Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

  Essequibo conflict: Brazil sending observer to Maduro-Ali meeting

  

  The Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula a Silva shall be sending a delegation headed by former Foreign Minister and current presidential advisor on international affairs Celso Amorim to Thursday's meeting between the leaders of Guyana and Venezuelan in St Vincent and the Grenadines to discuss the Guiana Essequiba issue, it was reported in Brasilia.

• Saturday, December 9th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Essequibo: Guyanese president hopes Maduro will not act recklessly

  

  Guyanese President Irfaan Ali said that Venezuela's latest actions regarding the dispute over the Guaiana Essequiba were “a regional threat” and hoped Nicolás Maduro's regime would not act “in an adventurous and very irresponsible manner.”

• Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Military build-up reported as tension between Venezuela and Guyana escalates

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Tuesday announced the creation of a military division for the Guiana Essequiba area, which the country claims as its own, particularly after Sunday's referendum, it was reported in Caracas. The Essequibo is home to 125,000 of Guyana's 800,000 citizens.

• Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Maduro to grant oil-drilling licenses in Essequibo

  

  Although Venezuela does not have since 1899 the effective control of the Essequibo area disputed with Guyana, President Nicolás Maduro announced Tuesday that he planned to grant oil-drilling licenses after Sunday's referendum recognized the South American country's alleged rights over the territory.

• Monday, December 4th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Venezuelans vote to annex Essequiba Guiana amid poor turnout

  

  Despite a poor turnout, Venezuelan authorities Sunday confirmed 95.93% of 10,554,320 voting Venezuelans replied “aye” in a non-binding referendum to the question of whether or not to annex the Essequiba Guiana, a 160,000 square-kilometer region the country claims as its own but which has been under Guyanan control for over a century.

• Friday, December 1st 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  Will Maduro attempt to take over Guyana's Esequibo? Brazil sends troops to the area

  

  Brazil announced “intensified defensive actions” along its northern border fearing a possible invasion of Guyana by the dictatorial regime of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. This Friday the UN International Court is expected to halt a referendum, on a disputed area between the two neighbors, which is seen as “an exercise in forced annexation” by Venezuela.

• Thursday, November 16th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

  Paraguay and Venezuela resume diplomatic ties

  

  Paraguay and Venezuela agreed on Wednesday to resume diplomatic ties cut under former Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez in January 2019. At that time, the then-president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, proclaimed himself president of a government that ended up in exile despite the backing of the international community and eventually vanished like a soap bubble.

• Sunday, October 22nd 2023 - 23:17 UTC

  In the hope of political change in 2024, thousands vote in Venezuela's opposition primaries

  

  Thousands of Venezuelans voted this Sunday in the opposition primaries in the hope of a change of president in 2024, a long race that citizens opposed to chavismo took on with enthusiasm, with the purpose of voting. Liberal María Corina Machado, a pariah of the Venezuelan opposition for the past decade, is now emerging as a strong favorite.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2023 - 09:29 UTC

  Deal between Venezuelan gov't and opposition welcomed worldwide

  

  The agreement signed Tuesday in Barbados between the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro and the main opposition leaders has been welcomed by the European Union, the United States, Brazil, and Argentina among other players on the world stage.

• Thursday, September 14th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  China holds Venezuela as an all-time strategic partner

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday announced after meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro that relations between both countries would be strengthened to the point where the South American nation would become an “all-weather strategic level,” it was reported from Beijing.