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Venezuela-Polar: friends again?
After yet another spat over Venezuela’s persistent food shortages, President Maduro and the country’s largest privately held company, Empresas Polar, might finally be making amends. Chávez’s successor...
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Venezuela’s Maduro: solids hit fan
For a country where consumers are often hard-pressed to find staples like milk or toilet paper, Venezuela certainly has no shortage of scandals. After last month’s accusations of electoral fraud and a...
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Venezuela’s toilet paper crisis
Hard times. Authorities made headlines in Venezuela on Thursday after they wiped a warehouse clean of its stock of toilet paper. While a lack of the most basic of necessities is probably no laughing...
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Blackberry’s Venezuela woes
It seems not even touch screens and a Grammy winning artist can save BlackBerry from a sales slump. Oddly enough though, the Canadian smartphone maker doesn’t blame its losses on Samsung Galaxies or...
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Venezuela: let there be dollars
The Venezuelan toilet paper shortage story says a lot about economic management in a country where the greenback fetches five times its official value on the parallel market. While Venezuelans have...
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Venezuela: first no toilet paper, now no power
All in all, it’s been a summer of “no” for many Venezuelans. No chicken, no sugar, no toilet paper and now, no power. Half of Venezuela was without power on Tuesday, including much of its capital,...
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