Venezuela! Te agarro en la bajadita: 8/25 WH levies sanctions on Maduro regime

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Leftist Ex-London Mayor Slams Venezuela Opposition ‘Elite’

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday criticized Venezuela’s right-wing opposition, saying they are “working to overthrow elected presidents through unconstitutional and violent means.”


“Hugo Chavez didn’t repress the former ruling elite in Venezuela and many members of the former ruling elite have stayed in the country,” he added, clearing up earlier reports claiming that he blamed the crisis in Venezuela on the former president’s unwillingness to kill “oligarchs.”

“He allowed them to live, to carry on. I suspect a lot of them are using their power and control over imports and exports to make it difficult and to undermine (President Nicolas) Maduro.”

Responding to previous “misrepresented” reports, Livingstone said he was “disappointed at the deliberate misreporting” of his comments.

“I have not said that Hugo Chavez should have killed anyone and nor would I ever advocate it,” he said.

“I even dispel this accusation in the very interview that is being extensively quoted.”

Livingston, a longtime supporter of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, also argued that the crisis is due, in part, to the government not heeding his advice on infrastructure investment, which he claims could have reduced the state's reliance on oil.

During his mayoral term, Livingstone visited Caracas, where he and the socialist government sealed a cut-price oil deal that supplied fuel for Transport for London.

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Leftist Ex-London Mayor Slams Venezuela Opposition ‘Elite’

 

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If the US is serious about applying pressure, why don't they go after Citgo's assets and freeze them. The Venezuelan government indirectly owns 51% of the company.

Terrible precedent. No multi-national company would support such an action. That lobby wouldn't allow it IMO.

 

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Police believe thieves steal Venezuela zoo animals to eat them

Police believe thieves steal Venezuela zoo animals to eat them

MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela authorities are investigating the theft of animals from a zoo in western state of Zulia that were likely snatched to be eaten, a further sign of hunger in a country struggling with chronic food shortages.

A police official said two collared peccaries, which are similar in appearance to boars, were stolen over the weekend from the Zulia Metropolitan Zoological Park in the sweltering city of Maracaibo near the Colombian border.

"What we presume is that they (were taken) with the intention of eating them," Luis Morales, an official for the Zulia division of the National Police, told reporters on Tuesday.

 

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Police believe thieves steal Venezuela zoo animals to eat them

Police believe thieves steal Venezuela zoo animals to eat them

MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela authorities are investigating the theft of animals from a zoo in western state of Zulia that were likely snatched to be eaten, a further sign of hunger in a country struggling with chronic food shortages.

A police official said two collared peccaries, which are similar in appearance to boars, were stolen over the weekend from the Zulia Metropolitan Zoological Park in the sweltering city of Maracaibo near the Colombian border.

"What we presume is that they (were taken) with the intention of eating them," Luis Morales, an official for the Zulia division of the National Police, told reporters on Tuesday.

Smh type of shyt that happens in Syria

 

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The Hill
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President Trump has explicitly exempted from sanctions Venezuela’s state-owned Citgo oil company, which is being represented by a lobbying firm founded by former Trump campaign advisers.


Venezuela’s Trump-linked state-owned oil company exempted from sanctions
The White House said the exemption is an attempt “to mitigate harm to the American and Venezuelan people.”
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