CARACAS: Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday extended by three month emergency powers to shore up the country's crippled economy, and said that he expects to continue such extensions through 2017.

Speaking in a broadcast address to the nation, Maduro said that he signed a new emergency decree "that will allow us during the months of May, June, July" to "recover the country's productive capacity."

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