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Venezuela tries an environmental rebrand, but critics aren’t buying it
Mongabay
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August 19, 2025
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last month unveiled the Gran Misión Madre Tierra, or “Great Mother Earth Mission,” designed to address Venezuela’s climate emergency. The mission mandates the creation of new reforestation efforts, climate...
Venezuela Captures Terrorists Involved in Caracas Bomb Plot
teleSUR
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Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello shows the seized weapons, Aug. 19, 2025. X/ @ConElMazoDando August 19, 2025 Hour: 1:36 pm On Tuesday, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello informed that authorities captured Carlos Arrieta (aka El...
Venezuela Congratulates Vietnam on Anniversary of August Revolution
teleSUR
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Ho Chi Minh. X/ @PrensaLatina_cu August 19, 2025 Hour: 11:52 am On Tuesday, the Venezuelan government sent a message to Vietnam commemorating the triumph of the August Revolution. RELATED: Vietnam Rises $4.8 Million in Donations to Support Cuba...
Government declares Venezuelan cartel a terrorist threat as Ecuador aligns with U.S. stance
The Cuenca Dispatch
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August 19, 2025
Members receive weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Start your subscription today for just $1 for the first month. (Regular subscription options $4.99/month or $42/year/) Click here to subscribe. Ecuador intensifies...
Bolivia Runoff Shakes Markets as Pro-Business Rivals Vie for Mandate
LatinAmerican Post
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August 19, 2025
In a stunning first-round upset, two pro-market rivals now face off to lead Bolivia out of its most profound economic crisis in a generation—shaking off a twenty-year socialist grip and setting the stage for a runoff that could redraw alliances...
U.S. to deploy warships near Venezuela to fight drug cartels
NBC Connecticut
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August 19, 2025
The U.S. is planning to deploy three warships near Venezuela as it ramps up its fight against drug cartels at sea, a source briefed on the matter told NBC News. The ships are the USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson, the source said....
El fiscal Karim Khan se aparta de la investigación Venezuela 1 de la CPI, tras señalamientos por posible conflicto de interés
KESQ-TV - California
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August 19, 2025
Por CNN en Español El fiscal Karim Kahn presentó formalmente un escrito en el que se aparta de la investigación de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) sobre posibles crímenes de lesa humanidad en Venezuela, cumpliendo la orden de la Sala de...
Is Argentina vs Venezuela Lionel Messi’s Final Goodbye in Buenos Aires? What We Know Today
Yardbarker
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August 19, 2025
The drumbeat is growing louder. Reports in Argentina and abroad suggest that Argentina’s September qualifier against Venezuela in Buenos Aires could be the last official international match Lionel Messi plays on home soil. The fixture is slated...
Majority of drugs in Guyana originate from Venezuela for transshipment to North America, West Africa, Europe – CANU
I News Guyana
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August 19, 2025
Director of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh has revealed that majority of the narcotics in Guyana originate from Venezuela for transshipment to other parts of the world such as North America, West Africa and Europe. Speaking...
Majority of illegal drugs enter Guyana from Venezuela, transshipped to Europe and West Africa – CANU Head
News Room
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August 19, 2025
Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), James Singh, has revealed that the majority of narcotics entering Guyana originate from Venezuela, with much of it destined for international markets in Europe and West Africa. Speaking on this week’s...
There is no future in politics of victimhood
The Times
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Multi-ethnic societies are hard. I’m not saying they should be hard. To be quite honest, people’s failure to live and let live baffles me. I’m just saying that they are hard. There are great advantages to pluralism; of course there are. Advantages...
World News | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to Mobilise 4.5 Million Militia Fighters After US Raises Bounty
Latestly
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August 19, 2025
Caracas [Venezuela], August 19 (ANI): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced plans to deploy more than four million militia fighters in response to what he called new "threats" from the United States, after Washington raised a bounty...
Venezuela’s Fight for Justice
Al Jazeera
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August 19, 2025
A lawyer fights to free Venezuelans imprisoned after a crackdown on political dissent. The number of political prisoners in Venezuela reached its highest point following protests against Nicolas Maduro’s controversial re-election in July 2024....
US destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels
WTOP - District Columbia
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August 19, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of… WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as...
US Human Rights Report on Venezuela Doesn’t Pass the Mirror Test
Dissident Voice
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August 19, 2025
by Roger D. Harris / August 19th, 2025 The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article,...
Venezuela deploying millions of militia after "outlandish threats" by U.S.
CBS News
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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to "outlandish threats" by the United States after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest to $50 million and launched anti-drug...
Trump Sends Military Squadron To Venezuela's Shores After Doubling The Bounty On Maduro's 'head'
Charter 97
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2 Illustrative photo U.S. forces will be deployed in the coming days. Three U.S. guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham and USS Sampson, 4,000 sailors and Marines, a P-8 reconnaissance aircraft and an attack submarine are headed...
Tomahawk-Armed U.S. Destroyers To Arrive Near Venezuela On Counter-Cartel Mission
SouthFront
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August 19, 2025
The USS Gravely (DDG 107) sails alongside the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during maneuvering exercises with the Finnish Navy in the Baltic Sea, May 16, 2022. (U.S. Navy, by MC3 Taylor Parker) Three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the United States...
Venezuela’s Maduro to mobilise millions in militia over US ‘threats’
Al Jazeera
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August 19, 2025
The move comes after the US doubles the bounty for Maduro’s arrest to $50m and deploys three warships in the Caribbean. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has pledged to mobilise more than four million militia fighters in response to new United...
Bolivia election: voters bring two decades of leftist politics to an end
The Conversation
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August 19, 2025
A seismic political shift has taken place in Bolivia. The country’s leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party, which has dominated Bolivian politics for nearly 20 years, was voted out of power in a general election on August 17. Centre-right...