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According to El Diario, Jackson Chourio, William Contreras, Luis Lara and Antonio Senzatela are on the Brewers' roster, which opens at home with home-field advantage; neither Milwaukee nor the Rays has ever won a title.
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According to El Informador, association president Julio Gutiérrez says the surface mix must be poured at a 90-degree angle to compact properly, and that intermittent water service seeps into the asphalt and causes alligator cracking.
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According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz counted 26 outages Monday against 19 on Sunday, with 72 h 7 min without service in Iribarren and 43 h 7 min in Palavecino; the average cut lasted 4 h 51 min and nine areas went more than six straight hours dark.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the asphalt past the La Paca coffee mill has broken down into dirt and gravel, the shoulder has collapsed and traffic is down to one narrow lane; coffee and vegetables from the highlands travel that route to Portuguesa.
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According to El Impulso, residents say leaking drinking water blocks the way for schoolchildren and that officials have gone four months without answering them.
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According to El Diario, citing EFE, Jorge Rodríguez negotiates for chavismo and Dinorah Figuera leads the 2015 National Assembly delegation; the talks began October 14 and cover political and civil guarantees. María Corina Machado and Edmundo González are not taking part.
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According to Runrunes, Hugo Medina, president of the CVG retirees and pensioners association, says they have received only administrative silence and estimates that one metric ton of gold, about $96 million, would cover the payment.
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According to TalCual, the secretary of state called India a «refining superpower» able to process heavy crude and acknowledged there may be impediments tied to sanctions; he did not say which ones or announce any measures.
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According to El Nacional, 127 people applied for those seats and the selection, set for October 15, was pushed to Thursday's session; Transparencia Venezuela found party ties among 52 applicants, 13 of them PSUV members.
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According to El Nacional, the CB Global Data poll, taken October 5 to 8 in 18 countries, puts Claudia Sheinbaum first with 69.3% and Nayib Bukele second with 68.3%; last is Guatemala's Bernardo Arévalo, with 31%.
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According to TalCual, the UNDP estimates 2.1 million tons of rubble after the June 24 earthquake; reported pneumonia cases nationwide rose from 2,225 to 2,485 between epidemiological weeks 35 and 38, and the Health Ministry's reporting coverage is around 55%.
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According to El Informador, Tampa Bay won the sixth game of the American League Championship Series 7-3 on October 19 on two-run homers by Júnior Caminero and Yandy Díaz, closing out the series with three straight wins.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the adult team beat Cuba 2-1 in sets at the Domo Bolivariano, its first win over the Cubans in that category, after getting past Mexico in the semifinals. The youth squad lost its final to Cuba.
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According to El Nacional, the Navegantes erased a 6-2 deficit with four runs in the seventh on Pablo Aliendo's two-out single and finished with 15 hits; Lara made three errors. Magallanes is now 1-6 and Cardenales 4-2.
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According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz counted 103 outages in Iribarren, 75% of the total, and 32 in Palavecino, plus 33 voltage fluctuations; hours without power fell by 75 from the previous week, and the average cut lasted 5 hours 6 minutes.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the former Torres mayor and the former deputy met in Caracas with Dinorah Figuera, Ramón López and Macario González of the 2015 National Assembly; they asked for an election date and verifiable releases.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the union of Lara state government employees delivered a proposal on October 19 to peg wages to the dollar by education level, end discretionary payments and move payrolls off the Plataforma Patria.
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According to Crónica.Uno, Carlos Correa said there is no official data on those prosecuted and that other organizations cite close to 1,000 cases; the NGO wants the cases dismissed and victims compensated.
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According to El Diario, the economist's figure dropped 7.5 points from 255.8% on October 12, ending two weeks of increases; the BCV reported 8.4% inflation in September and 225.32% for January through September.
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According to Runrunes, Carlos Fernández and Henry Alviarez announced from Vente Venezuela's Altamira headquarters that marches will be held in every state; in Caracas they start at 4:00 p.m. from Plaza Venezuela. They want María Corina Machado's return.
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According to Runrunes, the telephone survey of 1,357 people in 302 municipalities found 78.8% endured outages of at least three hours, with five hours the most common length, and that 84.5% rate their quality of life as bad.
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According to El Nacional, the October 19 meeting reviewed phasing bonuses into base pay, new wage scales and bills on working hours, year-end bonuses, vacation and severance; the agreements will go to the National Assembly.
