Kejal પ્રવીણ Vyas
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Guju guy from New Jersey. Colombia/Venezuela corresponding for @WSJ . Retweets/hearts not 👍🏾 👎. I have no views, no cult affiliations.
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The pandemic lockdown has roiled migrant communities around the world. In
#India
, Jyoti Kumari, a 15-year-old Dalit girl, cycled her injured father 1,200 km back to their Bihari village from outside Delhi, where he was facing eviction.
लॉकडाउन था, सो अपने पिता को साइकिल पर बैठाकर गुरुग्राम से दरभंगा ले गई बेटी...
वीडियो: मोहन भारद्वाज और सीटू तिवारी
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Con mucho dolor nos enteramos que nuestro conductor, colega, pana y guardián Daniel “el Gordo” Torres fue asesinado en Petare anoche. Por varios años Daniel ha sido el héroe silencioso del periodismo en
#Venezuela
, protegiendo y guiando a muchos colegas. QEPD hermano mío.
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Pasé unos días en
#Maracaibo
y ahora no puedo dejar de decir verguero. Que palabra tan versátil.
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Latest
#Venezuela
#encovi
survey finds 96% of population living in poverty, nearly 80% in extreme poverty.
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Esta fotaza anda en toda parte y pocos le dan crédito al maestro
@mgutierrezphoto
. Felicidades colega.
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About 15hrs before his predawn uprising call, we followed
@jguaido
strolling calmly to a coffee shop. Motorists honked calling him president, congressman, Guaidó or simply Juan. He said he prefers the latter. “Titles are temporary. But I'll always be Juan"
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Con dos balas, el asesino de Daniel no sólo le robó a
#Petare
un ser humano extraordinario. También cerró una importante lente a través de la cual el mundo vio a
#Venezuela
y su barrio con más hondura y detenimiento
Gracias
@prodavinci
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Can't wait for the choo-choo train and the volcano spewing baking soda and vinegar lava.
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At this kiosk in Caracas, there aren’t any newspapers to read but they’ll sell you these bundles for your pet’s poop next to a sign “periódicos para mascotas.” The owner says a little girl recently stopped to ask him “Cual es el perro que sabe leer?”
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Things you hear in
#Caracas
: My relationship ended. I think he was using me for my running water.
Hapless romantic
@andrewrosati
on the
#Venezuela
dating scene in a time of economic misery and mass exodus.
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Did you like
@disneypixar
’s “Up” or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World?” Well, as
#Venezuela
’s economy collapses and President
#Maduro
pushes gold as a remedy, the national park that inspired them is increasingly being dug up by miners. via
@WSJ
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Acabamos de echar gasolina en Guatire,
#Venezuela
cuando nos dimos cuenta que nadie en el carro tenía efectivo. Pagamos con un racimo de mamón. Haciendo el cálculo, pagamos 20 veces más del valor del combustible.
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#Venezuela
’s economic crisis has been so profound that it’s achieved something Chavismo couldn’t do in 20 yrs: lower homicide and kidnapping rates. With bullets and car parts too pricy for many criminals “the crisis has hit us all, even the malandros.”
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Interesting to see that even in the parallel universe that is
#Venezuela
state TV they're lamenting a brain drain. This person however says youth are leaving "because they don't agree with our revolutionary policies." Bizarre way of referring to hunger, no jobs and fear for life
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“Te amo, catire!” (I love you, blondie) some passersby shouted at
@realDonaldTrump
, sort of, at today’s opposition rally in
#Caracas
. Others stopped by to shake his hand and thank him for his hard line against
#Venezuela
strongman
@NicolasMaduro
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“Normalising” = No running water, 3-day gasoline lines, 5-digit inflation, etc etc
The contradictions of Venezuela: the UN thinks that 7m people need urgent aid, but the now-dollarised economy is normalising and the regime is stronger than it was. Our report:
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Had a meeting with a person in the Maduro government. Dude showed up an hour late.
Had a meeting with a person on the Guaido side; showed up 45 minutes late.
