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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 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
The Wall Street Journal “It’s ironic that with DolarToday in Alabama, I do more damage to the government than I did as a military man in Venezuela,” says retired colonel Gustavo Díaz, who runs a website that tracks the black-market exchange of the bolivar.
Venezuela’s Nemesis Is a Hardware Salesman at a Home Depot in Alabama
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Gustavo Díaz also runs the DolarToday website, which tracks the black-market exchange of Venezuela's currency and sways prices of everything from rice to cars.
112 months ago
Refinery29 Meet Gustavo — an undocumented immigrant fighting to pay for college with no access to financial aid. http://r29.co/2eDUkrM
113 months ago
NPR Live now: Gustavo Dudamel leads the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela at Carnegie Hall.
Gustavo Dudamel Opens Carnegie Hall Season With 'The Rite Of Spring'
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The charismatic conductor first heard Stravinsky's rambunctious music when he was just 8.
113 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment Why has LA Phil music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel avoided discussing the subject of politics in his native Venezuela? Find out in this editorial he wrote in the Los Angeles Times >>
Gustavo Dudamel makes his case for keeping quiet on Venezuelan politics
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As the Los Angeles Philharmonic prepares for its season-opening gala concert on Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall , music director Gustavo Dudamel...
126 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
Los Angeles Times Entertainment Gustavo Dudamel can't stop talking about having just conducted Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony in Caracas with a newly organized youth orchestra. "For me," he insists, "it's all about the children. Working with the children is incredible. You also can Read more ... see the intellectual perception they can have."
For Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema remains a source of joy and hope
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Gustavo Dudamel's two-week stint at the Hollywood Bowl, which ends with a Mozart program on July 30, will be the culmination of his sixth season as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This summer is also the 10th anniversary of his U.S. c Read more ... onducting debut at the Bowl. He's familiar.
128 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment LA Phil music director Gustavo Dudamel and his wife are divorcing.
Gustavo Dudamel and wife file for divorce
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Gustavo Dudamel, the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic , and his wife, Eloisa Maturén, are seeking a divorce, according to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
132 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