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AFTER MADURO LEFT VILLA ROSA, A RUNDOWN AREA KNOWN IN THE PAST AS A PRO-GOVERNMENT STRONGHOLD, INTELLIGENCE AGENTS MOVED IN, OPPOSITION AND RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS SAID.

On Thursday, Mr Maduro mocked what he said was just a mall number of protesters and claimed they were trying to oust him in a coup...

MR MADURO

4th September, 2016 134

IF MR MADURO WERE TO LOSE, WHICH SEEMS LIKELY, NEW PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW.

Security agents raid home of Venezuelan opposition figure and haul him to jail...

2nd September, 2016 2

YOAN VALAT EFE EPA AS A YOUNG MAN, VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO PLAYED ELECTRIC GUITAR, NOT SPORTS.

Venezuela's most decorated Olympian, triple jumper Yulimar Rojas, received a car earlier this year from Maduro...

NICOLáS MADURO

23rd August, 2016 0

THE SAME THING HAPPENED THAT WEEK TO JUVENAL ROSALES, A NINE-YEAR SENIAT EMPLOYEE IN CARACAS -- WITH ONE DIFFERENCE: ROSALES GOT AN OBLIQUE HEADS-UP.

The apparent political harassment represented by the recent civil service dismissals isn't new in Venezuela...

23rd July, 2016 110

smh.com.au

HUNGRY VENEZUELANS FLOCK ACROSS BORDER TO COLOMBIA FOR SUPPLIES

A man peaks over the crowd waiting to cross the border into Colombia through the Simon Bolivar bridge in San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela on Sunday...

18th July, 2016 35

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SOME WEALTHIER CONSUMERS HAVE RESORTED TO HAVING FOOD SHIPPED TO VENEZUELA.

Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle...

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FOOD

29th June, 2016 3862

MADURO, A PROTEGE OF PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ, WHO DIED IN 2013, HAS ADOPTED AN INCREASINGLY SHRILL TONE AGAINST CRITICS OF VENEZUELA'S SO-CALLED BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION.

Indeed, some economists say that the government's hesitance to overhaul its perplexing currency controls could intensify Venezuela's economic problems...

23rd February, 2015 2272

AP WRITER FABIOLA SANCHEZ IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA, CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.

Nephews of Venezuelan first lady arrested on U.S. drug charges...

FRANCISCO FLORES

11th November, 2015 1268

telegraph.co.uk

A DISPUTE WITH MINERS IN A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN GREECE SUGGESTS THE SYRIZA GOVERNMENT SHARES THE CHAVISTA ANTI-CAPITALIST AGENDA

"fresh political air" around Megali Panagia has become distinctly toxic, with the unions accusing Syriza .....

KONSTANTINOS KARAMANLIS

4th July, 2015 862

MADURO IS THE HEIR OF THE POPULIST PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ, WHO DIED OF CANCER IN 2013.

Maduro scapegoated the U.S., alongside ex-Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in his Friday night address...

16th May, 2016 800

BEING A CONSUMER IN VENEZUELA RIGHT NOW IS MOSTLY A MISERABLE EXPERIENCE.

Shopping is surreal in Venezuela, with 200-percent inflation and 3-hour lines at stores...

11th December, 2015 779

A POSSIBLE DEFAULT BY VENEZUELA ON ITS EVER-EXPANDING DEBT IS ALSO LOOMING.

If the day comes when they too abandon President Maduro and turn against him, all bets will be off on what could happen to Venezuela...

21st February, 2015 740

VENEZUELA PRESIDENT DECLARES 60-DAY STATE OF EMERGENCY, BLAMING US FOR INSTABILITY

Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party has long been a strong ally of Rousseff's Workers Party, however, and her departure adds to Maduro's isolation in Latin America...

14th May, 2016 684

U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS VENEZUELA COULD BE HEADED FOR COLLAPSE

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INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS

14th May, 2016 626

VENEZUELA LAWMAKER SERRA'S MURDER BLAMED ON FAR RIGHT

VENEZUELA INTRODUCES POWER CUTS OF FOUR HOURS A DAY FROM NEXT WEEK TO DEAL WITH A WORSENING ENERGY CRISIS.

Venezuela is introducing power cuts of four hours a day from next week to deal with a worsening energy crisis...

22nd April, 2016 547

CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- NINE WORDS INTO HER ANSWER ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE IN VENEZUELA, OMAIRA LAJA WAS IN TEARS.

Tensions are high as Nicolas Maduro's government faces a strong electoral challenge...