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According to El Nacional, Trump answered that way on October 19 to a reporter's question at the White House and did not say whether his administration will push for conditions for a vote; Venezuela still has no election date.
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According to Crónica.Uno, the Padre Machado cancer hospital has no mammogram or ultrasound machines and the Razetti has no 2026 slots left: 2027 appointments are handed out after January 15. The Sociedad Anticancerosa projects 9,354 breast cancer diagnoses this year.
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According to Runrunes, the Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones reported the death of a 68-year-old inmate with HIV and cirrhosis at the Hombre Nuevo Francisco Delgado center, the former El Marite jail, which holds more than 1,100 prisoners and has capacity for 659.
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According to Runrunes, pediatrician Huníades Urbina of the Academia Nacional de Medicina cited that report and estimated 70% to 80% of patients pay for their own chemotherapy; the Sociedad Anticancerosa projects 4,080 breast cancer deaths in 2026.
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According to El Informador, Carlos Colmenarez went 3-for-3 with a homer, a double and three RBIs; Florencio Serrano got the win, Robinson Hernández his first save and Williander Moreno the loss. Lara hosts Magallanes Monday the 19th at 7:00 p.m. in Barquisimeto.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, resident Amador Durán says they pay $10 per water truck and that a broken pipe on carrera 29 between calles 31 and 32 has been leaking for about 15 days; Hidroven, formerly Hidrolara, responded without fixing it.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the team, honored in the free papers category at the October 8 to 10 congress in Margarita, studied 22 seropositive patients from Cubiro, in Jiménez municipality, to identify those at risk of sudden death.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, residents heard an explosion around 11:30 a.m. Sunday the 18th; Protección Civil and firefighters brought the flames under control with foam by noon. An overload is the unconfirmed cause circulating, and there was no official statement.
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According to El Nacional, the fair took place October 18 at the Las Trinitarias mall and the Inmaculada Concepción parish in El Tocuyo; the top prize was a car, with cash prizes of up to $3,000. Funds go to social work, evangelization and church upkeep.
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According to El Diario, the 15-hour broadcast, which ended at midnight Sunday the 18th, beat goals of $1.5 million and $2.25 million; funds go to Cáritas, Fe y Alegría, the Hospital Ortopédico Infantil and the Fundación Juan Pablo Dos Santos, with an Ernst & Young audit.
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According to Runrunes, on its 31st day of monitoring the NGO found blocking rates of 89.1% for VPItv, 84.9% for Infobae, 76.5% for NTN24 and 71.7% for El Nacional, and 100% for the Browsec VPN; 46 sites showed as unblocked.
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According to Runrunes, Roberto Enríquez presented the «Acuerdo Nacional para la Recuperación de la República» on October 18, backed by AD, VP, PJ, Copei and Convergencia; María Corina Machado attended as a guest and Edmundo González spoke by video call.
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According to El Nacional, the committee says, citing relatives and neighbors, that the prison has allegedly been without power since Saturday night, the 17th, and that detainees' calls have been very brief; it holds the state responsible for their safety.
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According to El Nacional, Alfredo Romero and Gonzalo Himiob will accept it at 10:30 a.m. in IESA's Arturo Uslar Pietri auditorium in San Bernardino, Caracas, for the NGO's human rights work; it has more than 200 volunteer lawyers.
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According to El Nacional, domestic flights fell from 535 to 361 a week over the same period; Barquisimeto has 6 weekly international frequencies. Qatar Airways starts in November with 4 weekly flights and United on January 12, 2027.
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According to TalCual, Luis Ramos, medical director of the Aragua Sociedad Anticancerosa, said breast cancer (40%) and cervical cancer (30%) make up 70% of diagnoses in women; the SAV estimates 15,522 new cases of the two in 2026.
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According to El Informador, Packard went 3-for-5 with two doubles and two RBIs, Robinson Hernández got the win, Gustavo Rodríguez the save and Amílcar Chirinos the loss before more than 9,000 fans. César Izturis' club visits Magallanes Sunday in Valencia.
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According to El Informador, Vente's political secretary in Lara wants the true cost of the service calculated, an auditable fuel supply tied to routes and frequencies, and the state to cover discounted fares; he proposes a census of vehicles within 90 days.
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According to El Diario, the ceremony took place Friday, October 16, with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric M. Smith and chargé d'affaires John Barrett; the embassy called it «another step» to strengthen relations and gave no further details.
