Maduro's decree includes wider executive powers to control the budget, companies and the currency amid a severe economic crisis in the OPEC nation. ^

[150] The State Department also alleges that Maduro expelled authorized foreign companies from the mining sector to allow officials to exploit Venezuela's resources for their own gain, using unregulated miners under the control of Venezuela's armed forces.[150]

Not surprisingly, President Maduro did not take kindly to his rival's move, which he condemned as a ploy by the US to oust him.

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El 20 do mayo de 2018, las elecciones presidenciales fueron convocadas prematuramente y Maduro fue reelecto por un periodo adicional de 6 años. Los líderes opositores fueron encarcelados, exiliados o inhabilitados de modo a participar, pelo hubo observación internacional, y se ejercieron tácticas en las de que se sugería a los electores que podían perder sus trabajos este ayudas sociales si pelo votaban por Maduro.

"We did it!" Musk wrote in a celebratory email to the company. "What an incredible job by an amazing team."

Reuters Panamá diz que voos estãeste operando normalmente depois de que avião para Venezuela foi bloqueado

bloqueio por 31 toneladas de ouro que pertenciam à Venezuela e de que estavam armazenadas em bancos ingleses;

In Rio de Janeiro, about 20 protesters parked their cars and motorcycles at the entrance to a key bridge linking the vlogdolisboa city to a neighboring area across a bay. Waving large Brazilian flags, they shouted for an investigation into the results and stopped traffic for more than an hour before moving on.

Venezuela’s position in the world became more precarious during the second decade of the 21st century as a result of the controversial rule of revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez, a significant decline in the fortunes of its petroleum industry, and the increasing authoritarianism of Chávez’s successor, Nicholás Maduro.

Largely in response to declining world oil prices, Venezuela’s economy continued to struggle in 2015, with GDP tumbling and inflation further ballooning. Seemingly anxious to shift attention away from the country’s domestic woes, Maduro’s government was quick to focus on border-related disputes with neighbours Guyana and Colombia.

There were the huge queues at polling stations, but only tiny amounts of people being let in at one time.

The South American country has been caught in a downward spiral for years with growing political discontent further fuelled by skyrocketing hyperinflation, power cuts, and shortages of food and medicine.

Massive street protests, which erupted in response to the court’s attempt to dissolve the National Assembly and continued in April when Capriles was banned from running for public office for 15 years, became almost daily occurrences over the coming weeks. As the opposition’s defiance escalated, violent clashes between protesters and security forces resulted in more than 60 deaths and injured more than 1,200 people by early June.