In a nutshell, these are the options for
#Venezuela
.
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Wondering how
#Venezuela
opposition’s decision to name 80-year-old distinguished academic
@yorisvillasana
as their presidential candidate against
@NicolasMaduro
will affect her weekly sessions of live-tweeting Real Madrid matches.
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#Venezuela
's
#Maduro
getting a standing ovation for announcing a new handout of 700,000 bolivars monthly for pregnant women and 1 million at birth. That's $3.83 and $5.48, respectively. Will probably be worth much less by the end of the week.
#hyperinflation
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All the talk about
#Venezuela
dollarizing, the supermarket shelves flush with $15 Cheerios and even the surreal laser light show over
#Caracas
last weekend is nice and all but, alas, we haven’t had running water at the apartment since last Thursday.
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Merry Christmas to all. May the paid actors in 19th century garb at your supper bring you joy and presents.
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According to
@TheJusticeDept
,
#Venezuela
gov bagman
#AlexSaab
will make his initial court appearance on Monday, Oct. 18, at 1p.m. before Judge John J. O’Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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Esta tragedia nos deja un hueco en nuestras corazones. En una situación tan oscura, Daniel era una luz, una gota de alegría y optimismo en un ambiente que muchas veces parece sin esperanza. Cuanto te quiero hermano.
Gracias a
@vasilco
por esta foto.
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Nick Oropeza, a 19-yr-old student from a pro-gov zone of west
#Caracas
, had never been to a protest until last week, when his family, mostly state workers decided to support
@jguaido
become interim
#Venezuela
president. It was his 1st and last protest.
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Un taxista en Villavicencio, Colombia me preguntó si soy de Venezuela. I've finally made it.
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#Colombia
President-elect
@petrogustavo
in a 30-min one-on-one chat with his longtime political nemesis, former President
@AlvaroUribeVel
.
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Latin America’s school kids have missed more class days amid the pandemic than anywhere else, and remote learning is a pipe dream for millions of poor. Some 15%, or 28 million, will drop out.
“We are facing the biggest education crisis ever.”
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As
#Venezuela
's gold shipments to
#Turkey
,
#UAE
and
#Russia
come under scrutiny, worth remembering that the mining frenzy promoted by
@NicolasMaduro
's cash-strapped gov threatens irreparable harm to some of the world's most pristine natural reserves, like Canaima National Park
Did you like
@disneypixar
’s “Up” or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World?” Well, as
#Venezuela
’s economy collapses and President
#Maduro
pushes gold as a remedy, the national park that inspired them is increasingly being dug up by miners. via
@WSJ
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Could be bazillions.
Today hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to protest the US embargo of their country, which is a suffocating economic war on the entire population.
Their message was
#NoMasTrump
/
#NoMoreTrump
! Unblock Venezuela!
Video report coming soon at
@GrayzoneProject
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“If you converted $1 million into
#Venezuela
bolivars in 2013, when Nicolas Maduro came to power, and left it in an interest-accruing bank, your balance would be about 3 cents.”
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Hallaca número 3 del día. Tough life, but someone’s gotta live it.
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Can’t wait for this analyst hot take: the 2025 regional elections in
#Venezuela
will be a great opportunity for negotiations, restoring democratic institutions and stabilizatisjfjejdfnned
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#Colombia
border security footages shows
#Venezuela
riot police firing tear gas at the Francisco de Paula Santander bridge forcing those trying to enter with humanitarian aid to retreat from the convoys.
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Stepping out of the big church gates to chants of “Presidente!” here’s how
@jguaido
, who became the interim leader of a transitional government in
#Venezuela
seeking to oust
@NicolasMaduro
and hold free elections, made his entrance at a rally today
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#Venezuela
pharmacy shopping: Turkish shampoo, Russian (?) toothpaste, “Aluays” knockoff feminine pads and a prophylactic seemingly packaged in the 80s
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Duly elected? Not according to the governments of 50+ countries. Also, the shortages are not a new phenomenon. They started years before sanctions were applied.
