Venezuelan president's plan to beat hunger: breed rabbits – and eat them
Venezuela’s government has urged citizens to see rabbits as more than “cute pets” as it defended a plan to breed and eat them – even as the opposition says this would do nothing to end chronic food shortages.
The “rabbit...
Venezuela hikes minimum wage 50 percent, effectively down 17 percent
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro raised the country's minimum wage by half on Sunday to just over $12.50 per month at the black market exchange rate.
But given the currency's fall, the new minimum monthly wage of 97,532...
Hugo Chavez's childhood home burned by protesters in Venezuela, lawmaker says
Protesters set fire to late President Hugo Chavez's childhood home in western Venezuela on Monday, an opposition lawmaker said, as protests against the South American nation's socialist government grew increasingly...