Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 18:34 UTC

  Venezuelan FM criticizes EU's decision to extend sanctions on gov't leaders

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia Thursday criticized the European Union's decision to uphold sanctions against over 50 officials of the Nicolás Maduro administration ahead of Sunday's elections.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Venezuelan workers demand better salaries

  

  Venezuelan workers Wednesday took to the streets Wednesday to demand a change in the country's policies together with better pay for them and their families.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Venezuelan aircraft banned in the US carries Evo Morales to Buenos Aires

  

  Former Bolivian President Evo Morales landed in Buenos Aires aboard a Venezuela-registered aircraft blacklisted by the United States Treasury Department.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 00:10 UTC

  Maduro associate extradited from Cape Verde to face criminal charges in Miami; Venezuela claims “kidnapping”

  

  The Venezuelan government walked out of negotiations with the opposition following on the extradition of Colombian businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde to the United States where he faces trial on money laundering and corruption.

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Death of Venezuelan political prisoner rattles Washington DC

  

  Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Luis Almagro Thursday pledged he would ask the United Nations to request the exhumation and autopsy of the late Venezuelan General Raúl Baduel, who died of COVID-19 while incarcerated by the Nicolás Maduro regime for alleged political crimes.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Duque remain distrusting of Maduro as reopening of borders not going so smoothly

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque was sceptical of the offer from Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who asked investors to return to that country.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  The bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia cleared for resumption of bilateral ties

  

  The land crossing between Venezuela and Colombia through the Simón Bolívar international bridge has been reopened Monday after 32 months, following the removal of the three containers which blocked the way, it was announced.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Maduro appoints jailed ally, with pending extradition to US, to political talks with the opposition in Mexico

  

  Venezuela has announced that it will incorporate the government delegation in negotiations with the political opposition in Mexico, Alex Saab, a close ally jailed in Cape Verde, Africa who is to be extradited to the United States on corruption and money laundering charges.

• Thursday, September 9th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Maduro's front man to be extradited to the United States; Venezuela complains of an arbitrary ruling

  

  The Constitutional Tribunal from Cape Verde ruled this week that Colombian businessman Alex Saab considered a front man for Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro can be extradited to the United States, where he faces charges of corruption and money laundering.

• Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  ”How is my friend President Fernandez getting along?

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez is planning to succeed his Mexican peer next 17 September as chair of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Estates, CELAC, one of several regional organizations in the continent, but his luck seems to be in the will of a gnome dictator in one of the Caribbean Commonwealth islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.