Venezuela oil-backed cryptocurrency to launch in days, government says

12-29-2017 • https://www.cnbc.com

Venezuela's cryptocurrency will launch within days and be backed by 5.3 billion barrels of oil worth $267 billion

Tired of Regional Critics, Venezuela Looks to Russia and China

12-28-2017 • https://www.nytimes.com, By ERNESTO LONDOÑO

Venezuela, which a decade ago aspired to be the axis of a new, left-leaning diplomatic and trade alliance in the Americas, is finding itself increasingly isolated in the hemisphere.

THIS Is Socialism

12-26-2017 • https://www.lewrockwell.com

Venezuelan children are STARVING to death as food must now be delivered under armed guard

Record number of Venezuelans fleeing to other parts of South America

12-22-2017 • http://www.miamiherald.com

On a crowded Colombian street packed with holiday shoppers and bathed in the sounds of Christmas music, Larry Centeno sat on the sidewalk and wept.

Flood of Venezuelans are fleeing depressed country. Here's where they're seeking refuge

12-15-2017 • https://www.usatoday.com, Simeon Tegel

LIMA, Peru -- It is 8 a.m. and the line of Venezuelan refugees outside the Interpol office already stretches to the end of the block.

Liberal, Conservative, and Libertarian Solutions for Venezuela

12-08-2017 • https://www.fff.org

Venezuela is in the throes of a deep political and economic crisis. The country's democratic system has produced two successive tyrannical dictators, Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. There are extreme shortages of food and other essential items. Pri

Venezuela making oil backed cryptocurrency as its economy implodes

12-04-2017 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

Venezuela is creating its own "petrocurrency," backed by reserves in oil, gas, gold and diamonds. It will enable Venezuela "to advance in monetary sovereignty, carry out its financial transactions to overcome the financial blockade," Maduro s

Venezuela Arrests Former Oil Minister And Ex-Head Of PDVSA

11-30-2017 • http://www.zerohedge.com

As OPEC is set to celebrate the extension of the cartel's oil production cut for another year in Vienna, Venezuela former-oil minister and the former head of the now defaulted state energy company PDVSA have no reasons to celebrate following their ov

Venezuela Officially Defaults; Annual Inflation 2689 Percent:

11-12-2017 • themaven.net by Mike Mish Shedlock

When Does the Military Take Over?

Venezuela Just 24 Hours Away From Formal Declaration Of Default

11-10-2017 • zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

Less than a week after Venezuela shocked the world by announcing it would proceed to restructure its massive external debt, even as it was within the grace period on hundreds of millions in unpaid interest expense,

Venezuela: Teenage Girls Turn to Prostitution to Fight Starvation

11-05-2017 • breitbart.com by Ben Kew

Growing numbers of young girls in Venezuela are selling their bodies for sex in exchange for food as the crisis-stricken country's humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

"Tomorrow Will Be Ugly": Venezuela To Restructure All Debt As Creditors Panic...

11-03-2017 • http://www.shtfplan.com, Tyler Durden

"Tomorrow Will Be Ugly": Venezuela To Restructure All Debt As Creditors Panic Over Imminent Default

The Time Has Come: Venezuela May Be In Default In Under 48 Hours

10-26-2017 • Zero Hedge

This past weekend, Venezuela failed to make $237 million in bond coupon payment, blaming "technical glitches" when in reality it simply did not have the money (or wish to part with it). Adding the $349 million in unpaid bond interest accumulated over

Venezuelans use bitcoin 'mining' to escape inflation

10-23-2017 • yahoo.com by Alex VASQUEZ

Inside a locked room in an office building in Caracas, 20 humming computers use their data-crunching power to mine bitcoins, an increasingly popular tool in the fight against Venezuela's hyperinflation.

Maduro faces financial nightmare in Venezuela -- just in time for Halloween

10-16-2017 • BY ANTONIO MARIA DELGA

With its coffers empty and its financial moves restricted by U.S. sanctions, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government is facing a nightmarish scenario with the approach of Halloween, when a series of debt payments totaling more than $3.5 b

Venezuela rapidly collapsing into another North Korea; nearly all flights halted, ...

10-12-2017 • http://www.dcclothesline.com

media controlled, citizens blocked from escaping... Natural News) It looks like more trouble in paradise for the socialist utopia of Venezuela. The list of issues includes food rationing and widespread starvation, skyrocketing unemployment, rampant

IMF Says Venezuela's Inflation Rate May Rise Beyond 2,300% in 2018

10-11-2017 • By Patricia Laya and Catarina Saraiva

Venezuela's triple-digit annual inflation rate is set to jump to more than 2,300 percent in 2018, the highest estimate for any country tracked by the International Monetary Fund.

Bitcoin Is Taking Over in Venezuela

09-30-2017 • https://fee.org, by Jon Buck

As the Bolivar continues to lose value, Venezuelans rely more and more on Bitcoin.

Venezuela Prepares For A War With The United States

09-29-2017 • http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo

The socialist nation of Venezuela has called on its military and asked them to prepare to go to war with the United States. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is bracing for war just days after the Trump administration banned Venezuelan officials

Venezuelan Women Turn To Prostitution To Afford Food

09-27-2017 • shtfplan.com by Mac Slavo

All twelve women who work at the "Show Malilo Night Club" brothel in Arauca, Colombia are from Venezuela.