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Venezuela’s economic fortunes have been tethered to the price of oil for most of the country’s modern history, a dependency that only worsened after a charismatic former paratrooper named Hugo ...
Our live coverage of the protests in Venezuela has ended. You can read more about it here or scroll through the posts below to see how it unfolded. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a ...
At 5 a.m. one day in January 2019, Special Force officers stopped Kelvin Otero Paz, 24, and his brother-in-law, Alan Molina, 24, as they left home for work, said Otero Paz’s aunt, Ana Paz.
Venezuela is the only country in the world that is currently experiencing the ravages of hyperinflation. As 2018 came to a close, Venezuela’s hyperinflation, which I am able to measure by ...
Venezuela is the only country in the world that is suffering from the ravages of hyperinflation. ... The IMF’s forecasts for 2019’s year-end inflation have ranged from 200,000% to a whopping ...
He called Venezuela’s oil the “devil’s excrement.” If oil prices remained high, as they were when Chávez came to power in 1999, then oil revenue could be used to finance a project for the ...
View of humanitarian aid for Venezuela inside a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge in Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, on February 19, 2019.
Venezuela watchers have been talking about the “collapse” of the country for a long time. They were mainly using the word metaphorically, applying it to statistical oddities such as fast ...
Colombian authorities say that more than 1,400 members of Venezuela’s security forces have arrived in their country, fleeing Venezuela. Most arrived on, or since February 23rd, the day that Juan ...
Venezuela Crisis 2019 Explained: Essential Information About Safety, the Economy and the Maduro-Guaidó Dispute. Published Mar 14, 2019 at 8:00 AM EDT Updated Mar 18, 2019 at 4:51 AM EDT. By .
Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, speaking at a public plaza in ... By Ana Vanessa Herrero and Nick Cumming-Bruce. Jan. 25, 2019; Leer en español. CARACAS, Venezuela — Risking ...