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A fire in a police station in Venezuela killed 68 people. That is what the authorities have announced. An investigation has started.

The Venezuelan town of Elorza starts Monday with a market festival, but there is no serious money in circulation anymore. The Venezuelan currency bolívar suffers from hyperinflation, which means that residents with suitcases would have to carry Venezuelan money. The municipality has therefore issued its own currency. It is named after the place and after the nineteenth-century freedom fighter Colonel José Andrés Elorza.

The Venezuelan lost 11 kilos on average in 2017 and 90 percent of the population of 30 million people now live in poverty. This has shown the latest study on the impact of the dramatic economic crisis and food shortages.

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has already named his new crypto petro a great success in advance. According to the head of state, there are already sold in the pre-sale for 600 million euros in petrol. He sees the virtual currency as a competitor of the American dollar. Petros will be publicly traded from next month.

Almost twenty civilians were killed in fighting in the east of Venezuela between soldiers and illegal miners. Venezuelan media reported on Monday that local authorities have confirmed acts of violence, but do not mention numbers of victims.

Spain declared the Venezuelan ambassador to persona non grata on Friday. That happened a day after Caracas had told the Spanish ambassador the guard.

Nicolás Maduro participates in the upcoming presidential elections in Venezuela. The current president of the country confirmed on Wednesday that he is standing for re-election and wants to go for a new term of office.

Venezuela will hold presidential elections by 30 April at the latest. That is what the pro-government legislative meeting determined on Tuesday. The socialist leader Nicolás Maduro will almost certainly go for re-election, while the opposition is in disarray and several figureheads are excluded from participation.

The rebellious Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Pérez died during a confrontation with security forces. Last year he gained worldwide fame with an action in which government buildings were bombarded with grenades from a stolen helicopter. Minister Nestor Reverol (Interior) announced the death of Pérez.

Venezuelan security forces have arrested at least five alleged insurgents after heavy firefights in a place outside of Caracas. It would be rebels associated with pilot Oscar Pérez, reported the state television. Last year he fired government buildings from a stolen helicopter.

Nearly two hundred Arubans have been trapped in Venezuela for days since the border blockade proclaimed by President Maduro. It concerns 187 people with a Dutch passport waiting for a solution of the border conflict.

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has accused a series of international news agencies worldwide campaigning against Venezuela. According to Maduro, the campaign against his country is led by the AFP, AP, EFE and Reuters news agencies.

The Venezuelan army is ready this weekend at several places in the country in and around supermarkets. According to the government of the country, this is necessary after shops have been looted several times in the past few days.

Venezuela has closed the border for 72 hours for all trade with Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. President Nicolas Maduro wants to prevent this in his country from being shipped scarce food to the ABC countries.

The highest Venezuelan diplomat in Brazil is no longer welcome. According to the BBC, the authorities declared Gerardo Delgado a persona non grata.

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has released 36 opponents of his regime from prison so that they can spend the holidays with their loved ones. According to a local human rights organization, it is part of an extended Christmas pardon.

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has announced his own cryptocurrency on Sunday. With the introduction of the 'petro', the socialist government leader wants to break through the financial blockade that has been raised against his oil-rich but crises-stricken country.

Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma Díaz arrived Saturday in Spain. The ex-mayor of Caracas had fled to Colombia from his home country a day earlier. He then boarded the plane to Europe.

An important opposition leader in Venezuela, former mayor of the capital Caracas Antonio Ledezma, fled the country on Friday. Colombian and Venezuelan media reported that he crossed the border to the Colombian town of Cúcuta.

The United States has imposed another ten Venezuelan top officials sanctions. These include ministers and the Venezuelan ambassador in Italy.

President Maduro's Socialist Party won the Venezuela regional elections. According to the government-elected constituency, the government party in 17 of the 23 Länder was the strongest. The Venezuelan opposition dispute the outcome and calls for street protests.

The Venezuelan opposition has denounced Wednesday's talks with President Nicolás Maduro's government to resolve the deep political crisis. The chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee of the Foreign Parliament, Luis Florido, said that the conditions for the talks in the Dominican Republic were not met.

The Venezuelan opposition invoked the help of Pope Franciscus to put an end to the serious political and economic crisis in the country. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church should urge the Socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro to accept humanitarian assistance and respect for human rights.

Despite the new sanctions imposed by Venezuela on Venezuela, the South American country has made $ 5 million (4.2 million) available to help victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

Venezuela held large-scale military exercises on Saturday and residents were called on the state television to sign up as a reservist. The military show was primarily intended to unite the divided country by eliminating, among other things, the United States as the great enemy.

The government of Maduro has undermined the news supply in Venezuela. The controversial leftist regime decided to remove the Colombian radio and television stations Caracol and RCN. On Thursday morning, the channels on all major cable networks in the capital of Caracas went to black.

The Venezuelan parliament, dominated by the opposition, has officially lost its power. The new constitutional council, nominated by a dubious election in favor of President Nicolás Maduro, adopted unanimously a unanimous resolution on Friday as a result of which Parliament finally got out of control.

At a prison robber in Puerto Ayacucho in southern Venezuela, at least 37 detainees have died.

Important South American countries are opposed to military intervention in Venezuela. The Mercosur organization, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay as members, said Saturday that dialogue and diplomacy were 'the only acceptable means' to promote democracy in Venezuela.

Venezuelan soldiers seem to have settled the Parliament building in Caracas. Opposition leader Stalin González said Tuesday that soldiers stopped him when he wanted to enter the building.