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According to El Diario, Vente Venezuela's October 17 call reached cities including Madrid, Bogotá, London and Tokyo; they want a presidential vote on July 24, 2027, and a new CNE that helps register nearly 8 million migrants.
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According to TalCual, the bill swaps sentences of 10 to 20 years for fines of 500 to 10,000 times the official exchange rate, set by the Interior Ministry, which can convert them into 200 to 600 hours of community service; platforms must remove banned content.
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According to El Nacional, citing chamber president Richard Ujueta's remarks to Unión Radio, the sector expects to finish 2026 above that 84% on a strong fourth quarter; it grew 125% in 2025.
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According to El Nacional, Rodríguez spoke at the close of the 2026 Energy, Oil and Gas Conference; she cited 17 agreements with the United States and another 61 deals, and estimated 324,000 jobs over ten years. She wants each contract to name its domestic supplier.
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According to El Informador, Rafael Ortega went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and three runs scored, Carlos Pérez drove in three and Christian Cosby got the win. Lara hosts Magallanes this Saturday the 17th at 4:00 p.m. at the Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the athlete, who started out in basketball and trains at the Máximo Viloria sports complex in Barquisimeto, will go to the Games scheduled for October 31 in Dakar, Senegal.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, María Angélica Giménez, president of UCLA's engineering student council, hopes for gradual improvements, and Ariel Pérez of UCV says the raise does not keep up with the cost of living.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, at UCLA only the health sciences school serves about 400 trays Monday through Thursday to scholarship students, Unexpo serves meals twice a month, and the UPEL and Uptaeb halls are shut; UPEL's has been closed more than six years.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, unions and residents joined the march, which set out from avenida Vargas and avenida 20; Sobella Mejías, PUD coordinator in Lara, cited outages and low wages, and Enrique Ferreira urged speeding up the choice of a new CNE.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the association led by Juan Romero has worked since October 15, 1985, has more than 60 members and more than 70 performances; it also teaches cuatro and golpes larenses at its Andrés «Pipo» Aguilar school.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Ruy Medina says Hospital Central should have three to four and has none for transfers; Alberto Domínguez of Stivss says IVSS units sit idle for lack of batteries or tires. A private transfer costs $40 to $60.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Geovanny Peroza of the Sindicato Automotor says some drivers spend 24 to 48 hours at a station, and Briamt Reyes of the Sindicato Bolivariano de Transporte blames part of the delay on power cuts during pumping hours.
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According to Crónica.Uno, Seniat head Román Maniglia wants stable rules in place by early 2027; business groups want income tax withholding cut from 75% to 50% or 25%, the IGTF scrapped and 30 days instead of 15 to pay VAT.
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According to Runrunes, the IIES-UCAB Informe de Coyuntura expects inflation to rise from 252% in 2025, rules out hyperinflation and estimates oil output could reach 1.2 million barrels a day by year-end.
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According to TalCual, Carlos Salazar and José Patines call for setting out from plaza La Candelaria; the minimum wage has been 130 bolívares since 2022, about $0.15, and August's food basket cost $755.36, according to Cendas-FVM.
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According to El Nacional, Héctor Urgelles Fox, the party's national organization secretary, said in Guárico that more than nine months have passed since Nicolás Maduro's capture on January 3 without changes at the CNE; he also wants international observers.
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According to El Nacional, citing Bloomberg, Latin America vice president Susana Cordeiro Guerra said up to $2 billion could come in the first year if Venezuela clears arrears with other multilateral lenders; a first $500 million operation would target water and power.
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According to El Nacional, the full court approved it on October 13 and released it on the 16th; courts 13, 30, 49 and 52 lose that jurisdiction. Alí Daniels of Acceso a la Justicia calls it positive but insufficient and wants those trials voided.
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According to El Diario, citing psychiatrist Diego Muñoz Cabas, the rate rose from 3.2 per 100,000 people in 2015 to between 6.9 and 7, five people in the country take their own lives each day, and the last official epidemiological data date from 2017.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, former Health Minister Rafael Orihuela presented a six-month pilot plan to the 2015 National Assembly delegation led by Dinorah Figuera; it cites failures in vaccination, maternal and child care, and infection control.
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According to the Health Ministry, more than 80 people took part in discussion groups in Simón Planas, Morán (Humocaro Bajo) and Iribarren (Santa Rosa) to review links between community committees and clinics and the capacity of the rural outpatient network.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Lara managed just four hits at the Luis Aparicio; starter James González went five innings, allowing one earned run with six strikeouts, and took the loss. The teams meet again Friday in Maracaibo.
