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In Venezuela, we couldn’t stop Chávez. Don’t make the same mistakes we did.
Donald Trump is an avowed capitalist; Hugo Chávez was a socialist with communist dreams. One builds skyscrapers, the other expropriated them. But politics is only one-half policy: The other, darker half is rhetoric. Sometimes the rhetoric takes over. Such has been our lot in Venezuela for the past two decades — and such is yours now, Americans. Because in one regard, Trump and Chávez are identical. They are both masters of populism.
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Whistleblower reveals passport fraud
The stunning postcard-perfect vista surrounding Misael Lopez in this town about one hour from Madrid belies his constant anxiety, even fear. That's because the former legal adviser to the Venezuelan Embassy in Iraq is revealing secrets he says his government doesn't want disclosed. "I'm concerned about my safety and my family's safety everywhere I go," Lopez said as he walked the cobble-stoned streets of Toledo.
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Venezuelans Are Separating Food from Waste as More People Forced to Eat from Garbage
With no solution to the food crisis in Venezuela, people have begun looking for new strategies to make life easier on people forced to eat from garbage.
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Oil-rich Venezuela is experiencing crippling gas shortages
Venezuela, the country with the largest crude oil reserves on the planet, is currently facing a crippling gas shortage — just the latest shortage of everyday necessities to affect the economically beleaguered nation. According to Deutsche Welle, getting gas hasn’t usually been a problem in Venezuela’s capitol city of Caracas, but the country’s main domestic producer — state-controlled company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. — is struggling with distribution, and a backlog of payment delays to suppliers has caused a massive slowdown.
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Venezuela moves one step closer to tyranny.
No surprises there.
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Banned at Sea: Venezuela's Crude-Stained Oil Tankers
In the scorching heat of the Caribbean Sea, workers in scuba suits scrub crude oil by hand from the hull of the Caspian Galaxy, a tanker so filthy it can't set sail in international waters.
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Army declares loyalty to Maduro as Venezuela braces for giant demo
Venezuela's defense minister on Monday declared the army's loyalty to President Nicolas Maduro, who ordered troops into the streets ahead of a major protest by opponents trying to oust him. By Maria Isabel Sanchez.
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Armored military vehicle runs over Venezuelan protester
Sirens blared in the Altamira neighborhood of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. Anti-government protesters poured into the streets of this once bustling commercial and residential hub, their young faces obscured by tear-gas masks and bandanas. They hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at riot police who responded Wednesday to the almost daily demonstrations calling for embattled President Nicolas Maduro to step down.
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Venezuela women's march: Tear gas used on protesters
Anti-government protesters and riot police continue to clash on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela.
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Baby deaths soar 30% in Venezuela
Deaths of babies soared by 30 percent last year in Venezuela, hit by shortages of food and medicine in an economic and political crisis, the health ministry said on Wednesday. Deaths of mothers in childbirth soared by two thirds meanwhile, according to the data published online by the ministry — the latest such figures since 2015.
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A call from Venezuela to the anarchists of Latin America and the world: solidarity is much more than a written word
El Libertario call on all "real anarchists" to wake-up about the situation in Venezuela. Events in Venezuela are genuine expressions of working-class frustration, against a corrupt and dysfunctional state-capitalism, no longer able to sustain itself given the sharp fall in global oil prices.
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US: Venezuela crisis worsening, wants to prevent new Syria
The United States called Wednesday's first-ever U.N. Security Council consultations on Venezuela because the crisis is getting worse and the Trump administration wants to prevent another conflict like Syria, North Korea or South Sudan, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said. Venezuelan Ambassador Rafael Ramirez strongly rejected the U.S. bringing his country's political dispute to the United Nations' most powerful body and accused Washington of again trying "to interfere in our domestic issues."
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Venezuela increases internet censorship and surveillance in crisis
Venezuela is increasingly censoring its internet and expanding online surveillance of citizens. The country is currently in a state of emergency after two months of anti-government protests that have caused the deaths of over 50 people and led to violent confrontations with the police.
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State of Ruin: Tales From Venezuela's Collapse
Eight local photographers reflect on the images that have moved them most
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Venezuela's mass anti-government demonstrations enter third month
Clashes between protesters and security forces have become a deadly cycle and doctors are seeing disturbing patterns in the violence
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Venezuelans Are Seeking a Haven in Crypto Coins as Crisis Rages
Crypto coins’ gyrations require nerves of steel, but to an increasing number of Venezuelans, they’re the safest currency they can own. Demand for digital coins is soaring in Venezuela amid an escalating political crisis that has protesters demanding that President Nicolas Maduro step down. Inflation has spiraled to the triple digits, debasing the bolivar and depleting savings, while citizens struggle to find everything from food to medicine on store shelves.
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Down from the Mountain
What Happened to Venezuela? By Greg Grandin.
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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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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 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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