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August 2, 2014 Most people think that the Venezuelan economy is a basket case on the verge of collapse, and that has been a widespread belief for most of the last decade. But the South American nation has only run into serious trouble in the past two years.

January 2, 2014 The dominant narrative on democracy and Latin America's "left turn" has no basis in public opinion data from the region, as the Latinobarómetro poll results show.

August 5, 2014 ... for Maduro’s performance have fallen to between 41- 47 percent. [i] Thus while approval for Maduro continues to ... path. [i] 41% = Datanalisis / May, Consultores 21 / June, 47% = Hinterlaces / July. While Hinterlaces polls tend to ...

March 7, 2014 ... just go out there when they are expecting Chavez”. Two hours had passed from the start time of the event and the ... the importance of the event to him so he would come.  Two hours went by and it was now nighttime, but no one had left. ... and in German, “Chávez geht nicht”. After four hours under the beautiful full moon of Vienna, anxious for ...

April 11, 2014 Nate Silver, who became famous for his use of polling data to accurately project U.S. elections, launched a new blog – FiveThirtyEight.com last month.  It’s been off to a rough start, Paul Krugman wrote soon after its launch, “[S]loppy and casual opining with a bit of data used, as the old saying goes, the way a drunkard uses a lamppost — for support, not illumination.” I leave it to the reader to decide whether the FiveThirtyEight article on March 17 by Dorothy Kronick on Venezuela fits this description.

November 6, 2014 ... government, brings together government ministers from 47 countries with 20 delegates from global civil society to ...

February 26, 2014 ... is consumed in Venezuela". Value of imports in 2012: US$47.310 billion. Value of imports in 2013: US$37.802 ( ...

March 27, 2014 ... started near the Tacoa-Boyaca electricity plant, within hours of each other. “The way that the event occurred makes ...

April 14, 2014 ... unprecedented event, the coup was overturned within 48 hours by a mass uprising of the people and soldiers loyal to ... Assembly, the courts, and the new constitution. Within hours the Bush administration announced Washington’s ... The coup plot began to unravel and within forty-seven hours Chavez had returned to power. The defeat of the coup by ...

November 17, 2014 ... a long loaf of bread. The record-winning dishes required hours of preparation and hundreds of kilos of ingredients, ...

September 22, 2014 ... Del Rincon's new contract. The announcement came just hours after the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced ...

September 2, 2014 ... West.”  The South American president’s statement came hours after Washington and Brussels warned of deeper ...

April 2, 2014 ... other educational institutions outside normal operating hours. More than 695,000 people have studied or are studying ...

March 27, 2014 ... will be published on the UNASUR website in the coming hours, according to the report. UNASUR voted to send a ... meeting with MUD leaders lasted more than three hours. Following the meeting, MUD head Ramon Guillermo ...

October 28, 2014 ... the camera, addressing the minister. He was shot dead just hours later by the CICPC. At the time, CICPC spokesperson ...