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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 11:49 UTC

Tag: Venezuela

  • Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 11:39 UTC

    Maduro avoids impeachment, begins dialogue but must change

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro must change to avoid impeachment

    Opposition leaders agree to halt impeachment procudres against the Venezuelan President, but demanded that all politicial prisoners be released and elections are held rather soon.Venezuela's opposition-led Parliament, postponed on Tuesday the beginning of impeachment procedures against President Nicolas Maduro in view of a nascent dialogue with the Government, National Assembly Speaker Henry Ramos Allup announced.

  • Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 02:29 UTC

    Maduro and opposition leaders meet under the mediation of Vatican envoys

    Maduro met in Caracas with five opposition leaders, including Democratic Unity coalition secretary-general Jesus Torrealba and opposition governor Henri Falcon.

    For the first time in at least two years, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his political team have met with several opposition leaders in attempt to defuse the country’s political crisis. The opposition’s main demand is to revive a suspended a recall referendum that could lead to the ouster of President Maduro. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in recent days to support to recall effort.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2016 - 10:29 UTC

    Macri and Vazquez agree that the trade approach to China should be done from Mercosur

    Macri said that his government understands Uruguay´s need to have access to other markets and open to the world's second largest economy.

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri promised his Uruguayan peer Tabare Vazquez to look into the draft of a Uruguay/China free trade deal, and expressed their deep concern about political events in Venezuela suggesting that under the current circumstances the Nicolas Maduro government cannot be considered a member of Mercosur.

  • Monday, October 24th 2016 - 10:50 UTC

    Venezuela opposition claims Maduro has committed a coup d'état and calls for active defense of the constitution

    In an emergency opposition lawmakers called on Venezuelans to “actively defend” the constitution claiming Maduro's has broken constitutional order

    Venezuela's opposition-majority legislature declared on Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro's government had committed a coup d'etat by blocking a referendum on removing him from power, vowing mass protests and international pressure.

  • Tuesday, October 11th 2016 - 04:11 UTC

    Hugo Chavez Peace Prize awarded to Vladimir Putin by Maduro

    “I've decided to create the Hugo Chavez prize for peace and sovereignty,” Maduro said during a broadcast to unveil a statue of Chavez designed by a Russian artist.

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday announced the creation of peace prize in honor of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, and said he was awarding it to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The announcement comes on the same day that the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize to Juan Manuel Santos, president of neighboring Colombia, for his role in negotiating a peace agreement with Marxist FARC rebels.

  • Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 11:55 UTC

    Macri and Temer reaffirm commitment to strengthen Mercosur

    The pair held an official meeting in Buenos Aires and later at a press conference remarked their two countries' stances vis-a-vis the present and future of Mercosur

    Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his Brazilian counterpart, Michel Temer, agreed on Monday on the need to strengthen Mercosur and to make its rules more “flexible” to ”give a certain autonomy to the (member) states in their international relations.”

  • Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 07:40 UTC

    Temer visits Macri to address trade and making Mercosur more flexible and universal

    Although Macri and Temer have had some previous brief meetings, this will be the first formal bilateral meeting since the Brazilian president was confirmed.

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri will be receiving his Brazilian peer Michel Temer in Buenos Aires on Monday morning to address bilateral relations in several fields, mainly political, trade, Mercosur, and security and development in the long shared border areas. According to official sources Temer´s delegation arrives with foreign minister Jose Serra, Industry and trade minister Marcos Pereira and head of defense Raul Jungmann.

  • Wednesday, September 28th 2016 - 09:33 UTC

    Kerry and Maduro meet in Cartagena and agree to continue bilateral discussions

    “Kerry spoke of our concern about the economic and political challenges that have affected millions of Venezuelans”, said State Department Spokesman John Kirby.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, the first formal encounter between the two since Kerry became the top U.S. diplomat. The two sat down together after a ceremony in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias to mark the signing of a peace agreement to end a 52-year armed conflict.

  • Thursday, September 15th 2016 - 10:40 UTC

    Uruguay admits “consensus support” to remove Venezuela from Mercosur rotating chair

    “If Uruguay had opposed the declaration, Mercosur would have been in full paralysis” argued Cancela regarding the Mercosur consensus statement

    Uruguay's deputy foreign minister Jose Luis Cancela said that if Uruguay had not complied with the other Mercosur three founding members' joint declaration ignoring Venezuela's presidency and demanding it complies with the group's legislation and treaties, “Mercosur would have been launched into a period of full paralysis”.

  • Wednesday, September 14th 2016 - 08:28 UTC

    Venezuela could lose Mercosur membership if it does not comply with the block's rules

    Venezuela is expected to must approve an estimated 300 rules and regulations, and incorporate some thirty international treaties by next December

    Mercosur full members are working on a resolution calling on Venezuela to comply with all rules, regulations and international treaties of the block, which should be incorporated by next December, and if not the country could lose its membership, according to Uruguayan foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa.