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After renewed sanctions and ahead of election, Venezuela looks to increase tax take
Reuters· 20 hours agoThe Venezuelan government is aiming to make up for the return of U.S. oil sanctions by raising tax...
Venezuela’s Maduro Increases Minimum Wage to $130 Ahead of Vote
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Venezuela will increase workers’ monthly income by 30% as Nicolás Maduro seeks to...
The Real Cost of Reimposing Sanctions on Venezuela
Foreign Policy Magazine· 17 hours agoAlmost a decade after the Obama administration first levied individual sanctions against the Maduro government in 2015, sanctions on Venezuela have...
Venezuela’s dictator plans a sham election, but recent events may ruin his scheme | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBut Venezuela has a much better-organized opposition than Cuba, and has a less diversified economy...
Podcast explores Venezuela-to-Chicago migrant pipeline
Axios· 7 days agoZoom in: Bergen spoke with Venezuelan migrants, policy experts, city officials and local volunteers to gain their insights. U.S. sanctions aimed at weakening Venezuela ...
Venezuelan Opposition Politician Warns of Crypto Use for Money Laundering
PYMNTS.com· 4 days agoA Venezuelan opposition politician, Leopoldo Lopez, and a national security leader at New York-based...
Stories of resilience: Bees make a comeback, and how immigrants lift economies
The Christian Science Monitor· 17 hours agoSince 2006, steep winter losses of worker bees have spurred scientists and the U.S. government to try to understand colony collapse disorder. Honeybees pollinate four-fifths ...
Sanctions Are for Losers
Reason.com via AOL· 13 hours agoFurthermore, Nasr and his co-authors contend that sanctions have driven the Iranian government to adopt more defensive and aggressive postures—the very...
New Leaders Turn the Region’s Geopolitics on Its Head
Foreign Policy Magazine· 7 days agoThe highlights this week: Argentina and Colombia chart new foreign-policy paths, Venezuela’s...
The Election-Devaluation Cycle | by Jeffrey Frankel - Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate· 4 days agoThe proposition that major currency devaluations are more likely to come immediately after, rather...
