Tag: Venezuela

Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 16:50 UTC
Venezuela takes over toilet paper factory in order to avoid “nationwide shortage”

The Venezuela government has temporarily taken over a toilet paper factory in order to avoid a nationwide shortage. The decision was implemented by the National Guard which took control of the ‘Manufacturas de Papel’ plant and authorities will now oversee and monitor its production.
Friday, September 20th 2013 - 08:24 UTC
US corn exporters concerned with Mercosur competition in Venezuela

United States corn exporters are concerned with the fact that Venezuela, one of their prime markets, is now a full member of Mercosur, which includes Brazil and Argentina two major exporting countries.
Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 19:06 UTC
Venezuelan youth crime: blame it on Spiderman and other ‘idolized super.-heroes’

President Nicolas Maduro blamed Spiderman and other ‘idolized super heroes’ of US television cartoons for the growing youth crime in Venezuela, which has become one of the most violent countries in Latinamerica.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:43 UTC
China will help Venezuela develop a huge oil field investing 14bn dollars

China’s hydrocarbons company Sinopec and Venezuela’s PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela SA) agreed investments to develop the Junin 1 oil field in the Orinoco oil strip, which will demand 14 billion dollars for a daily extraction of 200.000 barrels, said PDVSA president Rafael Ramírez currently in Beijing.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:39 UTC
Venezuela breaks three Mercosur human rights on human rights on abandoning IACHR

By Juan Francisco Alonso - El Universal - Venezuela is not only a full member of the bloc since July 2012, but it also holds the pro-tempore presidency. The entry into force of Venezuela's denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights, which implies its withdrawal from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court), breaches at least three regulations of Mercosur regional trade bloc.
Wednesday, September 11th 2013 - 22:06 UTC
Venezuela inflation running at annualized 45.4%; government “admits economic success debt”

Venezuela's annual inflation rate hit 45.4% in August, the central bank revealed this week, the highest in five years and the highest in the region, even as consumer price increases slowed from the previous month.
Tuesday, September 10th 2013 - 02:04 UTC
Special Mercosur parliament committee to help decide on Paraguay/Venezuela controversy

Mercosur parliament, Parlasur, resumed activities on Monday and the first thing it agreed on was to name a committee to help find a way out to the controversy between Paraguay and Venezuela. Although Venezuela holds the rotating chair of Mercosur, Paraguay refuses to acknowledge even its status as full member of the regional group.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:25 UTC
Blackout leaves half of Venezuela in the dark; Maduro claims an “electrical coup”

President Nicolas Maduro blamed Venezuela’s right-wing opposition for what he called “sabotage” and an ‘electrical coup’ that he said caused blackouts that plunged much of the country into chaos.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 01:37 UTC
Paraguay insists in reviewing all decisions adopted by Mercosur during its 14-month suspension

Foreign minister Eladio Loizaga said Paraguay will hold before Mercosur the same position it sustained at the Unasur summit in Suriname requesting that all decisions adopted during the last year and two months in which the country was suspended, are formally analyzed.
Monday, September 2nd 2013 - 12:35 UTC
Venezuela and Guyana agree to resume border dispute negotiations under UN umbrella

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ended a one-day visit to Guyana on Saturday in a move that strengthens the relationship between the two countries that have had a long standing border dispute. The two countries have agreed to ask the Jamaica-born academic, Professor Norman Girvan to continue as the United Nations (UN) Good Officer as they seek to settle their border dispute.