As World Comes to Halt Amid Pandemic, So Do Migrants

Laborers have not just stopped traveling in search of work. Many have also headed back to their home countries. Migrants at a bridge on the Mexico-United States border wait to reschedule their immigration hearings.Credit…Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters MEXICO CITY — A … Read More

Venezuela celebrates arrival of Iranian petrol tanker

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The first of five Iranian tankers has docked in the South American country. A worker of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA waves an Iranian flag as the Iranian-flagged oil tanker Fortune docks at the El Palito refinery in Puerto … Read More

Venezuela attorney general seeks to declare Guaido party ‘terrorist organization’

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Venezuelan attorney general Tarek William Saab (pictured January 2020) asked the country’s Supreme Court “to determine if the Voluntad Popular political organization is a terrorist organization” Federico PARRA AFP/File Venezuela’s attorney general on Monday asked the Supreme Court to declare opposition … Read More

US, Colombia involvement in a raid in Venezuela confirmed

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Caracas, May 12 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information Jorge Rodriguez on Tuesday confirmed the deep involvement of the United States and Colombia in May 3’s frustrated terrorist raid.   In statements from Miraflores Palace, Rodriguez displayed some … Read More

Venezuelans ‘teetering on the brink of survival’ warn UN human rights experts

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OCHA/Gemma Cortes – Dioximar Guevara lives with her five children in San Felix, a slum of Puerto Ordaz, the main city in Bolívar, Venezuela, where poverty runs deep. United Nations independent experts demanded on Wednesday that the Venezuelan Government take … Read More

Venezuela’s sending its gold reserves to Iran: This is where socialism leads

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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro – REUTERS It’s come to this: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is now sending a good chunk of the nation’s gold to Iran in exchange for help propping up the decrepit oil industry. At least nine tons … Read More

Venezuela’s gasoline goes from world’s cheapest to steepest

PUERTO ORDAZ/MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelans reported paying above $2 per liter ($7.57 per gallon) for gasoline last week amid fuel shortages, one of the world’s highest rates and a dramatic reversal for an OPEC nation that long boasted of … Read More

Venezuela President Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces

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The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed a searing criminal indictment against Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolas Maduro and several “co-conspirators,” accusing them of an array of narcotics and trafficking-related crimes, including efforts to smuggle drugs into the United States. At a press … Read More

One in three Venezuelans not getting enough to eat, UN finds

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World Food Programme says 9.3m people are food insecure People struggling for minimum nutrition amid economic crisis Dugleidi Salcedo complains to a neighbor about the high price of food as she prepares arepas for her three sons in her kitchen … Read More

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