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Venezuela’s Guaido calls for emergency government to manage impact of coronavirus Maduro

Venezuela’s Guaido calls for emergency government to manage impact of coronavirus

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela should form an emergency government made up of the opposition and some members of the ruling Socialist Party to receive foreign aid needed to confront the coronavirus outbreak, opposition leader Juan Guaido said in an interview on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's National Assembly President and opposition…
bubmag
March 30, 2020
Media struggles to justify cruelty to Iran and Venezuela amid spreading pandemic Maduro

Media struggles to justify cruelty to Iran and Venezuela amid spreading pandemic

A recent Associated Press article (New York Times, 3/17/20) headlined "IMF Rejects Maduro's Bid for Emergency Loan to Fight Virus" declared: The request is an about-face for Maduro, who for years refused to share economic data with the Washington-based lender and just last month condemned it as a tool of U.S. imperialism. In…
bubmag
March 29, 2020
Links 3/28/2020 Maduro

Links 3/28/2020

notabanker March 28, 2020 at 7:11 am I was wondering if that United Airlines story would make the links here. Literally hours after they get the bailout passed, the CEO is saying it’s not enough and workers will go as soon as the October deadline is passed. This is all…
bubmag
March 28, 2020
Exclusive: Ex-Venezuelan general charged with drug trafficking surrenders to DEA Maduro

Exclusive: Ex-Venezuelan general charged with drug trafficking surrenders to DEA

CARACAS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents on Friday remanded in custody retired Venezuelan general Cliver Alcala, three people familiar with the matter said, after he agreed to work with prosecutors who charged him, President Nicolas Maduro and other top officials with drug trafficking. Alcala surrendered to DEA agents…
bubmag
March 27, 2020