6th December, 2015 512

BARINAS, VENEZUELA -- AS PRESIDENT, HUGO CHAVEZ LAVISHED MILLIONS FROM THIS COUNTRY'S OIL BOOM ON HIS HOME STATE OF BARINAS.

He sang Barinas's songs, danced its folk dances on television and rode with its cowboys over its open plains...

13th December, 2015 465

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WATER AND POWER SHORTAGES VENEZUELA'S ECONOMIC WOES ARE EXACERBATED BY WATER AND ELECTRICITY SHORTAGES.

'We're living worse than in a war' Venezuela's deepening economic crisis...

21st June, 2016 381

"THE LOPEZ CONVICTION ALSO STRENGTHENS THE HAND OF THE RIGHT IN WASHINGTON, WHICH WILL PRESS FOR FURTHER SANCTIONS AGAINST VENEZUELA," SMILDE SAID.

"Venezuela's public powers are independent," she said at the United Nations after meeting with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

12th September, 2015 292

usatoday.com

FIDEL CASTRO MAKES RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN CUBA

Cu, showing former Cuban president Fidel Castro greeting a member of the Venezuelan delegation...

4th April, 2015 277

VENEZUELA PRESIDENT DECLARES ECONOMIC EMERGENCY AS INFLATION HITS 141 PERCENT

It would give Maduro wider powers for 60 days to intervene in companies or limit access to currency...

MADURO EXTRAORDINARY POWERS

NICOLáS MADURO

16th January, 2016 270

AS ACTIVISTS DEMAND PRESIDENT MADURO'S REMOVAL, HIS NATURAL SUPPORTERS ARE JOINING PROTESTS AGAINST SHORTAGES AND HIGH PRICES

In Venezuela's housing projects, even loyalists have had enough...

LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION

23rd May, 2016 231

BUT TO HEAR MR. MADURO TALK, CHAVISMO'S HISTORIC LOSSES WERE NOT HIS FAULT.

We are facing a disaster, said Hector Navarro, a former cabinet minister...

9th December, 2015 218

usatoday.com

PROTESTS AND LOOTING HAS SOARED AS VENEZUELA'S FOOD CRISIS MOUNTS.

Looting, arrests soar as Venezuelaa??s food crisis mounts...

UNITED SOCIALIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA

UNITED SOCIALIST PARTY

16th June, 2016 207

DURING A LULL IN THE SHOOTING, ANOTHER MILITIA LEADER, JOSE ODREMAN, TOLD REPORTERS THAT HIS COMRADE HAD BEEN SHOT DEAD IN HIS SLEEP.

Odreman, a former policeman, also warned that if anything were to happen to him, the responsibility would be in the hands of the justice minister, Miguel Rodriguez Torres...

9th October, 2014 201

www.cbc.ca

VENEZUELA'S ECONOMIC MELTDOWN HAS BECOME SO DIRE THAT FEW POLITICAL ANALYSTS BELIEVE PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO WILL MANAGE TO FINISH HIS TERM, WHICH ENDS IN 2019.

Venezuela's economic meltdown has become so dire that speculation from political analysts now centres on when and how President Nicolas Maduro will be removed from power...

24th May, 2016 196

SUCH GROUPS WERE ALSO OFTEN USED TO INTIMIDATE OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS.

"we would take to the streets to fight, to do battle, to defend our country," Mr. Maduro said .....

CARACAS

4th December, 2015 195

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

REMOVAL OF CHVEZ IMAGES FROM VENEZUELA CAPITOL RAISES TENSION

I can't fail to express my anger, my repudiation, Mr. Maduro said...

MR. CHáVEZ

MR. MADURO

PRESIDENT HUGO CHáVEZ

8th January, 2016 191

VENEZUELA'S FIRST LADY CILIA FLORES TO RUN FOR CONGRESS WHILE OPPOSITION FIGURE BARRED

Machado an opposition leader called the National Elections Council's rejection of her candidacy a grotesque violation of her rights and the rights of all Venezuelans...

LEADERSHIP

LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION

MARíA CORINA MACHADO

4th August, 2015 166

FELLOW LEFTIST LEADER CALLS VENEZUELA'S PRESIDENT 'CRAZY LIKE A GOAT'

Fellow leftist leader calls Venezuelas president crazy like a goat...

PRESIDENT JOSé MUJICA

19th May, 2016 136

smh.com.au

VENEZUELA'S OPPOSITION SAID IT HAS COLLECTED 1.8 MILLION SIGNATURES TO LAUNCH A RECALL REFERENDUM AGAINST MADURO.

