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CNN EN ESPANOL KICKED OFF AIR IN VENEZUELA
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced the allegations made by the US Treasury Department... READ MORE›
TARECK EL AISSAMI CALLS US SANCTIONS A 'VILE' ATTACK
Their letter referred to El Aissami, noting that his recent appointment as executive vice president put him in line to become Venezuela's next leader... READ MORE›
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SANCTIONS VENEZUELAN VICE PRESIDENT OVER DRUG TRAFFICKING
El Aissami was appointed to the position of executive vice president of Venezuela last month... READ MORE›
BRAZILS SCANDALS CASCADE ACROSS LATIN AMERICA
Another former president, Alan Garcia, oversaw the bidding for a subway line in Lima, which Odebrecht won and constructed... READ MORE›
U.S. SANCTIONS VENEZUELAN VICE PRESIDENT AS DRUG KINGPIN
But in Venezuela, being sanctioned by the United States has become a badge of honor and even grounds for promotion in the government... READ MORE›
TRUMP SANCTIONS VENEZUELA VICE PRESIDENT ON DRUG TRAFFICKING
There was no immediate reaction from the Venezuelan government or El Aissami, who has long denied any criminal ties... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA TRIED TO BLOCK A TV SERIES ON CHAVEZ. IT STILL CAUSED A STORM.
But when El Comandante, a new television series based on Chavez's life, premiered in Latin America last week, Venezuela's telecommunications regulator banned it from the airwaves... READ MORE›
HOW STORYTELLING EXPLAINS WORLD POLITICS, FROM SPAIN TO THE US
How is US President Donald Trump like the leader of Spain's Podemos movement, a long-haired, left-wing university professor named Pablo Iglesias?... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS MARCH AGAINST MADURO GOVERNMENT IN VENEZUELA AS CRISIS DEEPENS
I thought there would be more people, said 54-year-old Freddy Cabrices, a member of Capriles's party who was wearing a baseball cap in the Venezuelan colors... READ MORE›
100-BOLIVAR NOTES GET EXTENSION AS VENEZUELA CRISIS CONTINUES
The 100-bolivar bill, the highest note in production, will remain spendable for at least five more weeks, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said... READ MORE›
VENEZUELAN COURT OVERRIDES OPPOSITION PARLIAMENT'S 'IMPEACHMENT' OF PRESIDENT MADURO
Venezuelan court overrides opposition parliament's 'impeachment' of President Maduro -- RT News... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA HELICOPTER CRASH SURVIVORS RESCUED AFTER SIX DAYS
Venezuela's El Nacional paper says that the military crew members were alive and will be transferred to the capital of Amazonas state, Puerto Ayacucho... READ MORE›
HUNGRY VENEZUELANS FLOOD BRAZILIAN TOWNS, AS THREAT OF MASS MIGRATION LOOMS
Brazilian government services are buckling under the weight of the sudden influx of Venezuelan migrants... READ MORE›
VENEZUELAN JEWS ARE MOVING TO ISRAEL TO ESCAPE DEEPENING POVERTY
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel -- When Daniel Oritz moved to Israel from Venezuela, his first meal was a bowl of chicken soup... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA FREES JAILED ACTIVISTS, EX-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Those include releasing more than 100 people it considers to be political prisoners and naming a new board to the government-controlled electoral council... READ MORE›
VENEZUELANS ARE FLEEING TO BRAZIL FOR MEDICAL CARE OVERWHELMING ITS HOSPITALS AND MORGUES
A spiraling economic crisis and hyperinflation have cleaned Venezuelan hospitals of needles, bandages and medicine... READ MORE›
WORLD'S BEST STOCK RALLY THIS YEAR WAS REALLY JUST AN ILLUSION
Data showing the Caracas Stock Exchange posted the world's biggest advance in 2016 isn't to be trusted... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA TO CUT DAILY CRUDE OUTPUT BY 95,000 BARRELS IN OPEC ACCORD
Venezuela to cut daily crude output by 95,000 barrels in OPEC accord -- RT Business... READ MORE›
100-BOLIVAR NOTE WAS PULLED FROM CIRCULATION BEFORE NEW, LARGER CURRENCY NOTES WERE MADE AVAILABLE
