Tag: Carabobo

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 09:49 UTC

  Mutiny and fire leave dozens dead in Venezuelan jail; UN calls for a “thorough investigation”

  

  68 inmates lost their lives and more than 30 were injured during a riot and a fire that occurred in an overpopulated police prison in Valencia, in central Venezuela.

• Tuesday, July 24th 2012 - 20:57 UTC

  Chavez in a veiled threat tells Spain’s Repsol to seek agreement with Argentina

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez advised Repsol to seek a friendly agreement in its dispute with Argentina and noted that the Spanish energy company held important assets in his country.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Thousands of tons of undistributed food had to be destroyed in Venezuela

  

  Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Neidy Rosal claimed before the country’s Prosecutors Office that an estimated 160.000 tons of food, in decomposing conditions, were being destroyed by the government’s Food Production and Distribution Office, Pvdal, in the state of Carabobo.