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According to NBC Los Angeles, Milwaukee won Game 4 of the National League Championship Series 6-4 on Thursday, October 15. CBS Sports reports Jake Bauers was named series MVP, with six RBIs. Venezuelan rookie Luis Lara plays for Milwaukee.
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According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz counted 18 outages in Iribarren, with 102 h 43 min without power, and 6 in Palavecino, with 28 h 47 min; the average cut lasted 5 h 43 min, and hours without power rose 25.11% from Tuesday.
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According to El Informador, the Unión Nacional de Caficultores, through spokesman Félix Saavedra, wants processors to pay $310 per quintal for grade 3 coffee and asks the Corporación Venezolana del Café to halt shipping permits until prices are honored.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Sinvemal president Jully Cegarra cites power rationing of six to seven hours a day, and the principal of a school in western Barquisimeto estimates at least 40% of her students do not attend regularly.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Efraín Pastrán said Emica delivered the 2,388 square meters of glass needed; first comes a topographic study, rerouting rainwater and repairing the perimeter damaged by tree roots. The report gives no cost.
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According to Crónica.Uno, both appeared on October 15 before Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan; the expanded indictment alleges at least three U.S. citizens were among the victims. The trial is set to begin June 14, 2027.
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According to Efecto Cocuyo, citing EFE, María Corina Machado told The New York Times she will return «sooner than you imagine»; the State Department said Vente Venezuela was invited to the talks, which hold their third round in Caracas this week.
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According to El Diario, the call comes more than nine months after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro; the group said it will announce meeting points in the coming hours. Its slogan: «The election date is the date of liberation».
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According to TalCual, Chile's Foreign Ministry will start with passport delivery and appointments, and from October 26 will offer all services, from ID cards to powers of attorney and civil records, for the more than 25,000 Chileans living in Venezuela.
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According to El Nacional, the Constitutional Chamber ruled in decision 1034, 48 hours after receiving the bill requested by Delcy Rodríguez; the Assembly can move to a second reading. Foro Penal documents more than 900 people prosecuted under the law.
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According to El Nacional, the Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones received complaints in Carabobo, Guárico, Miranda and Lara of fees of $50 to $100 per inmate and $5 to $12 for drinking water; director Humberto Prado will go to prosecutors and the ombudsman.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Huníades Urbina, director of the UCV's José María Vargas School of Medicine, told Globovisión that rain and heat from tropical waves are increasing chikungunya, zika, influenza A and B, and diarrhea linked to poor water quality.
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According to El Informador, Zavala's hit in the bottom of the ninth won it before 12,994 fans at the Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez; Gustavo Rodríguez got the win in relief, Luis Cohen took the loss and Danry Vásquez homered for Lara.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the two marches stopped at the CDCE and ended outside the state government offices; Omar Agüero of Sepeel said wages have been frozen for 1,673 days and are worth $0.15, against a $755 food basket.
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According to Cabudare Digital, traffic backs up when students arrive and leave, some drivers go the wrong way on one-way streets and pedestrians cross at risk; residents want Palavecino municipality to step up enforcement.
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According to Crónica.Uno, the Health Ministry bulletin recorded 281 influenza cases in week 38, against a historical median of 199, and 2,485 pneumonia cases; infectious disease specialist Patricia Valenzuela says influenza A (H3N2) predominates. Dengue cases total 12,410.
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According to El Informador, Jeanneth Gamboa, president of Asopols, said at a protest outside the Defensoría del Pueblo in Barquisimeto that 59 retired officers have died to date; they want health coverage, bonuses and their savings fund money, withheld since October 2020.
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According to El Informador, Deputy Hospitals Minister Mauricio Vega told Unión Radio that three or four MRI machines work in the public system, announced 50 CT scanners (128-slice) and said at least $25 million a month goes to supplies and medicines.
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According to El Nacional, Zair Mundaray, the CNP and Un Mundo Sin Mordaza reject the partial reform requested by Delcy Rodríguez; Foro Penal counts 927 people charged under the law since 2017, which carries sentences of up to 20 years.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, sewage has been overflowing for at least two months at the entrance to the area, next to the Puente Negro creek, bringing foul odors and pests; resident Dedsy Montes says they reported it to authorities with no response.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, about 200 families in Reinaldo Martínez and Getsemaní (Jiménez) say garbage is narrowing the creek and stagnant water breeds pests and exposes them to dengue; they want help repairing a corroded metal bridge.
