Venezuela: Maduro creates ‘socialist enterprise system’, collectives protest food giant’s hoarding [2016]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the creation of a National Productive Corporation on February 22, as part of a new socialist enterprise system aimed at coordinating efforts among existing state, communal and mixed firms. Speaking from the Ana Maria Campo Petrochemical Complex in Zulia state, the socialist leader said the new entity would be tasked with unifying
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AP Exclusive: Anti-Maduro coalition grew from secret talks

AP Exclusive: Anti-Maduro coalition grew from secret talks, January 25, 2019

By JOSHUA GOODMAN, LUIS ALONSO LUGO and ROB GILLIES

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The coalition of Latin American governments that joined the U.S. in quickly recognizing Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president came together over weeks of secret diplomacy that included whispered messages to activists under constant surveillance and a high-risk foreign trip by the opposition leader challenging President Nicolas Maduro for power, those involved in the talks said.

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