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As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger
For five months, The New York Times tracked 21 public hospitals in Venezuela. Doctors are seeing record numbers of children with severe malnutrition. Hundreds have died.
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As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger
For five months, The New York Times tracked 21 public hospitals in Venezuela. Doctors are seeing record numbers of children with severe malnutrition. Hundreds have died.
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Desperate Venezuelans Turn to Video Games to Survive
They are finding real value in online gold farming. By Andrew Rosati.
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Venezuela to launch cryptocurrency to combat US ‘blockade,’ Maduro says
President claims digital currency called the ‘petro’ will be backed by Venezuelan reserves of gold, oil, gas, and diamonds.
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Nobody is going to bail out Venezuela
China, Russia and the International Monetary Fund are among those contemplating a Venezuela bailout. But help for this debt-stricken nation seems far from assured.
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Maduro: Trump has ‘no right’ to joke about military action in Venezuela
After President Trump spoke about the dire situation in Venezuela at the UN General Assembly, how would that President Nicolás Maduro respond to Trump? Maduro told special correspondent Ryan Chilcote in a rare interview in Moscow on Wednesday that “the time of U.S. interference” in Latin America and the Caribbean should end, and denied that his nation was suffering from a food crisis.
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You Can See the Battle Scars
How Venezuela’s resistance movement — and the country’s democracy — reached a breaking point during one week in July. By Christian Borys.
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Venezuela prepares for war with U.S. with ‘rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready’
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro called on his nation's military leaders Tuesday to prepare for war against the U.S. days after the Trump administration banned Venezuelan officials from entering the nation. "We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves to guarantee peace," said Maduro, who wore a green uniform and a military hat as he spoke with his army top brass during a military exercise involving tanks and missiles.
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Russia to supply 600,000 tonnes of wheat to Venezuela
Russia will supply around 600,000 tonnes of wheat to Venezuela in the current marketing year ending next June, Russia’s agriculture minister told Reuters, deepening the Kremlin’s support for Venezuela’s troubled economy. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro agreed a grain supply deal in May, providing a lifeline to the South American country which has faced soaring bread prices in recent years and queuing at bakeries has become common.
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Hunger eats away at Venezuela’s soul as its people struggle to survive
Hunger is gnawing at Venezuela, where a government that claims to rule for the poorest has left most of its 31 million people short of food, many desperately so. As night falls over Caracas, and most of the city’s residents lock their doors against its ever more violent streets, Adriana Velásquez gets ready for work, heading out into an uncertain darkness as she has done since hunger forced her into the only job she could find at 14.
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Venezuela takes two Colombian TV channels off air
Venezuela's communications regulator Conatel has taken two Colombian television channels off the air. Caracol and RCN were pulled overnight in a move that the channels called "censorship". Earlier this year, CNN's Spanish language channel was also stopped from broadcasting in Venezuela.
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'Hora Cero': The Venezuelan crisis through one young mother's eyes
For Claudia Vivas, a 29-year-old mother living in Caracas, the violence of the protests and the government's response to them have added to an already hard life.
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Venezuela's new assembly declares itself all-powerful
The new constitutional assembly assumed even more power in Venezuela by declaring itself as the superior body to all other governmental institutions, including the opposition-controlled congress. That decree came Tuesday just hours after the assembly delegates took control of a legislative chamber and put up pictures of the late President Hugo Chavez, who installed Venezuela's socialist system.
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Venezuela’s descent into dictatorship shows democracy can be lost
Venezuela's descent into dictatorship is a cautionary tale for Americans: democracy can be lost.
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Venezuela key opposition leaders seized after poll
Two Venezuelan opposition leaders, Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledezma, have been re-arrested in a move condemned internationally. They were under house arrest after accusations of inciting violence during anti-government protests in 2014. The two have been taken to Ramo Verde military jail, family members say.
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Venezuelan officials killed as voting starts
A candidate in Sunday's assembly elections and an opposition activist have been killed in Venezuela. The killings took place before voting started to elect a new assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution. The opposition says it is a power grab by President Nicolás Maduro and is boycotting the vote.
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Analysis | 8 important keys to understanding Venezuela’s controversial election
I like how they speak about the risk of destroying the Venezuelan democracy, as if there were one left to destroy.
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Venezuela opposition leader Lopez freed and under house arrest
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has been moved to house arrest after more than three years in jail. He left a prison near Caracas at dawn and was reunited with his family. Mr Lopez was serving a 14-year sentence for inciting violence during anti-government protests in 2014, a charge he has always denied. The Supreme Court said he was released on health grounds.
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Catholic Church calls Venezuela government ‘dictatorship’
Venezuela’s Catholic Church on Friday blasted President Nicolás Maduro for trying to impose a “dictatorship” by pushing forward an unpopular plan to overhaul the constitution. Speaking at a public event, Archbishop Diego Padron, the president of Venezuela’s Episcopal Conference, said the government’s decision to elect more than 500 delegates on July 30 to rewrite the constitution is illegitimate.
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Venezuela's unbelievable currency collapse is getting worse
The country's currency continues to be in free fall amid a wave of protests that have left dozens dead. Violent protests are growing, the economy is spiraling further out of control and Venezuelans are suffering through shortages of food and medicine. And the bolivar, already worth next to nothing, keeps losing value.
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