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According to the Iribarren mayor's office, in a statement published by Noticias Barquisimeto, Mayor Yanys Agüero delivered the Argimiro Gabaldón clinic in Patarata, with new equipment and supplies, and the El Mamón clinic (Unión parish), now 100% complete and open.
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According to El Informador, club executives and the state government said at the team's October 12 presentation that the project is already designed; they also plan a water well and work on the perimeter fence and parking lot, phased in through 2027.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the road uniform features the silhouette of the Barquisimeto Cathedral and the City Connect set is black with musical notes; Almeida will be followed by James González, José Atencio, Roman Angelo and Máximo Castillo.
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According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz counted 136 outages and 745 hours without power, 17.6% less than the previous week, but the average cut lasted 5 h 41 min, up from 4 h 37 min. Iribarren logged 104 outages and Palavecino 29.
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According to El Informador, Naudy Ledezma, the municipality's second elected mayor, wants the power substation reinforced and wells drilled, and community leader Jesús Querales wants the Barquisimeto-Acarigua highway repaved and the Gamelotal-Buría road finished.
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According to El Informador, the political leader considers it unconstitutional to tie the minimum wage, frozen for four years and seven months, to GDP, and is calling for a 9:00 a.m. rally at plaza El Encuentro to demand a decent wage.
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According to El Informador, Sumalara warns that skipping it could suspend pension payments. In Iribarren it is handled at the Casa del Maestro, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.; in Palavecino, on the 13th at the Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi school.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the institute listed Lara among the states with rain on October 12 and expects accumulations above 70 millimeters in parts of the center-west, the Andes, Zulia, Amazonas and Bolívar.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the crashes between motorcycles and cars, or between two motorcycles, happened in Iribarren, Jiménez and Morán; five people injured in Jiménez were moved from the Quíbor hospital to the Antonio María Pineda Central Hospital.
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According to Efecto Cocuyo, the FVM, Fetrasalud and other unions set out at 9:00 a.m. from the Corazón de Jesús corner in Caracas to demand a review of pay scales frozen since 2022 and an end to paying payrolls only through Patria; they will deliver about 40,000 signatures.
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According to Runrunes, the Fraser Institute and Cedice Libertad index, using 2023 to 2025 data, gives it 2.94 out of 10, the worst score for a second straight year. The study cites the economic emergency and inflation among the indicators weighing most.
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According to TalCual, Fundehullan confirmed he walked out on October 12 at about 4:32 p.m., after his initial hearing, under a substitute precautionary measure; he had been detained on October 9. The NGO demands an end to the intimidation.
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According to El Nacional, Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin told Folha that Rodríguez is «as illegitimate as» Maduro and that Uruguay will deal only with an election winner confirmed by an independent court; Félix Plasencia called it «unacceptable interference».
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According to El Nacional, the hearing in Trujillo et al. v. Venezuela will be held in San José at 11:00 a.m. Venezuela time and will cover the merits and reparations; 19 people were killed that day in 2002 and more than 300 were wounded by gunfire.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the volunteer group Manos a la Obra and the Centro Occidente chapter of the Sociedad Venezolana de Psiquiatría set up five stations on sleep, nutrition, exercise, conversation and calm, and plan to take the activity to other communities.
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According to El Informador, catcher Ronald Hernández and infielder Manuel Sequera homered at Chino Canónico stadium; Lara opens the season Wednesday in Barquisimeto against Bravos de Margarita, with Adrián Almeida starting.
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According to El Informador, Magallanes hosts Tiburones de La Guaira at José Bernardo Pérez stadium with Ricardo Sánchez on the mound; Cardenales opens its season Wednesday the 14th at 7:00 p.m. at the Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the 24-year-old GW Erco SportFitness rider held the lead through the eighth stage, Cagua-Turmero, and won in 23 h 50 min 25 s; José Misael Urián finished 52 seconds back and Sebastián Castaño 1:09 back.
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According to El Nacional, the outfielder's fifth-inning RBI single to center put Milwaukee ahead in the opener of the National League Championship Series; the second game is October 12 in Milwaukee.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Chilean Interior Undersecretary Máximo Pavez said the departures were counted between January 3 and October 4, and that José Antonio Kast's government has expelled 1,874 foreigners this year.
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According to TalCual, teaching assistants will receive $60 and payment will go through the Patria system; applications for the first stage run October 9 to 16 on the ministry's portal. Half the grants will be awarded on socioeconomic grounds.
