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LatinNews Daily - 12 July 2016
Venezuela’s Maduro decrees superpowers for head of the military
Development: On 11 July Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro placed the defence minister and newly re-ratified head of the armed forces, General Vladimir Padrino López, at the head of a new civil-military national command for food supply, to which the rest of the government, apparently, will be subordinate.
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