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Venezuela Buckles Under Massive Power, Communications Outage
Venezuela’s worst power and communications outage on Friday deepened a sense of isolation and decay, endangering hospital patients, forcing schools and businesses to close and cutting people off from their families, friends and the outside world. While electricity returned to some parts of Caracas nearly 24 hours after lights, phones and the internet stopped working, the blackout was another harsh...
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Venezuelan Showdown Moves to UN as Dueling Presidents Dig In
The United States urged all nations Saturday to support Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido while Russia accused the Trump administration of attempting “to engineer a coup d’etat” against President Nicolas Maduro — a reflection of the world’s deep divisions over the crisis in the embattled Latin American country. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the U.N. Security Council at...
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Dueling Venezuela Leaders Dig in Defending Presidency Claims
The Venezuelan opposition leader who has declared himself interim president vowed Friday he would remain on the streets until the South American country has a transitional government, while President Nicolas Maduro dug in and accused his opponents of orchestrating a coup. In dueling press conferences, Juan Guaido urged followers to stage another mass protest next week while Maduro pushed his...
