Venezuelan opposition is showing new life after naming a candidate to take on Maduro Venzuela's opposition finally gets to name a candidate to take on President Nicolas Maduro in July's election. The authoritarian leader has used all sorts of underhanded tricks to seize the advantage. 05/3/2024 - 10:54 am | View Link
Maduro busca exigir a empresas que aporten a su nuevo fondo de pensiones estatal El Gobierno de Venezuela propone un impuesto a las empresas privadas de hasta el 15% de sus salarios pagados para la creación de un fondo de pensiones estatal. 05/3/2024 - 5:59 am | View Link
Maduro Seeks to Tax Businesses for His New State Pension Fund Venezuela’s government is proposing a tax on private businesses as high as 15% of their paid wages for the creation of a state pension fund. 05/3/2024 - 5:35 am | View Link
Maduro Keeps Venezuela Minimum Wage Frozen But Raises Bonuses Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday announced an increase in state bonuses for public sector workers but kept the minimum wage frozen at the equivalent of less than $4 a month. 05/1/2024 - 10:48 pm | View Link
Venezuela Public Employees To Get $130 Monthly In Bonuses: President Maduro President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday ahead of the presidential elections that all public employees working in Venezuela will receive $130 per month as bonus. "Today I decide to raise the ... 05/1/2024 - 9:41 pm | View Link
Maduro, Venezuelan opposition agree to freer election in 2024 The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and leaders from the U.S.-backed opposition signed an agreement Tuesday outlining commitments to hold competitive presidential elections next... 05/3/2024 - 11:24 am | View Website
Nicolás Maduro: US charges Venezuelan president with 'narco ... Nicolás Maduro: US charges Venezuelan president with 'narco-terrorism'. It also offers a $15m (£12.5m) reward for information leading to Nicolás Maduro's arrest. 05/2/2024 - 8:22 pm | View Website
Nicolás Maduro Nicolás Maduro Moros (Spanish: [nikoˈlas maˈðuɾo ˈmoɾos] ⓘ; born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the president of Venezuela since 2013. Beginning his working life as a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade union leader before being elected to the National Assembly in 2000. 05/2/2024 - 12:15 pm | View Website
Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro: Dictator or defender of socialism? A profile of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro who succeeded Hugo Chávez in power in 2013 and has since kept the legacy of Mr Chávez's brand of socialism alive. 05/2/2024 - 9:16 am | View Website
Nicolas Maduro | Biography, Facts, & Presidency | Britannica Nicolas Maduro is a politician who succeeded Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela in 2013 upon Chavez’s death. As world oil prices fell and the collapse of the Venezuelan economy was accompanied by widespread shortages of food and medicine, Maduro’s rule was challenged and became increasingly authoritarian. 05/2/2024 - 1:17 am | View Website
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
Rumours have been swirling about Cuellar for over two years, ever since the FBI raided his home in January 2022.
Cuellar maintains his and his wife's innocence and vows to fight the charges. Since he had no challengers, Cuellar will be on the ballot in November for the Democrats in TX-28.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Rudy Giuliani was not only respected, but revered as "America's Mayor." The hero of 9/11 (which he'd tell you every other sentence). He never deserved any of it, of course.
He was always a nasty piece of work, a philanderer, racist and, frankly, an asshole who couldn't get along with anyone.
Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U. S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reducing the size or quantity of a product while selling it at the same price.
At the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
hearing—entitled "Higher Prices: How Shrinkflation and Technology Can Impact Consumers' Finances"—Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) began by acknowledging that "prices today are far too high, and families are having a harder time finding a fair price, seeing more of their paycheck vanish into thin air."
"All of this is happening while corporate profits hit record highs," the senator continued.
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more