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12 hrs ago | Deseret News

The winners and the losers: Venezuela, terrorism, Spider Man

Volunteer Elana Johnson helps build a garden for veterans at the Valor Apartments in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 16, 2013.

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT

17 hrs ago | Indymedia.ie

August 2013 Delegation to Venezuela: The Revolution Continues! [1]

While the mainstream media speculates about the future of the Bolivarian Revolution since the passing of Hugo Chavez, for the Venezuelan people, there is no question.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Venezuela, Travel, Venezuela Travel, 9, Agriculture, Science

18 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

Dissident ex-general released in Venezuela

Venezuelan authorities have released a dissent ex-general who was jailed on charges of inciting unrest after the country's disputed presidential election.

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Fri May 17, 2013

USA Today

Roiled over rolls: No toilet paper has Venezuelans fuming

LA VICTORIA, Venezuela - Soraida Gil says she can live without coffee but draws the line at toilet paper.

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Related Topix: South America, Alvaro Uribe, World News, Colombia

Seattle Times

Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums

Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

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Related Topix: World News, Venezuela, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Riot

The American Spectator

The View From the Other Side

Just as the American international security establishment - DoD, CIA, State - maintains continuing assessments of nations considered potential or actual adversaries, these countries do the same in respect to the United States.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Navy

BBC News

Costa Rican president in jet scandal

Revelations that Costa Rica's president used the jet of a Colombian with alleged links to drugs trafficking have led to three high-profile resignations.

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Related Topix: Costa Rica, Central America, World News

Ananova

Venezuela Hit By Toilet Paper Shortage Crisis

Venezuelans have been hit by a chronic toilet paper shortage leading to empty supermarket shelves and long queues to snap up the remaining rolls.

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Related Topix: World News, Venezuela, Business News

Thu May 16, 2013

The Miami Herald

Now Venezuela is running out of toilet paper

First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities - toilet paper.

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Related Topix: World News, Venezuela,

Wed May 15, 2013

Babalu Blog

Spanish actors escapes 'savage capitalism' of Europe for...

Spanish actor Willy Toledo has announced he will leave Spain and its "savage capitalism" to seek refuge in the utopian paradise that is the Castro regime's Cuba.

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Related Topix: Guillermo Toledo, Cuba, World News, Central America, US News, Conservative Political News

Reuters

Costa Rica president's private jet use prompts investigation

Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla came under pressure on Tuesday after the government admitted she had used a private jet owned by a foreign oil company, prompting an investigation by the attorney general's office.

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Related Topix: Costa Rica, World News, Central America, Laura Chinchilla, Wedding, Civil Aircraft, Aircraft, Cessna Citation CJ3, Cessna Aircraft

Newsday

The food shortage dividing Venezuela

A woman walks out with a bag in her hands. "There is milk!" she says enthusiastically, much to the delight of the other customers.

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Tue May 14, 2013

Apex Herald

American democracy still a revolutionary idea

There was a pretty remarkable moment last week at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Bill Clinton, History in the News, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News

Log Cabin Democrat

Editorials: Venezuela, China and Europe

Many Americans reasonably detect, and lament, a decline of civility in our political process.

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Related Topix: Prison, Opinion

Babalu Blog

Anti-Israel Maduro Claims He Has Jewish Ancestry

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed accusations that his country's ties with Iran are fostering anti-Semitism in Latin America, explaining that Caracas is critical of Israel's policies, not the Jewish people.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Venezuela, US News, Conservative Political News

BBC News

Venezuela opposition TV channel sold

Venezuelan opposition TV channel Globovision has been sold and will change its editorial line, according to a statement published on its website.

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PanArmenian Network

Maduro sends troops to fight crime in Caracas streets

PanARMENIAN.Net - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, May 13, sent some 3,000 troops into the streets of the capital of Caracas to crack down on rampant crime, Reuters reported.

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Related Topix: World News, Venezuela, South America

Mon May 13, 2013

The Daily Star

Carlos the Jackal appeals French life term

PARIS: Carlos the Jackal, the Marxist militant once ranked among the world's most wanted criminals, launched an appeal Monday against a life sentence for bomb attacks that killed 11 people three decades ago.

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Bellingham Herald

Venezuela food maker denies blame for shortages

Empresas Polar chief executive Lorenzo Mendoza gives a news conference at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 13, 2013.

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Related Topix: Venezuela, World News

The Georgia Straight

B.C. Liberals try to whip up red scare

Maybe it was because of the great date I went on last night, but I had a dream about you where I met you again.

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