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Colombia Police Crackdown on Campesino Protest
Members of a passion fruit producers’ alliance near Buga, Colombia.Photo Charlotte Kesl (World Bank) Colombian police forces violently repressed a campesino protest in Colombia’s north-east yesterday.For the past eight days, more than 2,000 small-scale farmers in the municipality of Tib have been demanding the gradual substitution of ';illegal'; crops for sustainable ...
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Venezuela’s Debt Rating Cut by SP Amid Post-Chavez Polarization
Venezuela 's credit rating was cut by Standard & Poor's, which cited concern that division within President Nicolas Maduro's administration may impair the government's ability to shore up a sputtering economy. S&P lowered the rating to B, five levels below investment grade and in line with countries including Ecuador ...
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Venezuelan president meets pope amid political tensions seeks canonization for doctor
Pope Francis holds a booklet of the Aparecida Document, a statement of the Latin American Bishop's conference, which he will give to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a gift on the occasion of their private audience at the Vatican, Monday, June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Andreas Solaro, ...
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister in FAO Defends Food as Human Right
By Masiel Fernandez Bolaos, special correspondenceRome, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua asserted today here that food is a human right and not merchandise, different from what capitalism has established. The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our Americas (ALBA) have proven that when food is not considered business, as capitalism has ...
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Venezuela Eagerly Awaiting Food Aid from “Allied Countries”
Share/Bookmark Venezuela is set to receive 760,000 tonnes of food aid from neighbouring allies to address its national food crisis. Food Minister Flix Osorio detailed that the fresh supplies will be used ...
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Pope Meets with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Pope Francis received President Nicolas Maduro Moros, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, this morning at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. President Maduro later met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, who was accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with ...
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