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Venezuela opens its electricity system to private investment

The National Assembly of Venezuela, controlled by Chavismo, has taken a step toward ending the state monopoly over the electricity service, which has been in crisis with blackouts and other problems for two decades. A draft reform to the Organic Law of the Electric System and Service was approved in first reading; it is aimed at opening the field to private capital within a framework of long-term concessions.

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© MIGUEL GUTIERREZ (EFE)

Session in Venezuela’s assembly, in April.
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The other Carmen Navas: The tireless families searching for relatives who disappeared in Venezuela’s prisons

María Emely Delgado crossed paths with Carmen Navas several times this year: at the offices of the NGO Foro Penal, at the Public Ministry, and once at the El Rodeo prison on the outskirts of Caracas. Delgado is 63 years old, Navas was 82. Both were looking for their sons, who disappeared after being arbitrarily detained. Carmen Navas died 10 days after finding her son Víctor Hugo in a cemetery. She had spent 16 months searching for him. María Emely has still not found Jorgen. “You have to be in these shoes to know what this is like,” says the retired teacher, who has been wearing them for almost two years. “Her son had been missing for less time than mine; with Jorgen I’m now coming up on 22 months without news of him.”

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People hold candles during a vigil in honor of Carmen Navas in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Parcerias e Negócios anuncia parceria com a Diáspora Lusa para aproximar empresários portugueses no mundo

A Convenção Anual da Parcerias e Negócios realizou-se no dia 23 de Maio, no SDivine Fátima Hotel, reunindo empresários, empreendedores, oradores, dirigentes e profissionais de diferentes sectores de actividade. O encontro ficou marcado pela partilha de experiências, pela apresentação de…

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