US sanctions against Venezuela account for shortages, not choices of the duly elected government.
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Caring for elderly left behind is a top concern for those that fled
#Venezuela
, amid food, medicine shortages and $3/month state pensions.
So to battle solitude and depression, one group offers a new service: Mi Hijo Suplente, or My Replacement Child
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With arrest of Alex Saab, the US is closing in on one of Nicolás Maduro’s closest bagmen and among US’s highest profile targets in the
#Venezuela
regime.
“The whole financial operation of the regime could crumble with this guy at the hands of the U.S.”
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Heartbreaking moments in Senkata, El Alto
#Bolivia
today where a tiny church became a morgue for those killed as military men used live rounds to disperse protesters a day earlier. All 6 here had gunshots to the head. “This was no accident” defensora del Pueblo Nadia Cruz told me
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In
#Venezuela
, the
@NicolasMaduro
gov uses dwindling resources to sustain Caracas, leaving regional cities, like
#Maracaibo
, without public services like power or security. With taps dry, residents spend much of the day on roadsides begging for water.
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Imagine being this clueless on a subject and still feeling you can opine on it.
#Venezuela
"If all that's true, it would be appalling, but I have watched America impose sanctions… an appalling impact on their country"
@ken4london
on how Alan Johnson & Esther McVey reacted to his
#bbctw
film
"As we speak tonight, children in
#Venezuela
are starving to death"
@afneil
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Interesting piece on a group of propagandists/apologists for authoritarian regimes who show up everywhere from
#Venezuela
to
#Nicaragua
to
#Syria
and
#Russia
to whitewash state repression and mass murder.
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#China
has been in contact with representatives of
#Venezuela
’s political opposition in Washington to safeguard its investments in the case of a regime change. Beijing realizes "they have to put eggs in the other basket,” says
@revanellis
via
@WSJ
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This would’ve been a great time to have a movie about
#Haiti
hero Toussaint Louverture. A decade after
#Venezuela
’s government gave Danny Glover $18 million to make it, still nada.
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To those dear friends who have asked: no, this is not me. And no, we’re not related.
Estrechar lazos de amistad y construir puentes que faciliten los procesos del diálogo sincero y franco, permitirán, más temprano que tarde, consolidar la unión nacional y la Paz de Venezuela. ¡Juntos Venceremos!
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These bills are so 8 zeros ago.
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In the ever-changing explanation for
#Venezuela
’s power problems,
@NicolasMaduro
now blames latest blackout on terrorists mercenaries hired by his political rivals who he says fired a rifle at a key power transmission post. Past culprits have included hackers and iguanas.
ÚLTIMA HORA | Maduro culpa a la oposición del tercer apagón masivo en Venezuela: "Ha sido un ataque terrorista brutal. El ataque se hizo con fusil. El lugar atacado fue un lugar vital para la transmisión de electricidad del país"
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Rejoice! Time for our 15 minutes of water service. Of course there’s no pressure since the whole building is scrambling to fill buckets. The wonders of
#Caracas
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Nuestro querido conductor quien vive en un barrio de
#Petare
ofrece su prueba de que
#Venezuela
está en crisis: su vecino malandro no tuvo balas para disparar al aire desde su ametralladora para recibir el Año Nuevo.
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Quarantined for months in Italy on the 17-deck cruise ship where he works as a chef, Juan Sebastian Baños turned to virtual salsa classes from his native Cali,
#Colombia
to battle boredom and depression.
Here he is strutting his stuff on the ship.
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White House says Biden’s “I do” earlier was not an endorsement for a
#Venezuela
election redo and that it was a misunderstood question:
“The President was speaking to the absurdity of Maduro and his representatives not coming clean about the July 28 elections,” spoxperson says.
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Tubazo de
@wsj
con
@jareddiamond
.
