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Venezuela news round up (3 articles)
« on: August 21, 2019, 12:37:32 am »
One of their junior baseball teams were in the news. But to the stories:


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Fears grow of Venezuela malnutrition time-bomb
Michael Stott in Caracas and Gideon Long in Maracaibo, Venezuela

The graffiti scrawled across a wall in Caracas is short but heartfelt. “Tengo hambre,” it reads. “I am hungry”.

It is a cry increasingly heard across Venezuela. As socialist president Nicolás Maduro and western-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó battle for the country’s future amid an economic collapse that has sparked severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine, millions of people are going hungry for extended periods and risking long-term damage to their health, humanitarian organisations have warned.

The Trump administration’s decision earlier this month to impose a near total economic embargo on the country was likely to make the crisis worse, according to Latin American civil society groups.

Read more at: https://www.ft.com/content/b6459434-b531-11e9-8cb2-799a3a8cf37b

This following has been in the pipeline for awhile, it could be just a stall tactic:

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In Venezuela talks, Maduro allies said they would consider fresh elections: sources

CARACAS (Reuters) - Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had discussed holding a presidential election in the coming months during talks to find a breakthrough in the country’s political crisis, four sources told Reuters on Monday.

Opposition politicians will travel to Washington to speak to U.S. officials this week, the sources said.

Maduro and a delegation representing opposition leader Juan Guaido have been meeting in Barbados as part of talks to resolve a political stalemate in the struggling OPEC nation that is suffering from a hyperinflationary economic collapse.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKCN1V91SF

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U.S. talks secretly to Venezuela socialist party boss
JOSHUA GOODMAN

The U.S. has made secret contact with Venezuela’s socialist party boss as close allies of President Nicolás Maduro’s inner circle seek guarantees they won’t face prosecution for alleged abuses and crimes if they cede to growing demands to remove him, according to a senior Trump administration official.

Diosdado Cabello, who is considered the most-powerful man in Venezuela after Maduro, met last month in Caracas with someone who is in close contact with the Trump administration, the official told The Associated Press. A second meeting is in the works but has not yet taken place.

The AP is withholding the intermediary's name and details of the encounter with Cabello out of concern the person could suffer reprisals. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they aren't authorized to discuss the talks, which are still preliminary. It's not clear whether the talks have Maduro's approval or not.

Read more at: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-nw-venezuela-secret-talks-20190819-z4oj3fcw3rf6jhqg5xxjgs4ppy-story.html