃÂ ...
Venezuelanalysis.com
January 2, 2018
The Maduro administration has attributed the delays to “sabotage”, accusing international financial institutions of holding up Venezuelan state payments for the pork imports. Since the imposition of US financial sanctions against Venezuela in August, Maduro has blamed foreign banks for allegedlyÃÂ ...
Houston Chronicle
December 31, 1999
VENEZUELA BIGOIL01-C-22SEPT00-MNJP Farmer drives a tractor in a field boardering one of PDVSA's, the Venezuelan state owned oil company, drilling sights in Motatan the State of Trujillo 310 miles south west ... more. Photo: JULIE ANN PLASENCIA, SFC. Image 2 of 2. FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016 fileÃÂ ...
Citizen
December 15, 2017
Struggling Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA says it has begun paying $539 million in interest payments on four bonds hours before a grace period expires. The company, source of 96 percent of the country's foreign revenues, was declared in partial default by global rating agencies earlier this monthÃÂ ...
OilPrice.com
December 14, 2017
Struggling Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has launched tenders to purchase a total 4.2 million barrels of U.S. and Russian crude oil, which includes up to 3 million barrels of U.S. light sweet and 1.2 million barrels of Russian Urals, Reuters reports citing tender documents. One tender is for fiveÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
December 6, 2017
“This is yet another possibility to create another incredibly nontransparent business like playing with the exchange rates, laundering money and contraband gasoline,” said Pedro Burelli, a former board member of the Venezuelan state oil company and a critic of the Maduro regime. Farnsworth pointed toÃÂ ...
ABC News
December 1, 2017
FILE - In this May 20, 2017 file photo, Venezuelan state security forces detain a protester amid tear gas during a demonstration by opponents of President Nicolas Maduro blocking a major highway in Caracas, Venezuela. According to Human Rights Watch on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, state securityÃÂ ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
November 26, 2017
CARACAS – General Manuel Quevedo will be the new oil minister and head of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), working to restructure the state-owned oil giant, President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday. “We're going to have a total restructuring of PDVSA, that's why I'm announcing that this restructuring will be led by .
Latin American Herald Tribune
November 26, 2017
CARACAS – General Manuel Quevedo will be the new oil minister and head of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), working to restructure the state-owned oil ...
Business Insider
November 24, 2017
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA is in contract talks to export natural gas to neighbors ...
teleSUR English
November 23, 2017
He said this was part of a smear campaign against the Venezuelan state. He said Jurado uses intermediaries to extort business people, asking ...
teleSUR English
November 3, 2017
The meeting that was attended by the Venezuelan state governors, Edwin Rojas and Lizeta Hernandez, from the states of Sucre and Delta ...
Yahoo News
November 3, 2017
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA faces a ... of a humanitarian crisis in four Venezuelan states, according to a May ...
Prensa Latina
October 29, 2017
Caracas, Oct 29 (Prensa Latina) The Ombudsman, Alfredo Ruiz, ratified his support to the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) call for new elections in the ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 26, 2017
CARACAS, Venezuela — A Venezuelan regional legislature on Thursday canceled the election of an opposition governor who refused to be ...