'Utterly stupid' The Democratic Unity opposition coalition said the socialist leader should resign for incompetence and for inflicting yet more suffering on Venezuelans... READ MORE›
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO DELAYS WITHDRAWING 100 BOLIVAR NOTE AMID PROTESTS
But the plan went off the rails when Mr Maduro ordered the 100-bolivar note removed from circulation before the new bills arrived... READ MORE›
HOW TO FIGHT HYPERINFLATION IN VENEZUELA BY SEIZING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF CASH
But many poorer Venezuelans lack formal accounts and keep their money in paper currency... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA CLOSES BORDER WITH COLOMBIA TO COMBAT CASH SMUGGLING
He adds an investigation has revealed that billions in bolivars are stashed by US-backed 'mafias' in Colombian and Brazilian cities... READ MORE›
HOW 'FOOD APARTHEID' IS PUNISHING SOME VENEZUELANS
Venezuela's currency, the bolivar, is now trading against the U.S. dollar at a black-market rate of more than 4,200 to 1, up from roughly 2,000 a month ago... READ MORE›
THE 'MADURO DIET': VENEZUELANS HIT BY FOOD CRISIS - FRANCE 24
INSIDE THE AMERICAS This week, we tell you more about the food crisis in Venezuela. The economic crisis has left people lining up outside emptying supermarke..... READ MORE›
CRASHED PLANE OWNED BY VENEZUELAN, OPERATED BY TINY BOLIVIAN AIRLINE
Albacete later rented out three planes to LAMIA Bolivia, a separate corporate entity... READ MORE›
CASTRO CHAVEZ AND BAD LUCK GLENN REYNOLDS
Both Venezuela and Cuba have suffered under leaders who enriched themselves and their families... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA'S CURRENCY IS SO DEVALUED IT NO LONGER FITS IN ORDINARY WALLETS
A manager places the bank notes received from customers during the day into a cardboard box in Caracas, Venezuela, last month... READ MORE›
HUNGRY VENEZUELANS FLEE IN BOATS TO ESCAPE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
About 60 percent more Venezuelans fled the country this year than during the year before, he added... READ MORE›
BRUISED OIL NATIONS SEEK SOLACE IN FASTEST GROWING GUZZLER
Venezuela has faced widespread shortages of food and essential products as the price of oil, which accounts for 95 percent of its foreign currency earnings, collapsed... READ MORE›
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VENEZUELANS GIVE UP ON COUNTING PILES OF CASH AND START WEIGHING THEM
For a QuickTake explainer on Venezuela's economy, click here Until now, as the bolivar sank, the government declined to print bigger-denomination bills... READ MORE›
VENEZUELANS RANSACK STORES AS HUNGER GRIPS THE NATION
CUMANA, Venezuela -- With delivery trucks under constant attack, the nation's food is now transported under armed guard... READ MORE›
IN A HUNGRY VENEZUELA, BUYING TOO MUCH FOOD CAN GET YOU ARRESTED
Camascaro was snared in a new crackdown on Venezuelan shoppers, part of President Nicolas Maduro's attempt to assert greater control over food distribution and consumption... READ MORE›
GERMANY GREEK AID EXTENSION ONLY MAKES SENSE IF ATHENS UPHOLDS REFORMS
Venezuela has the world's largest estimated petroleum reserves, and when oil prices were high, oil exports made up more than 95 percent of its hard currency income... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA'S 'SOCIALIST PARADISE' TURNS INTO A NIGHTMARE
With Venezuelan oil prices dipping below 40 27 a barrel this week, those revenues are shrinking fast... READ MORE›
DYING INFANTS AND NO MEDICINE INSIDE VENEZUELAS FAILING HOSPITALS
Yet even among Venezuela's failing hospitals, Luis Razetti Hospital in Barcelona has become one of the most notorious... READ MORE›
VENEZUELANS ARE STORMING SUPERMARKETS AND ATTACKING TRUCKS AS FOOD SUPPLIES DWINDLE
Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA QUASHES HOPES TO OUST PRESIDENT MADURO THROUGH RECALL
Government and PDVSA bond prices were largely unchanged at opening showing how many investors had already expected the recall process to be stunted before year-end... READ MORE›
The only major United States antagonist not hurt by the drop in oil prices is North Korea, which imports all of its petroleum... READ MORE›
