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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Saturday that the banknote worth 100 Bolivar (almost 10 million) still has not been abolished and until January 2 remains valid.

In Venezuela Friday broken in several places protests and people beaten to looting after the government had declared at breakneck speed all banknotes of 100 bolivar invalid. The predictions of several economists who had warned of chaos, thus came.

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Venezuelan authorities have seized nearly four million toys. Also arrested the army according to the BBC two executives of the company that the goods would be withheld.

Venezuelan women stabbing in droves across the border to sell their hair in Colombia. With the proceeds they buy food, diapers and other necessities, where the economic crisis in their country glaring lack is.

Russia and China on Monday at the United Nations Security Council vetoed a resolution for a seven-day truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. According to Russia would give the rebels a chance to regroup.

' Viva Fidel, '' shouted thousands of Cubans Tuesday from the Revolution Square in Havana. Together with head of state Raul Castro and leftist leaders of friendly countries, such as the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, they commemorated their deceased former leader Fidel Castro.

Inflation in Venezuela amounts to about 720 percent this year. Money is almost worthless. Retailers count mountain banknotes customers deposit on the counter not after, but weigh the stack of paper to determine the value.

The talks between government and opposition to defuse the political crisis in Venezuela, still. According to the opposition is 'dialogue frozen' because the government delegation did not show up at two scheduled meetings. Opposition leader Jesus Torrealba accuses the government of President Nicolás Maduro irresponsible behavior.

The economy is grim, and social injustice are terrible. But President Maduro of Venezuela keeps the spirits up with their own swirling radio show devoted entirely to the salsa. 'Salsa is the power of happiness,' Maduro shouts enthusiastically by the microphone. The opposition abhors it.

The Caribbean Coastguard Tuesday twenty illegal Latinos from sea picked up near the Aruban coast. The migrants tried unseen by speedboat to reach the island.

is late on Wednesday a police officer killed in the mass protests in Venezuela. Two other officers were wounded. That said Interior Minister Nestor Reverol. The opposition leader Henrique Capriles said earlier that the marches 120 people were injured.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Has Monday paid a surprise visit to the Vatican City and talked to the pope. Francis recommended the controversial leader of the impoverished South American country, where almost everything is scarce or completely absent, to conduct an open dialogue to put an end to the deplorable condition.

A Venezuelan bomber intercepted a Colombian commercial aircraft and forced to leave the Venezuelan airspace. It is a passenger plane from airline Avianca, which were 200 passengers and was en route from Madrid to Bogota. That made the Colombian Defense Ministry Saturday (local time) known.

Thousands of white-clad women sat at a protest march in Caracas took to the streets. They expressed their dissatisfaction over the fact that the electoral authority (CNE) in Venezuela has suspended the referendum campaign by opponents of President Maduro. The march was organized by Lilian Tintori, the wife of imprisoned opposition leader Leopoldo López.

The Government of Colombia also begin peace talks with the ELN, the smaller of the two guerrilla organizations in the South American country. That, representatives of the two sides on Monday in Venezuela. The negotiations must be conducted in Ecuador.

Russia on Saturday in the UN Security Council vetoed a French resolution that demanded an immediate end to the air attacks on the city of Aleppo in northern Syria. The resolution also called for a cease-fire to allow humanitarian aid.

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Venezuelans may decide in a referendum early next year if President Nicolas Maduro may remain. The condition is that timely enough signatures are collected, the National Electoral Council reported in the country.

"Venezuela on Wednesday reacted angrily to a threat from the South American customs union Mercosur to suspend the country. Brazil, the driving force behind the penalty, insists that it is necessary to maintain and strengthen Mercosur " ''."

Hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters on Thursday in Venezuela took to the streets to demand the departure of the government. Wrapped in white chanted the demonstrators,, This government will fall, '' as they marched through the streets of the capital Caracas.

The deposition of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, appears to cause a diplomatic row in South America. Both Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have recalled their ambassadors from Brazil.

Brazil is furious with the Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Who accused Brazil of having to buy the voice of Uruguay in the president election free trade bloc Mercosur.

Approximately 28,000 people on Saturday morning (local time) crossed the newly opened border between Venezuela and Colombia.

Venezuelan court sentencing of opposition leader Leopoldo López for his part confirmed in recent bloody anti-government demonstrations. Lopez had appeal because the trial would only serve to silence him, but the judge rejected that. Lopez, who is serving a sentence of fourteen years, thus remains behind bars.

The United Nations Security Council on Friday approved the deployment of forces in the South Sudanese capital Juba. The force consists of four thousand soldiers. The deployment is part of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country.

Colombia and Venezuela will partially reopen their border. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro spoke according to the BBC on Saturday that from coming back may be restricted travel between the countries.

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has appointed a Minister of the Interior who is wanted in the United States for drug trafficking. It involves Nestor Reverol, a general who was head of both the anti-drug agency of the country as the National Guard.

The opposition in Venezuela has achieved a small victory in the effort to get rid of the socialist president Nicolás Maduro. She took the required number of signatures in all states of the country so that a new step can be put toward a referendum on the status of Maduro and his party.

The US Prosecution has filed an indictment against two former top executives of the anti-drug agency in Venezuela. The prosecution suspects the two is that they have taken between January 2008 and December 2010 money from drug traffickers in exchange for help to smuggle cocaine into the United States.