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According to TalCual, the NGO says PNB officers detained him on October 9 at about 10:00 p.m. at a business he owns in Pedraza, without a warrant and without catching him in the act, and demands his immediate release.
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According to TalCual, citing Reuters, Pdvsa president Héctor Obregón said output is now about 1.2 million barrels a day and the goal is to close 2026 with 105 contracts: 61 signed and 44 pending.
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According to El Nacional, the physician and political leader, citing technical sector estimates, puts peak demand at 16,030 megawatts against 12,415 available, and blames years of underinvestment in transmission and the loss of skilled staff.
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According to El Nacional, citing Bloomberg, the ad hoc group made up of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo and T. Rowe Price controls about 37% of outstanding debt; bonds maturing in 2027 rose about 4 cents this week.
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According to El Nacional, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on October 11 the arrest of the Colombian businessman, who faces two federal indictments from 2019 and 2021 over alleged money laundering and bribery tied to deals with Nicolás Maduro's government.
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According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz counted 25 outages that day: 19 in as many Iribarren sectors, with 4 voltage fluctuations, and 6 in Palavecino; the average cut lasted more than five hours. If your area loses power, report it at cabudare.com/servicios.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, parents and neighbors of the Julio César Montero school in Moroturo parish have complained since 2024 that rain floods classrooms and its 316 students sit on concrete blocks; they seek help from the Zona Educativa and the state government.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the National Assembly's Preliminary Commission published the list on October 10; the committee, with 12 civil society members and 11 lawmakers, will preselect 32 lead candidates for justice.
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According to TalCual, the Constitutional Chamber approved in ruling 1033 a 60-day extension of decree 5,443, at Delcy Rodríguez's request; Acceso a la Justicia warns the Constitution allows a maximum of 120 days for that type of emergency.
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According to TalCual, party international coordinator Luis Tarbay announced the rally on October 10 and said «it is urgent that we have an election date» for the presidential vote.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, director and surgical oncologist Jorge Uribe estimates more than 3,000 patients a year; co-founder María Eugenia Márquez says many women cannot afford a consultation and public institutions lack equipment.
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According to El Nacional, residents of callejón San Carlos in Altos del Brasil (Torres) say the transformer has been failing for about three weeks and fear the nearby CDI could lose power; they say they reported it to Corpoelec and via VenApp with no response.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the overflow between Guzmán Blanco and Padre Zubillaga streets has worsened in recent weeks and is now reaching homes; residents are asking the authorities for urgent action.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, residents of about nine sectors say the distribution cycle, which brings water only on Tuesdays, falls short and that a recent pump motor replacement did not fix it; they want the plan revised and the valve operator replaced.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Luis Reyes Reyes said work has resumed with a riprap barrier and the river was channeled 600 meters upstream and 300 downstream; he estimates five months of design and six of construction.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the Sitrauptaeb union said at an assembly that wages do not even cover bus fare, rejected bonuses in place of salary and asked the ministry to ease its five-day-a-week attendance requirement.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the illnesses at the Complejo Educativo José Nicolás Silva Castillo (Morán) have affected more than 70 people since September 21; teachers complain of secrecy and Governor Luis Reyes Reyes says no cause has been determined.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the state is among the 10 with the most tuberculosis cases, with 300 to 400 diagnoses a year; Mercedes España of the Programa Nacional de Salud Respiratoria puts the national figure at about 10,000 cases a year, 600 of them in children.
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According to El Nacional, the Federación de Colegios de Bioanalistas calculated that 79.89% of public bioanalysis services have severe limitations, and unions allege patients are being referred to specific private labs, which they call illegal.
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According to El Informador, the Coalición Sindical Única del Magisterio, coordinated by Sinprotec-Lara, gathered active and retired teachers at plaza El Encuentro on October 7; it called for that schedule and for talks on a third collective agreement.
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According to El Informador, Jeanneth Gamboa, president of Asopols, said at a protest outside the Gobernación de Lara that more than 50 retired police officers died this year without social support; she demands full medical care and bonuses for the state's 1,500 retirees.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the Complejo Educativo José Nicolás Silva Castillo in El Tocuyo suspended classes indefinitely after episodes of nausea, vomiting and dizziness among students and staff; firefighters from Morán and the CDI José Felipe Alvarado responded.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, Cecodap's report found the highest level of suicidal ideation on record in 2025: 37.6% of the adolescents it treated were above minimum risk, as were 9.88% of children ages 5 to 11, said psychologist Abel Saraiba.
