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Maduro says his patience with US has run out
Jan 06, 2018 11:55Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has censured United States sanctions on four former and current Venezuelan government officials, warning that the incumbent US president and his administration in Washington has “exhausted his patience.”
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Venezuela’s Maduro announces new measures in face of US ‘economic war’
Jan 01, 2018 05:15The Venezuelan president has announced an immediate 40-percent rise in the minimum wage among a series of measures to be taken with the aim of improving the country’s troubled economy, which he says is the target of a US “war.”
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Maduro’s Socialist Party wins 90 percent of municipalities in Venezuela
Dec 11, 2017 10:54Venezuela’s governing Socialist Party has won more than 300 of the 335 mayorships in local elections, a victory that strengthens the hand of its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, in next year’s presidential race.
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Venezuelan government, opposition resume crisis talks in Dominican
Dec 02, 2017 13:29Representatives of the Venezuelan government and opposition coalition have begun a new round of talks aimed at resolving the country’s political and economic crises.
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Venezuela nabs former senior oil officials in graft probe
Dec 01, 2017 04:13Venezuelan authorities have detained two former senior oil officials in an expanding investigation into the country’s state-run oil industry.
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Venezuela government sacks UN representative, sources say
Nov 30, 2017 03:27Sources in Venezuela have indicated that Rafael Ramirez, the country’s Representative to the United Nations in New York, has been removed from his job.
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EU approves sanctions against Venezuela
Nov 13, 2017 08:55The European Union (EU) has imposed a series of new economic sanctions on Venezuela, stepping up pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro which the bloc blames for the political crisis gripping the Latin American state.
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Venezuela sacks defiant opposition governor-elect
Oct 27, 2017 07:04A newly-elected Venezuelan governor affiliated with the opposition who had refused to pledge allegiance to a government body has been sacked.
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Venezuelans vote in crucial regional elections
Oct 15, 2017 14:29Venezuelans headed to the polls Sunday in regional elections seen as a crucial test for President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition alike after months of deadly street protests failed to unseat him.
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Maduro, Erdogan vow closer Ankara-Caracas cooperation
Oct 07, 2017 08:40The Turkish and Venezuelan leaders say Caracas and Ankara are moving to deepen bilateral cooperation, stressing that the two countries seek a “new era” in their ties in a “different, multi-polar world.”