V Guyana strengthens presence at Venezuela border
THE VINCENTIAN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 03 , 2018. 5.
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THE NEWS AGENCY DEMERARA Waves Towards this end, reported last week that Guyana was moving to much-needed increase its immigration department presence supplies - including near the border with Venezuela. medicine, food This as refugees from Venezuela supplies and continued to cross the border into Englishcamping equipment speaking Guyana, fleeing from what was - were sent to said to be political and economic crisis in villages near the that Spanish-speaking country. border shared with Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix Venezuela, a was quoted by Demerara Waves as saying, government release “I can say for sure that during the course of said. this week, we will be reinforcing the “There is minimal Venezuelans find all kinds of routes to cross into the Winston Felix – immigration department in Region One to (accommodation) neighbouring Guyana. (Credit: Bernie’s Travels) Guyana’s Minister of deal with the irregular arrival of arrangement in Citizenship – was Venezuelans into Guyana.” tarpaulins, hammocks, blankets, pillows, there because what has been happening is Minister Felix also reported on a newly cots. So, we have sent in what we think is expecting a report of that Guyanese have been very constituted board comprised of accommodative, but not all the Venezuelans necessary to accommodate those who are in the definite number of Venezuelan refugees by representatives from the Ministries of the open,” Minister Felix explained. are being housed. There are those that are Monday, July 23. Public Health, Social Protection, sleeping outdoors so for those we have sent (Source; Demerara Waves) (Credit: DPI Guyana) Communities, Citizenship, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Civil Defense Commission (CDC), which was tasked with preparing a coordinated effort to give structure to the government’s response to the situation. The minister added, according to Demerara Waves, that the board was IN MARCH 2018, PRESIDENT has seen it fit to introduce even expecting an initial statistical report on Nicolas Maduro announced that new more drastic currency adjustment the exact number of persons seeking bills will be put into circulation in measures, and as announced last refuge at Guyana’s border. Venezuela, slashing the denominations week Wednesday by President A definite number on the recorded by three zeroes. Nicolas Maduro, the country is influx of Venezuelans was expected to This, he said then, was done as the replacing its national currency, the be provided at the next meeting, country positioned itself to take bolivar, with a new one that will scheduled for Monday, July 23. advantage of the interest in reportedly be tied to its Meanwhile, the government of Venezuela’s fledgling statecontroversial “petro” token. backed cryptocurrency. The new bolívar soberano (or Guyana said that it was ‘working to Four or so months since, Venezuela sovereign bolivar) is to enter use in facilitate the refugees’. the country Venezuela’s President Nicolas next month, Maduro holds a sample of the new according to hundred bolivars notes during a President meeting with the ministers Maduro. responsible for the economic sector As well as him that they had arrest warrants against his on March 22, 2018. Things have stating that wife, mother and brother. changed since then. (Credit: Reuters) the sovereign Based on this phone call and the fact that his bolivar will be relatives’ homes had become regular targets of the president said: “The economic “anchored” to visits by SEBIB patrols, the 32-year-old lawmaker, the oil-backed reconversion will start on August 20 who represented the coastal state of Vargas, definitively with the circulation and petro — which decided to flee. was launched in issuance of the new Sovereign Bolivar, Over the weekend, Olivares and his wife, the new monetary cone [sic] that is February — brother, and three-month-old son drove 18 hours going to have a new method of Opposition lawmaker Jose Manuel Olivares Maduro said to the Colombian border, which they crossed the country will anchoring the Petro.” shouts next to others, as they clash with riot illegally because the baby had not been granted a strip five zeroes Stating that the new currency will security forces during a protest against passport. from the bolivar alter the financial situation of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s Colombia’s center-right government, a fierce country “in a radical manner,” Maduro rather than government in Caracas, Venezuela June 5, 2017. critic of leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas said, “We have the correct vision of three as had (Credit: REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo) Maduro, has allowed them in despite the child’s what the economic future in Venezuela been initially lack of papers, and the family is now in the capital planned. should be, above all, we will achieve ANOTHER OPPOSITION POLITICIAN/activist Bogota, Olivares told the Reuters correspondent. has chosen to leve Venezuela. This move is it.” “We left the country in a traumatic way. I am The petro, he added, “will end up A Reuters report that appeared on news wires seen as an going to have to work now, hopefully as a doctor across the globe on Sunday 29th July, on Friday effort aimed at being consolidated technologically and but I might have to do anything, like so many financially” and will come to 27th July, 2018, said that opposition lawmaker countering other Venezuelans around the world,” Olivares “permeate all the national and and oncologist Jose Manuel Olivares, who led soaring protests over Venezuela’s crumbling health sector, said. inflation that is international economic activity.” Reuters said that Venezuela’s Information Despite being declared as “illegal” has fled for neighboring Colombia, after being told expected to that his relatives could be arrested unless he quit Ministry did not respond to a request for comment. reach a million by the opposition-led congress before Maduro says the opposition is a coup-plotting its launch, the petro has been moving politics. percent this Olivares, according to the report, said that late elite seeking to topple him by sabotaging the year, a Reuters ever further into the heart of the nation’s finances as the president has last week he received a phone call from a man who economy. Most economists instead blame report stated. Venezuela’s creaking state-led system for identified himself as a member of the Bolivarian According to endeavored to ensure its use across shortages, hyperinflation, and five years of society. one commentator said. National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) — local news economic contraction. (Source: Reuters) Venezuela’s Intelligence Service - who informed source teleSUR, (Source: Reuters, teleSUR)
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