Tag: Aruba

• Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

  Aruba, Venezuela resume bilateral trade after 4 years

  

  After a four-year hiatus, trade between Aruba and Venezuela resumed Monday with the arrival of 80 tons of merchandise from the continent to the island, marking the resumption of trade relations between the two countries.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Caracas to resume ties with Caribbean Dutch overseas territories gradually

  

  After resuming diplomatic ties with Colombia, the Venezuelan administration of President Nicolás Maduro is now advancing on its return to the international community through negotiations with The Netherlands to restore links with the European kingdom's islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Venezuela opens borders with Aruba and Brazil; Colombia remains closed

  

  The Venezuelan government is seeking to ease the country's isolation, reopening borders with Aruba and Brazil after shutting off sea and land access in February to block the opposition from delivering humanitarian aid.

• Thursday, July 31st 2014 - 07:29 UTC

  US imposes travel restriction on a number of Venezuelan officials

  

  The United States is imposing travel restrictions on a number of Venezuelan officials. Washington did not specify how many people would be affected, but said those “who have been responsible for or complicit in human rights abuses” would not be “welcome” in the US.

• Monday, July 28th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Dutch government releases former Venezuelan general retained on DEA request

  

  The Dutch government released a former Venezuelan general who was detained on US drug charges when he arrived in Aruba to serve as his country's consul on the Dutch Caribbean island, sending him home Sunday night and defusing a diplomatic fight with its neighbor.

• Saturday, July 26th 2014 - 06:04 UTC

  Venezuelan general retained in Aruba to be extradited to the US

  

  A judge in Aruba ruled Friday that the highest-ranking Venezuelan official ever arrested on a U.S. warrant will remain behind bars pending an extradition request on drug charges. Hugo Carvajal, a former head of Venezuelan military intelligence and close confidant of the late president Hugo Chavez, was arrested upon arriving at Aruba’s airport, officials said Thursday.