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Venezuela opposition calls strike, Trump threatens ‘actions’

On: July 18, 2017

Caracas: Venezuela’s opposition called Monday for a 24-hour nationwide strike to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to drop plans to rewrite the constitution while the United States threatened “strong and swift economic actions” against his socialist administration if it ignores the will of voters in a referendum. President Donald Trump joinedContinue Reading

In Venezuela, garbage dumps have become places to eat

By: Matters India

On: May 11, 2017

In: International

Caracas: Garbage dumps have become “a regular place for people to eat” in Venezuela, says a local priest lamenting the nation’s increasingly dire economic and political crisis. “There’s a lot of suffering,” Fr. Victor Salomon, a priest who works in the Archdiocese of Caracas, told CNA. “This has been somethingContinue Reading

Jesuits elect first Latin-American general

By: Matters India

On: October 14, 2016

In: Profiles

The Pope and the Black Pope now come from Latin AmericaContinue Reading