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According to El Informador, the political leader says carrera 15, Nueva Segovia, Patarata and Bararida, among others, are commercial or mixed-use areas without updated regulation, with overflowing sewers and overloaded power lines; he wants a study for the new PDUL.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the Sociedad de Ingenieros Agrónomos y Agroindustriales, part of the Colegio de Ingenieros, will start at Barquisimeto's wholesale market and then visit the municipalities to update farm statistics; the report sets no date.
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According to Efecto Cocuyo, the Health Ministry declared a nationwide health alert through February 2027 over droughts, localized flooding, heat waves and outbreaks of dengue, zika, chikungunya and malaria, and urged garbage collection to remove mosquito breeding sites.
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According to El Impulso, the Sociedad Anticancerosa announced a free cancer screening day on October 19, starting early in the morning, at its Barquisimeto facilities, and warned of a rise in breast cancer cases among young women.
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According to Crónica.Uno, the cystic fibrosis units in Lara and four other states are practically dismantled and families travel to Caracas; treatment can cost up to $4,500 a month and a single bottle of enzymes $150.
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According to El Informador, the auditorium of Policlínica Barquisimeto will host a free panel on music therapy and the mother-baby bond on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:00 p.m., with music therapist Marilin Muñoz and two psychologists.
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According to Noticias Barquisimeto, more than 500 families in El Tamarindo, Palavecino, borrow water in buckets to cook and clean; the local water committee wants the asbestos-cement pipes, over 60 years old, replaced and has already redone 100 meters itself.
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According to Conmebol, the Vinotinto went ahead on a goal by Endrick Fuenmayor, but Brazil rallied in the second half with goals from Caetano, Odara and Murillo to win its ninth title in 11 editions in Barquisimeto; Colombia finished third.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the sewage overflow affects calle 17 at carrera 13, a school and a CDI clinic; at carrera 10 and calle 19 it has lasted more than 3 months. Residents want Hidrolara to replace about 25 linear meters of pipe.
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According to Efecto Cocuyo, the group used OONI Probe on seven providers, including Cantv, Movistar and Digitel, and found that after orders issued September 16 to 25, 74 domains were freed on at least one and only 38 on all.
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According to El Diario, party communications chief Claudia Macero said María Corina Machado would sit down «in full view of the people» with a clear agenda, and rejected postponing the presidential election until 2030.
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According to TalCual, the NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón documented the cases, including three military officers who had served their terms by September 2025; it says new proceedings are opened to prolong detention and wants release orders carried out.
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According to El Nacional, the Coalición Nacional Sindical and Clippve say the head of the Transport Ministry union was detained after a protest and is allegedly held at the GNB command in Las Acacias, with no official word in almost a month.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the request to regional authorities follows a pedestrian being struck and dragged about 100 meters; residents say the fast-moving road, lined by growing communities, keeps piling up accidents.
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According to El Informador, Peruvian Foreign Minister Alfonso Carlos Espá told NTN24 on October 2 that consular services are working, but the return of ambassadors depends on those releases; Peru broke off relations in July 2024.
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According to TalCual, the rate fell 0.5 points from August's 8.9%, after July's 19.9% spike following the June earthquakes; the BCV credits the slowdown to its coordination with the executive branch.
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According to the Gobernación de Lara, a team from the Hospital Universitario Dr. Luis Gómez López took second place in the scientific poster category at the VI Congreso Nacional de Cirugía de Tórax, held September 25-27 in Cúcuta, with a chest wall reconstruction case.
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According to Noticias Barquisimeto, witnesses said a man allegedly assaulted the on-duty doctor at Centro Médico San Francisco on October 3 and allegedly kept an older patient from being examined; the clinic's cameras recorded part of the altercation.
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According to El Informador, Lara visits Magallanes on October 6 in Valencia, hosts them on the 9th at 7:00 p.m. at the Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez with free admission, and on the 11th faces an Aguedo Felipe Alvarado all-star team at Chino Canónico stadium.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the Cuban first baseman reported to workouts on October 1; once he debuts he will be the import with the most seasons in club history, passing Tom Evans. General manager Carlos Oropeza praised his leadership.
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According to El Informador, residents of Tamaca parish say the cuts leave their communities without piped water, interrupt medical treatment and force drivers to wait up to 6 hours for fuel; they want investment in the power grid.