SHOPPING MALL TERROR ATTACKS CALL
Indeed, some economists say that the government's hesitance to overhaul its perplexing currency controls could intensify Venezuela's economic problems... READ MORE›
'COUP PLOT' CHARGE FOR CARACAS MAYOR
Venezuela's economy has been heavily affected by the drop in oil prices and in late January, thousands of Venezuelans joined an opposition march in Caracas... READ MORE›
EXTREME PRACTICES OF GIRLS IN VENEZUELAN 'BEAUTY FACTORIES'
Inside Venezuelan 'beauty factories' where girls go to become Miss WorldA... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA STOPS POST JOURNALIST, OTHER CORRESPONDENTS FROM ENTERING COUNTRY
Partlow and many other foreign correspondents with non-U.S. passports had routinely visited Venezuela in the past without work visas... READ MORE›
MAYOR HELD IN VENEZUELA POLICE RAID
Venezuela police raid arrests caracas mayor antonio ledezma... READ MORE›
NEPHEWS OF VENEZUELAN FIRST LADY ARRESTED ON U.S. DRUG CHARGES
Vigil said Campos claimed to law enforcement that he is the son of Flores and stepson of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA DECLARES A 2-DAY WORKWEEK BECAUSE OF DIRE ENERGY SHORTAGES
In a desperate attempt to save electricity, drought-stricken Venezuela has introduced a new concept to the workplace calendar the five-day weekend... READ MORE›
AS VENEZUELA LURCHES FROM CRISIS TO CRISIS PRESIDENT MADURO MOONLIGHTS AS SALSA DJ
The government insists the next opportunity to do that will not be until the next presidential elections, at the end of 2018... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA FOOD SHORTAGES CAUSE SOME TO HUNT DOGS, CATS, PIGEONS
Riot police in Caracas clashed with thousands of protesters seeking a recall referendum against President NicolA?s Maduro... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA LEADER SEEKS HELP OVER OIL
Before he left Venezuela Mr Maduro announced a number of new mechanisms aimed at addressing the country's economic crisis... READ MORE›
'WE ARE LIKE A BOMB': FOOD RIOTS SHOW VENEZUELA CRISIS HAS GONE BEYOND POLITICS
One way to channel that frustration is by standing up and expressing through protests, Castiglione said, but security forces are quick to stifle them... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA FACES 'WORST-CASE SCENARIO' AS ZIKA OUTBREAK EXPANDS
The Venezuelan government has reported three Zika-related deaths, although it has not provided details... READ MORE›
PROTESTS AS VENEZUELA ENTERS STATE OF EMERGENCY
Maduro is the heir of the populist president Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer in 2013... READ MORE›
VIDEO PRINCE WILLIAM PAYS TRIBUTE TO COMMONWEALTH WAR DEAD IN JAPAN
, which has been sending missionaries for several years to work with a church in an area near the Caribbean coast west of Caracas, the capital... READ MORE›
THE SPECIAL, WEIRD MISERY OF BEING A SHOPPER IN VENEZUELA
The imported liquor he sells includes Hugo Casanova, a Chilean sauvignon blanc that costs 21,000 Bolivares 23, which is twice the monthly minimum wage in Venezuela... READ MORE›
HOW PRESS FREEDOM DECLINED AROUND THE WORLD LAST YEAR, BY COUNTRY
10 Nov 2013 Other countries where press freedom slumped badly included Venezuela down 20 places to 137th, Libya down 17 places to 154th and Russia down 4 places to 152nd ... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA IS PAWNING ITS ICONIC AMERICAN BRAND CITGO AS DEBTS PILE UP
In the U.S., the triangular Citgo logo is probably best known in Boston... READ MORE›
CORRUPTION, FALLING OIL PRICES AND TALK OF A COUP
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... READ MORE›
VENEZUELA PRESIDENT DECLARES 60-DAY STATE OF EMERGENCY, BLAMING US FOR INSTABILITY
Nicolas Maduro says 'Washington is activating measures at the request of Venezuela's fascist right'... READ MORE›
POLICEMAN DIES AFTER BEING SHOT AT VENEZUELA PROTESTS
Enraged by last week's suspension of a push for a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's opposition has ramped up its tactics in recent days... READ MORE›
MADURO THREATENS SEIZURE OF CLOSED FACTORIES
Venezuelans have lost interest in Mr Maduro's moves because of the economic crisis... READ MORE›