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AP Images A Chinese national, living in Venezuela, looks for his passport in the remains of the building where he maintains a home and business in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, that were looted by demonstrators the night before. Hundreds of Read more ... police and soldiers have been deployed to the streets of Ciudad Bolivar, where weekend violence left dozens of businesses destroyed or damaged after massive looting over the sudden decision to yank the 100-bolivar, the most widely used currency note from circulation. #APPhoto by Alejandro Cegarra
111 months ago
The Wall Street Journal The Venezuelan government deployed 3,000 troops to the southeastern state of Bolivar on Monday after people desperate over the government’s elimination of much of the country’s currency looted stores and homes over the weekend.
Venezuela Deploys Troops After Weekend Riots
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The unrest took an especially heavy toll on Chinese immigrants, who own many of the grocery stores in the capital, Ciudad Bolívar, and nearby towns.
111 months ago
Yahoo Finance Dozens of businesses were destroyed.
Looting leaves stores in ruins in Venezuela's Ciudad Bolivar as economic crisis continues
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Hundreds of people in Venezuela's Ciudad Bolivar are massing outside the few supermarkets that survived massive looting over the weekend, waiting for them to open.
111 months ago
NPR Venezuela's president blames the currency phase-out on "an international sabotage." He's also extended border closures with Brazil and Colombia.
After Outbreak Of Looting, Venezuela Delays Phase-Out Of Large Currency
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In a short TV appearance Saturday night, Maduro told his nation that 500-bolivar notes that are meant to replace the 100-bolivar currency are delayed.
111 months ago
The Wall Street Journal The government of Venezuela has decided to extend the use of the 100-bolivar note until Jan. 2, following protests and looting by people angry at being left largely without cash.
Venezuela Extends Use of 100-Bolivar Note to Jan. 2
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Civil unrest flared around the South American country following Mr. Maduro’s surprise move earlier in the week to void Venezuela’s 100-bolivar note.
111 months ago
laSexta l Noticias Daesh decapita a 135 personas y secuestra a otras 400 en la ciudad siria de Deir el Zur [▶ con imágenes de VICE News ]
Daesh secuestra a unos 400 civiles en la ciudad siria de Deir el Zur - laSexta
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Al menos 400 civiles, muchos de ellos familiares de efectivos de las fuerzas del régimen sirio, han sido secuestrados por el grupo terrorista Estado Islámico en la ciudad de Deir el Zur, en el este de Siria. Según informó el Observatorio Sirio de Read more ... Derechos Humanos, los yihadistas raptaron a estas per…
122 months ago
VICE News "I could have been one of them that night, lying there dead."
If Ciudad Juarez Is 'Back,' Why Haven’t the Killings Stopped?
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Journalist Luis Chaparro remembers friends who were killed in the violence in Ciudad Juarez — in a war between cartels and citizens.
125 months ago
The Economist Venezuela’s currency, the bolívar, is worth a thousandth of what it was in 1999, when Hugo Chávez came to power http://econ.st/1InqluG
Crackers in Caracas
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THIS month Venezuela’s currency, the bolívar, passed a melancholy milestone: its value on the black market is now a hundredth of what it is supposed to be at the...
128 months ago
NBC News It's in the center of the American Heartland but Bolivar, Missouri, got its name from a Latin American general and liberator admired by early settlers.
Hispanic Heartland: Bolivar, Missouri, Where Two Continents Met
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BOLIVAR, MISSOURI -- On July 5th, 1948, the drum majorette forgot about the soupy Missour-ah humidity: who could think about that when you were...
134 months ago
Escuela de Arquitectura ¿PUEDES SABER DE QUÉ CIUDAD SE TRATA TAN SÓLO MIRANDO EL MAPA DE SUS CALLES?
El periódico Washington Post nos propone un juego de cultura arquitectónica. Nos presentan diez mapas de ciudades de Estados Unidos y del resto del mundo. Cada mapa mu Read more ... estra todas las calles de la ciudad. No hay ninguna otra información de identificación. No hay etiquetas ni terreno.
Como sabes, la estructura urbana de una ciudad puede decirnos mucho sobre su historia y su futuro: cómo los planes urbanos han ido construyendo la ciudad y cuáles son sus prioridades en los próximos años. Algunas ciudades crecieron y evolucionaron orgánicamente, mientras que otros se planifican meticulosamente bloque por bloque.
134 months ago