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According to El Impulso, the group notes the roughly 120-megawatt plant, opened in 2008, has been idle for more than 15 years, with corrosion and vandalism; turbine rehabilitation takes more than 6 months, and it wants an independent assessment.
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According to El Impulso, residents of San Francisco, Santa Isabel, Los Horcones, El Olivo, Las Américas, Piedras Blancas and Andrés Eloy Blanco say some sectors get water once a week and the cuts keep it from being pumped; they plan more protests.
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According to El Impulso, union general secretary Hilda Peña says the cuts disrupt students' sleep and wear out teachers, and asked the Education Ministry for an immediate plan; she advises sending children home early from classrooms without natural light.
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According to TalCual, a federal court in Miami imposed the sentence for failing to register as a foreign agent and for conspiracy to launder money, after a jury verdict in May; the contracts were worth up to $50 million.
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According to El Impulso, the Center for Insights in Survey Research study, conducted two months ago, found 74% support democracy, 40% see the economy as the top challenge and 45% want elections now, versus 52% who want preconditions first.
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According to El Impulso, republishing El Pitazo, Juan Crisóstomo Fernández put demand at more than 14,500 megawatts against about 12,000 of generation, and said the June 24 earthquakes cost 800 megawatts, 600 of them at Termocarabobo.
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According to El Impulso, the 3rd Trial Court with jurisdiction over terrorism cases acquitted the activist, arrested on February 9, 2024, and 3 others, and sentenced 10 people to 3 to 18 years for conspiracy and concealment.
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According to El Nacional, former vice minister Víctor Poleo and consultant José Aguilar estimate demand at 15,000 megawatts against generation of 12,000, a 20% shortfall, with daily cuts of 8 to 12 hours in states such as Zulia, Mérida and Táchira.
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According to El Nacional, the Inter-American Development Bank, without a working office in the country since 2019, approved a $1 million grant as its first aid to address the emergency from the June 24 earthquakes.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the tournament brings together clubs from more than 20 states from October 1 to 7 at the Napoleón Rodríguez gym and La Burbuja; Colinas de Santa Rosa, coached by Edgar Gómez, fields one of the youngest rosters.
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According to El Nacional, about 400 children are competing from October 1 to 12 in the preparatory level I division at the Cantaclaro, Antonio Herrera and Orlando Becerra fields in Torres municipality; the Liga Carlos Alberto Santeliz is organizing it.
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According to El Informador, Activos por la Luz recorded failures in 37 communities that day; Iribarren logged 26 outages and more than 140 hours, and Palavecino 9 outages and more than 50 hours. If your area loses power, report it at cabudare.com/servicios.
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According to El Informador, residents of Los Cerrajones, Pueblo Nuevo and Andrés Eloy Blanco (Guerrera Ana Soto parish) held a pot-banging protest on September 30 over nighttime cuts that last into the early morning; they want Corpoelec to publish a schedule.
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According to El Pitazo, growers meeting in Araure say $295 to $310 per quintal was agreed in August, but roasters allegedly pay $220 to $280, below a production cost of $340 to $360; they plan protests.
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According to La Prensa de Lara, the 12-kilometer pilgrimage to the Aregue shrine was scheduled for Saturday, October 3, with hymns and prayers; it is the municipality's main Marian devotion and is held on the first weekend of October.
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According to El Impulso, the citizen group counted 770 outages, 227 voltage fluctuations and 62 affected sectors (including reports from Portuguesa) in September; time without power rose 12% from August and 724% from September 2025.
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According to TalCual, the PUD will base it on the U.S. three-phase plan (stabilization, recovery and transition) and is calling for full freedom for political prisoners, an independent CNE, a firm election timetable and verifiable elections.
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According to El Impulso, the economist estimates growth of 6.7% this year (versus 9% in 2025) even though oil export revenue would nearly double, and projects 60% to 80% inflation in 2027.
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According to El Nacional, relatives of people detained for political reasons, students and civil society members gathered on October 1 outside CNE headquarters in Caracas to call for a presidential election, releases and a review of court cases.
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According to El Nacional, citing Reuters data, Venezuela exported 1.08 million barrels a day; shipments to the U.S. rose to 629,000 barrels a day and those to Europe fell from 260,000 to about 86,000.
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According to El Impulso, Misbely Pereira, director of Fundación Alzheimer Venezuela in Lara, warned that not all forgetfulness is normal and announced a 2.5 km walk on October 3 at Parque del Este in Barquisimeto, a forum on the 10th and a bike ride on the 11th.
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