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Authorities in Venezuela arrested 131 people on charges of “economic sabotage,” Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime announced on Thursday.

Brazil’s Armed Forces are settling in Roraima state — on the border with Venezuela — on Thursday following President Michel Temer’s announcement Tuesday that he had authorized sending troops to keep the peace on the increasingly volatile border.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro proposed providing people with gold bars as an alternative to traditional currency, local media reported this week, after his debut of the “sovereign bolívar” triggered mass confusion nationwide.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of a Ministry of Interior Commerce on Sunday that he claims will “unify” the country’s private and public sectors.

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno took another step Thursday towards undoing the ties leftist predecessor Rafael Correa fostered with the rogue regimes in Cuba and Venezuela, withdrawing from the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a socialist alternative to the Organization of American States (OAS).

Venezuela’s Central Bank introduced a “sovereign calculator” app this week to help people work out the value of the country’s new currency denominations.

Karl Marx’s brand of socialism, an unequivocal disaster that has produced mass poverty, tyranny, and untold deaths, is mounting a comeback among so-called “liberal progressive” Democrats.

Venezuela’s socialist regime accepted humanitarian aid in the form of medical assistance from China this week in an effort to diminish the impact of the collapse of the nation’s health care system.

Venezuelan socialist leader and accused drug lord Diosdado Cabello was in the middle of a speech about the greatness of Bolivarian socialism when a 7.0 earthquake struck the country Tuesday afternoon, triggering panic in the Caracas crowd and leaving Cabello momentarily speechless.

A Venezuelan court suspended the upcoming “Miss Venezuela” beauty pageant on Monday after the winner of last year’s contest launched a legal case against the competition’s organizers.

American megabank Goldman Sachs is likely to lose heavily on their controversial purchase of Venezuelan bonds, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A powerful earthquake has shaken eastern Venezuela, causing buildings to be evacuated in the capital of Caracas.

Venezuelans have started the week in confusion and panic with the introduction of the “sovereign bolívar,” a new currency dictator Nicolás Maduro insists will improve the devastated socialist economy. Speaking to local media, Venezuelans say the government never explained the value of the new currency, meaning they have no idea how to use the new bills.

The federal government in Brazil demanded on Sunday that the border state of Roraima allow the military to deploy in defense of Venezuelan refugees in the state following a mob attack in which locals stoned refugees and burned their few belongings.

Venezuela is set to face further economic turmoil after socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced economic reforms that include lopping five zeroes off the value of the Bolivar currency and increasing the country’s minimum wage by 3,500 percent this weekend.

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Many Venezuelans are now facing the prospect of lack of access to clean water, a crisis affecting everything from people’s homes to public hospitals, a report from Reuters detailed on Wednesday.

Facebook has removed the page of the Latin American communist propaganda network TeleSUR for violating their terms of use, the outlet has announced. 

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Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has ordered the arrest of two opposition lawmakers for the drone attack on him that took place last Saturday. 

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on Monday that the masterminds of Saturday’s drone assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro have been identified and two drone pilots are under arrest.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled the country must keep its border open to Venezuela, as thousands of people flee the collapsed socialist state amid growing famine and political repression. 

Venezuelan police announced six arrests on Sunday with the promise of more to come following an alleged assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro using explosive-laden drones. Maduro ally President Evo Morales of Bolivia accused the U.S. government of masterminding the plot, a charge swiftly denied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has removed five zeroes from the country’s Bolivar currency amid inflation that is expected to reach one million percent by the end of the year.

The cost of a cup of coffee in Venezuela is higher than ever as projections show the country is on track to hit one-million percent.

The NGO Human Rights Watch demanded the “immediate and unconditional release” this week of a Venezuelan man arbitrarily detained for tweeting socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s travel plans.

The metro system in Caracas, Venezuela, ran out of the paper needed to print tickets, the Times of London reported Monday, leaving travelers to get onboard for free.

Two young Venezuelan engineers are using their ingenuity to convert the country’s large amounts of plastic waste into car parts.  

The Central Bank of Venezuela has begun refining gold in Turkey in a bid to escape the pressure of international economic sanctions against the Maduro regime, the country’s mining minister announced on Wednesday.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro declared on Tuesday that the continent of Africa was the real winner of the FIFA World Cup after France won the competition with a team comprising many players of African heritage.

The United States announced on Monday a further $6 million aid package to help Venezuelan refugees fleeing the neighboring country of Colombia. 

Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro announced the appointment of Tarreck el Aissami as head of the Russia-Venezuela Intergovernmental Mixed Commission, a month after he was replaced as vice-president of the socialist regime.

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Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in remarks Thursday that the United States wishes to engineer an “armed confrontation” between Venezuelan troops and Colombian paramilitaries.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Archbishop Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas this week, the Vatican announced.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro may have found an unlikely savior for his economy: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who invited Maduro to his inauguration Monday and appears to have facilitated meetings with Turkish investors.