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CARACAS Venezuela is preparing a new cryptocurrency called «petro gold» that will be backed by precious metals, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday, a day after launching an oil - backed token that has been panned as a pipe dream by blockchain experts.

Our response to great problems is great solutions and good will,» President Nicolás Maduro said in a televised launch event held Tuesday night in his presidential palace with media and investors.

Venezuela followed India however, President Nicolas Maduro said Venezuelans don't have to stop using 100 bolivar notes until 20 January 2017 as there is a delay in the printing of the new notes.

So has Rep. Mario Diaz - Balart, a Miami Republican who in February called López «one of many pro-democracy members of the opposition... that have been imprisoned for running afoul of the corrupt Maduro regime.»

Venezuelans are starving because of Maduro's communist policies.

In a move that the government hopes will bring much needed economic relief, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced earlier this week that the...

This was the assessment from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in early December, as he officially announced his campaign to launch a national cryptocurrency.

His quick acceptance of the results eased tensions in the volatile nation where the latest presidential election, in 2013, narrowly won by Maduro, was bitterly disputed and where anti-government protests last year led to 43 deaths.

The Cryptocurrency craze that has swept the world is now being looked at by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a savior to its economy.

Many Venezuelans blame the economic chaos on Maduro, who lacks the charisma and political skills of Chavez, his mentor who was Venezuela's leader for 14 years before his death from cancer in 2013.

Venezuela's President Nicholas Maduro announced during an annual address that pregnant women will soon be awarded a small cash subsidy.

«There's obviously the threat [of sanctions] against others, but... it's surprising, to me at least, how few people have broken with Maduro,» he said during the AS / COA event.

For Maduro in particular, who enjoys his party's support only insomuch as Chávez chose him as his successor, any move seen as a concession to the opposition and «capitalist enemies» would be political suicide.

President Nicolas Maduro also considers Petro as a way to bypass economic sanctions imposed by the U.S.

Turkey's potential consideration of launching its own cryptocurrency also arrives just a few days after Venezuela has seen the country's own token sale, through which its president Nicolas Maduro claimed the country has netted $ 735 million on the first day of the pre-sale.

The result could also embolden government foes to seek a recall election against Maduro in 2016 if they garner the nearly 4 million signatures needed to trigger the referendum.

The Pope has issued an appeal to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after he installed a constituent assembly in a move that his critics say marks the beginning of a dictatorship in the country.

Since 2013, when Nicolás Maduro took power after the death of Hugo Chávez, the socialist country has struggled with skyrocketing inflation, food and medicine shortages, a shrinking economy and rising violence and corruption.

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Oven - baked platanos maduros — sweet plantains — add an authentic touch.

President Nicolas Maduro hopes Venezuela's own digital currency will help it make financial transactions and get around western sanctions.

In November, President Nicholas Maduro called business owners in Venezuela «barbaric capitalist parasites» and accused them of price gouging.

Moments after the National Electoral Council's televised announcement, state television carried images of Mr. Maduro, holding his wife's hand and flanked by several of the more powerful members of his government, walking down a narrow lane outside the presidential palace, smiling and waving.

«The goal is to change the conduct, the character of the Venezuelan government under Maduro.

CARACAS, May 3 - Venezuela said on Thursday it arrested 11 top executives of the country's leading private bank Banesco for allegedly hurting the OPEC nation's ailing currency, the latest move against the private sector that unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro blames for a deep economic crisis.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro recently announced plans to introduce a cryptocurrency dubbed the «petro».

Maduro stated recently that «I going...

While Maduro lacks the fiery rhetoric of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, he has inherited many of his successes, and this is one of the most important.

The first day of presale of Venezuelan El Petro has attracted $ 735 million, while the president of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro orders large national corporations to support the cryptocurrency.

Maduro explained that he is going to to charge in petro for all the fuel sold at the border between Venezuela and Colombia.

Roadtown Wholesale Trading Ltd. (RTW) is a good example of how a company can grow from humble beginnings into a leader in the food and beverage business, Executive Chairman Delma Maduro says.

President Maduro did not reveal too many details regarding the impending launch.

In a television interview from Havana, Mr Maduro said Mr Chavez was «conscious» of his condition after his fourth operation in his battle with cancer, and said he had shown occasional signs of improvement.

Subsequently, Advocate General Maduro in his Opinion of January 2008 took up the cudgels for the autonomy of the Union legal order and for the effective protection of fundamental rights.

Otto Maduro, Religion and Social Conflicts (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1982), 106.

The move comes at a time when Maduro's socialist government is in the midst of a crackdown on domestic freedoms and Caracas» financial transactions have been hamstrung by Western sanctions.

It is imperative for the continuation of Venezuela's socialist revolution that Maduro wins the election.

In 2016, President Maduro declared the Arco Minero; today thousands of indigenous people are being impacted by a mining boom that endangers their lives and culture.

«If Maduro loses the election in April — or is forced out of power — then petros would probably be made illegitimate,» Colvin said.

This month, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro went as far as to announce a plan to create «Petro,» a sovereign virtual currency which he claims can be used to help dig the country out of its current economic crisis.

Vice President Mike Pence will pressure Maduro's government in a speech Wednesday to a session of the Organization of American States, his office said.

Following on the sale of the Petro, Maduro reportedly plans to launch a gold - backed cryptocurrency next week.

In making the proposal, Maduro added that banks that build mining farms could increase the benefits of their employees.

Although Maduro lacks Chávez's charisma, many expect him to prevail in the coming election.

Soon after President Maduro made an announcement to recruits its Venezuelan citizens to build crypto mining farms, Venezuela is in the news again.

«Next week I'm going to launch the petro gold, backed by gold, which is even more powerful, that will strengthen the petro,» Vice quoted Maduro as saying in a Wednesday speech.

A stiff official who rose through the National Guard, Quevedo fired many long - term employees upon arrival and urged remaining ones to denounce any of their colleagues who oppose Maduro.