Blackouts are common in Venezuela, which depends heavily on hydro-electric power...

21st May, 2016 117

VENEZUELA RACING TO COLLECT 10M SIGNATURES AGAINST OBAMA

Maduro has justified mobilizing state resources to garner the signatures by arguing that the United States is an existential threat to Venezuela...

HUMAN RIGHTS

NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT

6th April, 2015 115

WIFE OF VENEZUELA'S MOST POTENT OPPOSITION FIGURE IS DESPERATE FOR HIS RELEASE FROM JAIL

But she says that nothing in Venezuela surprises her any more...

21st February, 2015 81

aljazeera.com

VENEZUELA'S OPPOSITION SAYS IT HAS COLLECTED ENOUGH VALID SIGNATURES TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ITS BID TO REMOVE PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO IN A REFERENDUM.

Venezuela Oil shock and economic catastrophe Waiting a food queue, Manuel Araque, a farmer in Barlovento, said Maduro was humiliating Venezuelans...

NATIONAL ELECTORAL COUNCIL

BARLOVENTO

25th June, 2016 78

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IF THE REFERENDUM HAPPENS THIS YEAR AND MR. MADURO LOSES, VENEZUELANS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ELECT A NEW PRESIDENT.

Mr. Maduro had traveled from the capital, Caracas, to Margarita Island off Venezuela's northern coast to inaugurate a number of new public housing units and give a televised address...

MR. MADURO

NICOLáS MADURO

4th September, 2016 74

japantimes.co.jp

TEXAS AGREES TO WEAKEN VOTER ID RULES DEEMED BIASED FOR NOVEMBER POLL

More than 30 states have some form of voter ID rules...

VOTER ID LAW

U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

4th August, 2016 0

aljazeera.com

VENEZUELA'S ECONOMY IS FORECAST TO CONTRACT EIGHT PERCENT THIS YEAR, WITH INFLATION OF 700 PERCENT.

The opposition accuses electoral authorities of dragging their feet on the referendum process to protect Maduro...

CARACAS

3rd June, 2016 72

LUIS ALMAGRO SEEKS MEETING WITH 34 MEMBER STATES TO POSSIBLY SUSPEND COUNTRY FROM ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, WHICH NICOLAS MADURO DENOUNCED

OAS head calls for vote on Venezuela's 'grave alterations' to democracy...

1st June, 2016 37

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ESTIMATES THAT ABOUT 110 POLITICAL DISSIDENTS ARE SERVING PRISON SENTENCES IN VIETNAM.

The White House had requested the meeting as a signal to Vietnam's Communist government that the United States cares about human rights here...

24th May, 2016 724

UNLIKE PRESIDENT CHAVEZ BEFORE HIM, PRESIDENT MADURO DOES NOT COME FROM A MILITARY BACKGROUND.

For over a year now, Venezuelans have been suffering under an ever deepening economic and political crisis...

LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION

21st May, 2016 154

THE OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD LIMITED INFLUENCE IN VENEZUELA, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT HAS BLAMED AMERICAN MEDDLING FOR THE INSTABILITY.

Venezuelan Leader Tightens Grip as US Fears Tumult...

MR. MADURO

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CARACAS

15th May, 2016 135

aljazeera.com

OPPOSITION PARTIES STAGE MARCHES IN EFFORT TO STEP UP CAMPAIGN TO TOPPLE PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO VIA RECALL REFERENDUM.

One recent opinion poll showed almost 70 percent of Venezuelans want Maduro stripped of presidency this year...

PEPPER SPRAY

RECALL ELECTION

12th May, 2016 52

smh.com.au

ARE 'DEMOCRACY' AND 'HUMAN RIGHTS' WESTERN COLONIAL EXPORTS? NO. HERE'S WHY.

This is not to deny that many critics around the world denounce human rights and democracy as Western impositions...

29th April, 2016 4

REFERENCES TO WUJIE NEWS, AND TO THE LETTER APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DELETED FROM THE CHINESE MICRO-BLOGGING SITE, WEIBO.

China: Hip-hop propaganda boosts cult of Xi Jinping Wen said he did not know who wrote the letter and maintained he had nothing to do with its publication...

BARACK OBAMA

26th March, 2016 116

CLINTON HAS WON 762 PLEDGED DELEGATES COMPARED TO 549 FOR SANDERS, WITH 10 DELEGATES FROM RECENT PRIMARIES STILL TO BE ALLOCATED.

Sanders called that notion ridiculous and absurd, and accused Clinton of picking small pieces out of big legislative packages to distort his voting record...