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...Davide Giusti sings Rodolfo and Rebecca Krynski Cox stars as Mimi....
...He is paired with the Mimì of Ailyn Pérez, not as sweet or fragile as some, but singing with a fullness of tone and care for the small notes that make each phrase generously expressive....
...There were also wealthy Venezuelans, spooked by the rise of Hugo Chávez, and Argentines, at least while the peso was still pegged to the dollar. Credit was easy....
...He’ll go into a second round against the populist rightwing candidate, Rodolfo Hernandez, later this month. On the campaign trail, Petro’s been met with great excitement....
...Mr Perez then explained in detail why the allegations were untrue....
...When president Carlos Andres Perez nationalised the industry and founded state owned oil giant PDVSA, Venezuela was pumping 3m barrels per day. And the money rolled in....
...He joined the Communist party as a teenager, and took up arms against the military dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in the late 1950s....
...When Hugo Chávez led a group of army officers in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the elected president Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1992, his televised acknowledgment that the coup had failed “for now” made...
...“What’s more, he doesn’t want to be like Chávez, or Trump, or that Nicaraguan thug Ortega,” he elaborated....
...It was a Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, one of the founding fathers of Opec, who described oil as “the devil’s excrement”, and his country’s dismal recent history proves his point....
...Venezuela was a founding member of Opec and when President Carlos Andrés Pérez nationalised the industry and founded PDVSA in 1976, it pumped over 3m barrels a day....
...“These elections are a fraud,” said María Rosario Pérez, a 38-year-old shop worker in Caracas. “We already know what the results will be. The elections are just pure theatre.”...
...The targeted individuals also include Néstor Reverol, the justice minister; Carlos Pérez, the head of the national police; and Jesus Suárez, head of the army....
...“Venezuela is being Somalia-ised,” said Mr Pérez, who served as planning minister under deceased former president Hugo Chávez....
...Néstor Reverol also served as interior minister under Mr Maduro’s predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez, writes the FT’s Andres Schipani....
...Miguel Pérez Abad, former head of the chamber of small and medium enterprises, is the new industry minister....
...They have the absolute assurance that their securities are guaranteed,” Mr Pérez Abad told Bloomberg....
...Other moves include the demotion of Rodolfo Marco Torres from economic vice-president and finance minister to food minister....
...Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 Perez was killed along with his partner, Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon....
...“We are already in the abyss, and I have no doubt the government will fall,” says Felipe Pérez Martí, once a planning minister under Chávez....
...In 1998, a year before former leader Hugo Chávez took office, the rate was 19 per 100,000, says the think-tank’s director Roberto Briceño León, adding that after 17 years of socialist “revolution”, it is...
...Venezuela under Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, has achieved none of these....
...Comandante Chávez is buried in the capital’s “January 23” district, named for the date in 1958 that a popular uprising overthrew General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the military dictator Yefferson Meza, a soldier...
...Two years ago Mr Giordani, chief economic adviser to the late Hugo Chávez, estimated that insider access to subsidised hard currency had cost the country more than $25bn, equivalent to almost 15 per cent...
...On Tuesday, from Beijing, finance minister Rodolfo Marco Torres said there will be announcements when Venezuela’s delegation returns to the country....
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