Venezuela

• Sunday, July 15th 2018 - 22:20 UTC

  Measles strikes Yanomami tribes in Brazil and Venezuela

  

  Brazilian health authorites have reported 67 cases of measles, including one baby dead among Yanomami natives on the Venezuelan border and labelled the situation as “catastrophic.” The situation is by no means under control.

• Saturday, July 14th 2018 - 19:53 UTC

  Corruption unleashed: Venezuelan government denounced for enriching itself with aid funds

  

  According to a financial intelligence panel that met Friday in Cartagena, Colombia; in Venezuela, Maduro's government “uses food and humanitarian aid as a weapon for social control.”

• Saturday, July 14th 2018 - 07:48 UTC

  Venezuela’s oil crisis gets worse: Production keeps falling

  

  Venezuela’s oil production plunged by another 47,500 barrels per day (bpd) in June, compared to a month earlier. An exodus of workers and field shut downs were reported for the month, pointing to a grim near-term future that could see total production dip below 1 million barrels per day (mb/d) by the end of the year.

• Friday, July 6th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Trump planned invading Venezuela

  

  Associated Press (AP) revealed that last August, during a meeting in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump asked a question that startled his advisors: given that the situation in Venezuela threatens regional security, why does the United States not invades the South American country?

• Saturday, June 30th 2018 - 14:54 UTC

  Pence urges Latin America to isolate Venezuela which is falling to “dictatorship, deprivation and despair”

  

  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Latin American countries to help isolate crisis-stricken Venezuela, an ideological adversary of Washington that is struggling under a severe and prolonged economic crisis.

• Wednesday, June 27th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Pence in Brazil exposes US government's double standard on fleeing migrants

  

  United States Vice-president Mike Pence thanked Brazil on Tuesday for welcoming Venezuelans fleeing their country’s collapse, while warning Central Americans running from violence in their homelands not to attempt to enter the United States illegally.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Hundreds of arbitrary killings by Venezuela security forces, claims UN

  

  Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN's human rights body says. In the report it cites “shocking”accounts of young men being killed during operations, often in poor districts, over the past three years.

• Saturday, June 16th 2018 - 11:12 UTC

  World Health Organization update on suspected polio case in Venezuela

  

  Following unconfirmed reports on 8 June of suspected polio re-emergence in Venezuela, final laboratory testing has confirmed the cause of the paralysis is not wild poliovirus or vaccine-derived poliovirus, according to a release from WHO.

• Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Miami media says US$ 800 million in assets of Diosdado Cabello frozen in the US, but he flatly denies the version

  

  The U.S. government has frozen about US$ 800 million in assets from senior Venezuelan leader Diosdado Cabello Miami journalist Oscar Haza reported Tuesday during his morning radio show on Miami’s Spanish-language Zeta 92.3.

• Thursday, June 7th 2018 - 23:10 UTC

  The Uruguayan Foreign Ministry describes the number of immigrants arriving in the country as “never seen before”

  

  Immigration to Uruguay, Argentina and Chile has exploded exponentially in recent years. It is receiving an “unprecedented” daily requests for refuge in the southern country, according to the Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dianela Pi, who explained to MercoPress that “There are acts of discrimination and xenophobia that are emerging in Uruguay as never before” as a result of the migratory phenomenon. This wave comes mostly from citizens of Venezuelan origin.