@LVBP_Oficial
corta relaciones financieras con estado
#venezolano
, prohíbe logos de
@PdVSA
y
@BandesVe
para restablecer relaciones con
@MLB
a pesar de las sanciones de
@USTreasury
via
@WSJ
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scenes outside
#Venezuela
's parliament....definitely not a military dictatorship...
Juan Guaido et des dizaines de députés sont effectivement bloqués à l’extérieur du Parlement.
#7Ene
#Venezuela
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6 hours in
#Venezuela
’s
#Maiquetia
airport staring at these vending machines and wondering why they exist. The depressing selection aside, the machines are either out of order or only take cash, which is in scarce supply. So no way to purchase.
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With impending oil boom,
#Guyana
's sleepy stock exchange--which fits on a dining table--dreams big. “People walk by here all the time and say ‘I never knew Guyana had a stock exchange,’” says its general manager.
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For what it’s worth, the Sunday Chinese market in
#Caracas
appears to be bustling again. Last time I stopped by a year ago there were just a few stalls with little food to sell. Also, this is one of the only places I’ve seen here where bolívar cash still moves en masse.
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Days before fleeing
#Venezuela
,
@leopoldolopez
caught up with his old schoolmate, actor Ethan Hawke. Both said they look forward to working together to shine more light on nation's crisis.
"I'll get your beautiful face out there, OK?" Hawke tells Lopez.
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¿Más fracturas entre la oposición de
#Venezuela
? Acción Democrática no acompañará la propuesta sobre modificaciones al estatuto de transición para permitir la continuidad de la AN/gob interino. En resumen, AD, 1 de los 4 principales partidos, votaría en contra.
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#Venezuela
's
@NicolasMaduro
bunkered down against the world and most of his own country on cover of this week's
@RevistaSemana
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#Maiquetia
duty free now takes $$. They even give Abe Lincoln as change.
#WTF
? Is this still
#Venezuela
? May not be a big deal anywhere else the in world but for a country that has maintained most ridiculous FX system since 2003, I can’t express how huge this is.
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#Venezuela
state TV has talked all morning about the professionalism of the military while gov officials assure soldiers stood firm during yday's alleged assassination plot.
What's that Orwell line again about the party demanding you reject the evidence of your eyes and ears?
"Y bajo ninguna circunstancia permitiremos que sea vulnerada la soberanía nacional", lee Padrino López
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#Haiti
’s president was murdered in his bedroom, at least 724 people have been killed in an earthquake, and a tropical storm is en route to the island nation, all within five weeks.
The heart breaks for Haitian people.
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“Dollarization is the essence of a transformation from an oil-dependent economy into a remittance economy” that requires “Darwinian adaptation.”
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El cacerolazo llegó a Washington DC.
People in Washington, DC, are banging pots and pans outside their windows 30 minutes into today’s curfew. This is a common protest method in Latin America, especially Brazil, where it is known as “panelaço.”
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Among the few apps that
@NicolasMaduro
apparently has on his cell phone:
@netflix
and a digital wallet for
#Venezuela
’s fledgling cryptocurrency—the petro.
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#Venezuela
’s Maduro, trying to explain his upcoming economic reforms, boasts on Facebook Live of “magic formula we came up with through studies.” Curious venue to expound on such a big reform package considering blackouts, lousy/nonexistent internet for much of country.
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Flashy casinos, imported SUVs and the U.S. dollar: how market liberalization in
#Venezuela
is helping the economy grow after 7 years of freefall and an 80% contraction--the worst for a country not at war. Inflection point or just an orgy in a cemetery?
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Se habla español, pero sin contexto.
I did not know the phrase I used in Miami today was associated with Che Guevara & I did not mean to offend anyone who heard it that way. I certainly apologize for not understanding that history. (1/2)
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Curiously, when
@Jose_deCordoba
and I interviewed the Derwick boys some years ago, they were paying Fusion GPS for reputation management. Now they’re on to
@RudyGiuliani
at the same time that
@RealDonaldTrump
says he’s taking on
#Venezuela
’s corrupt. 🤔
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“Tú tranquilo, estás con El Gordo y no va a pasar nada.”
“Vuelve pronto, no te vayas a olvidar de tu Gordo.”
Gracias
@fmanetto
y
@lafuentejavi
por estas frases icónicas del Gordo y un homenaje tan lindo.
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In
#Venezuela
’s make-up-the-rules-as-you-go democracy, you don’t even have to run in the primaries. Then, six months later, and an hour after the application deadline, you can feign surprise that you’re suddenly presidential candidate.
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The daily ATM withdrawal limit on my
#Venezuela
bank account: $1.27. Cab ride to the bank: about $1. Walk back home: priceless.
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Mega rumba at the
#Caracas
Sphere. Read about how public use and interpretation of this iconic art piece by Jesús Soto has evolved with
#Venezuela
’s booms and busts.
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Someone last night in
#Caracas
told me that they love my economic data app. Just relaying the message
@jammastergirish
. Think that was for you.
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Those all-too-familiar waits for the notoriously faulty computer systems at
#Venezuela
’s Simón Bolívar international airport to work...
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Our trusty driver, who lives in the east
#Caracas
slum of
#Petare
, says he knows the country is in crisis because his goon neighbor didn't have bullets to spray into the air on New Year's Eve.
#TrueStory
#Venezuela
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An emailer points out this debate among Wikipedia editors that closed today after several weeks, as to whether
#Venezuela
’s presidency is still “disputed.”
@jguaido
’s photo no longer with
@nicolasmaduro
, tho dispute still noted at end of info box .
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A dude says (as warning?) my
#Venezuela
stories are “being tracked, word by word.” Great, since market research suggests most folks barely go past the headline. Later, he provides an RT op-ed by
@georgegalloway
, saying it’s more reliable than on-the-ground reporting.
#SureWhyNot
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Listen to this young mother brought to tears when she reflects on the militarized hellscape that
#Venezuela
has become:
“When I was born Venezuela wasn’t like this. The country I offer my children is something horrible.”
Madre humilde venezolana: Si no dejan entrar a los diputados (oposición) esto se va a poner peor... Venezuela no era así, y ahora es horrible la Venezuela que van a heredar mis hijos
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Hi. Can I use your Himalayan banking system?
Extraordinaria y fructífera reunión con el excelentísimo Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, Primer Ministro de la República Federal Democrática de Nepal. Un encuentro que fortalece los lazos de amistad, respeto y cooperación mutua para el desarrollo de nuestras naciones.
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The indigenous Pemon were long the protectors of the park and relied on green tourism. But visitors have all but disappeared and so has
#Venezuela
’s worthless Bolivar currency, so much so that prices of goods are all marked in grams of gold (~$20/gr)
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Barely any running water, power or fuel in the country but that’s not stopping
#Venezuela
’s Supreme Court from ordering authorities to take over and restart services of Directv, which recently ceased operations citing US sanctions.
Sala Constitucional del TSJ ordena la ocupación e inmediata restitución del servicio de televisión por suscripción a Directv Venezuela
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What happens when you let
#PdVSA
run your oil joint venture? You get HP printers invoiced for $156,000. For those like
#Chevron
who stayed on in
#Venezuela
long after rivals quit, low profits and corruption entanglements make continued work here very risky
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Quite an exchange between a Venezuelan and Maduro apologist Boots Riley. Whatever you think about Boots, he's on point in 3rd video when he asks "Why are you talking to me?" Seriously, why would anyone honestly interested in learning about
#Venezuela
go to him for information?
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Thanks to
@DigitalGlobe
#Venezuela
's hunger is seen from space. Watch shipping containers vanish at Puerto Cabello
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Correction: Jyoti is only 13. 700+ miles in a week-long journey with little food.
@letour
should take note.
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Could an attack inspired by Die Hard 4 be the cause of
#Venezuela
's epic blackout, as some in gov say? New study suggests it was more likely fires around and faulty maintenance of the El Guri hydroelectric complex via
@WSJ
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