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CARACAS, Venezuela - The political crisis in Venezuela is deepening as the opposition coalition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) is calling on citizens to defy the State of Emergency decreed by President Nicolás Maduro to "prevent a possible coup."

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday night increased the country’s minimum wage 30 percent, amid rampant inflation that has destroyed purchasing power in the crisis-hit country.

As of May 1, the minimum wage will jump to 15,051 bolivars per month – $1,505 at the strongest official exchange rate but just $13.50 at the black market rate.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) has opened polling stations across the country and citizens are filing through as the electoral body has opened the first stage of the opposition’s recall effort against President Nicolás Maduro. In the December 2015 election, Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) lost their majority in

CARACAS, Venezuela - The Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), the highest judicial body in Venezuela, has rejected the opposition's bid to change the presidential mandate from six years to four years, which would have ended President Nicolás Maduro's mandate early and called for elections in December of this year.

Venezuela's opposition won control of congress for the first time in 16 years on Dec. 7 as voters punished the socialist government for an economic crisis and insecurity in the oil-rich nation.

President Nicolas Maduro promptly accepted the defeat, a blow to his leadership and the "revolution" of "21st century socialism" launched by his late predecessor Hugo Chavez.

More than 20,000 Colombians have fled or been deported from venceremos-plagued Venezuela in an escalating border crisis, an AFP article quotes the United Nations as stating on Tuesday.
Some 1,500 Colombians have been sent across the border by the Venezuelan government since it began mass deportations late last month, in a less than …humanitarian move by Caracas’ socialists.

Score one for the “power of the media”, or rather, “the power of the high-profile media persona via social media”!

Less than two weeks after noted journalist Hugo Dixon lambasted the state of the (men’s) restroom at the Mykonos airport, Proto Thema returned to the “scene of the crime” over the weekend on the jet-setting Cyclades holiday island.

Colombia and Venezuela recalled their ambassadors on Aug. 27 for consultations, amid mounting tensions that began nearly a week ago when Caracas closed off their shared border.

Greece’s Secretary General for International Economic Relations Giorgos Tsipras signed an important energy agreement with the Boliviarian Republic of Venezuela in Caracas Saturday. During the official signing of the memorandum of understanding, Tsipras underlined the significance of the deal in strengthening cooperation between the two peoples.

Forget Europe, forget North America and the rest of the West, it’s the … Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro who issued a very warm message of solidarity to the “capital controlled” Greek people this week.