Venezuela News
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Caracas -
Venezuelans stayed away in droves Sunday from municipal elections, handing a victory to the ruling party -- but with just 27 percent turnout.National Electoral Council chair Tibisay Lucena put the rate of abstention at 72.6 percent.
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Caracas -
Analysts were expecting a record low voter turnout Sunday in Venezuela's municipal council elections, a vote in which opposition parties were banned from participating.
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Moscow -
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced $6 billion in Russian oil and gold mining investments in his crisis-wracked South American country Thursday, after talks in Moscow with Kremlin officials.
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San Jos -
A fingerprint test has confirmed the murder of a Venezuelan-born American tourist who had been missing for over a week, police said Wednesday.
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Moscow -
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday voiced support for Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro as he visited Moscow seeking financial assistance for the socialist country's collapsing economy.
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Caracas -
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged support Monday for under-fire Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro during a visit to Caracas aimed at strengthening ties with the crisis-wracked South American country.
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Washington -
The Pan-American Health Organization on Friday reported a big jump in measles cases in the Americas this year, with Brazil surpassing crisis-hit Venezuela as the nation with the most confirmed cases.
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Caracas -
President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday increased Venezuela's minimum wage by 150 percent, the sixth readjustment this year, as part of an economic reform plan that has failed to curb rampant inflation.
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Ciudad Guayana -
Yoli Cabeza was sent from one hospital to another before finally giving birth to her daughter Yusmari in the corridor of a maternity ward because her contractions came quicker than medical help.
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Rio De Janeiro -
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday his government would not send back the tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have sought refuge in Brazil from the economic breakdown in their leftist-ruled homeland.
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Apo -
Two Colombian soldiers were killed and another two wounded Friday along the country's border with Venezuela in a bomb attack blamed by the military on rebels from the National Liberation Army.
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Washington -
A former official in Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's government has pleaded guilty in a billion-dollar money laundering case, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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Caracas -
As if coping with constant food and medicine shortages were not enough for crisis-weary Venezuelans, many live in constant fear in a country where three people die violently every hour.
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Paris -
Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado called Wednesday for a multinational effort to help end the political crisis gripping neighbouring Nicaragua, a conflict which risks destabilising other Latin American nations.
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Caracas -
Venezuelan authorities ordered more than 600 arrests over the last eight months for "speculation" on the currency market, Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced Thursday.
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Geneva -
At least 2.3 million people have fled Venezuela's economic and political crisis since 2015, the UN said Thursday, warning that host countries' capacity to shelter them was now "severely strained".
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Caracas -
Their physique may be a far cry from the celebrated bulk of Japan's mammoth fighters, but athletes like Walter Rivas are beginning to make a name for themselves -- and the noble sport of sumo wrestling -- in Venezuela.
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Caracas -
Caracas accused neighbor Bogota on Monday of being unable to control its armed groups after three Venezuelan soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected Colombian ELN guerrillas.
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Washington -
US President Donald Trump has postponed a trip to meet with his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque, officials said Friday.
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Miami -
The White House imposed "tough" new sanctions against Venezuela on Thursday, denouncing Caracas as being part of a "troika of tyranny" that includes Cuba and Nicaragua.
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Miami -
The White House imposed "tough" new sanctions against Venezuela on Thursday, denouncing Caracas as being part of a "troika of tyranny" that also includes Cuba and Nicaragua.
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Apo -
More than one million Venezuelans have crossed the border into Colombia since the start of this year, although 676,000 of those subsequently moved on to other countries, Colombia's migration authority said.
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Caracas -
Crime and a grinding economic crisis have turned the traditionally vibrant, teeming streets of Caracas into no man's land once the sun goes down.Major thoroughfares like the Francisco Fajardo highway were empty during recent nighttime drives by AFP.
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Calamar -
Back in Venezuela, they were teachers, police officers and newspaper carriers, but were forced to flee their homeland in search of work and money to survive.
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Caracas -
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday labelled US Vice President Mike Pence "a madman" after he accused Caracas of financing the Honduras migrant caravan marching towards the United States.
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Washington -
Vice President Mike Pence suggested Tuesday that leftist groups financed by Venezuela might be behind the caravan of Central American migrants headed toward the US border.
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Buenos Aires -
The lights dim and the musicians start tuning the instruments they cared for along the arduous journey across South America, from Venezuela to Argentina, where they are about to perform their first concert.
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Caracas -
Venezuela on Thursday ordered Ecuador's top diplomat in Caracas to leave the country, hours after Quito expelled Venezuela's ambassador over "offensive" comments about its president.
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Quito -
Ecuador expelled Venezuela's ambassador Carol Delgado on Thursday over "offensive" comments against President Lenin Moreno by a Venezuelan government minister, the foreign ministry said.
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The UN special envoy for Venezuelan migrants called Tuesday for international donations to help South American countries deal with an "avalanche" of migrants from the crisis-wracked country."We will be appealing to donors...
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) talks to supporters during a meeting at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas December 8, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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A majority of the members of the motorcycle federation backed the Venezuelan president's moves. Euronews
Venezuelan lawmakers brawl LiveLeak
Venezuela turned its border with Colombia militarized on August 20, right after President Nicolas Maduro announced its closure for 72 hours over an allegedly paramilitary attack that left three military officers and one civilian wounded. New China TV
Fire at an oil refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela was caused by a lightning strike (August 11, 2013). YouTube
Some of the 1,088 Colombians deported from Venezuela last week in the wake of the border closing. Youtube
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez returns from Cuba where he received chemo treatments. Miraflores Presidential Press Office
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Access road to Amuay Refinery, Venezuela. Tank picture of Hugo Chávez reads: "Of course we can!" Yix
Ivian Sarcos, Miss Venezuela is the Miss World 2011 PR / Miss World Ltd.
With inflation rising dramatically, Venezuelans face worsening food shortages. The Voting Citizen
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro insists his government will adhere to the rule of law. Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/ABr
Empty stores shelves in Venezuela are now a fact of life as economic collapse seems right around the corner. The Photographer
Protesters demonstrate in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2014, urging US President Barack Obama to impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights abuses against anti-government protesters in Venezuela Jewel Samad, AFP
Late Venezuelan president Chavez remembered worldwide Miraflores Palace / Handout
President Maduro gave a rousing speech to his military before they were deployed across the country on Saturday to begin a "military exercise." teleSur English
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Peaceful protestors demonstrating in Caracas, Venezuela. Diego Urdaneta
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