Tag: Caracas

• Thursday, May 2nd 2019 - 18:01 UTC

  Maduro on the hunt: Court of Venezuela orders apprehension against Leopoldo Lopez

  

  A Caracas Court released this Thursday an arrest warrant against the leader of the opposition party Voluntad Popular, Leopoldo López, for “violating” the domiciliary arrest measure, Venezuelan Supreme Court announced.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2019 - 05:00 UTC

  The military revolt against Maduro fizzling out; Guaido calls for a major protest rally on Wednesday

  

  Demonstrators clashed violently with police on the streets of the Venezuelan capital on Tuesday, spurred by opposition leader Juan Guaido's call on the military to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro, whose government said it was putting down an attempted coup.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Guaidó forced to cancel a Sunday rally since he was blocked from attending

  

  The leader of Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly, Juan Guaido, canceled a rally scheduled to be held in the country's fourth-largest city on Sunday and said the “dictatorship” had prevented him from entering.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Maduro increasing the civilian militia by a million to three million by end of 2019

  

  Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has said he wants a million more people to join his civilian militia by the end of the year. The call to expand the militia - which answers directly to Mr. Maduro - comes as opposition leader Juan Guaidó seeks to persuade the Venezuelan military to abandon the president. So far the military has stayed loyal.

• Saturday, March 16th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Venezuelan continued oil fallout presents a challenge for global markets, says IEA

  

  A major advisor to energy producing nations has suggested that the continued fallout from Venezuela could present a “challenge” for global oil markets. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that crude supplies from Venezuela are at risk of falling sharply in the midst of an electricity crisis which has paralyzed the country recently.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 20:09 UTC

  The best and the worst city to live in Latin America

  

  Caracas, in the last place, and Montevideo ranks as the two opposite poles of the list of cities ordered by quality of life in Latin America in 2019, according to Mercer. The capital of Austria, Vienna, ranked for the tenth consecutive year as the best in the world.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Desperate Caracas residents look for water at the sewage system

  

  As Venezuela's five-day power blackout left homes without water, Lilibeth Tejedor found herself looking for it on Monday in the last place she would have imagined: a drain pipe feeding into a river carrying sewage through the capital, Caracas.

• Friday, March 8th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Major blackout in Venezuela; Caracas in complete darkness: “light will return when Maduro is removed”

  

  Most of Venezuela has been hit by a continuing electricity blackout that began on Thursday afternoon. The power cut plunged the capital Caracas into almost complete darkness during rush hour and has extended to the vast majority of the country.

• Tuesday, February 19th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Macri on a state visit to India condemns terrorism and signs ten agreements

  

  India and Argentina inked ten agreements including in defense, agriculture, space, pharmaceuticals, Antarctic cooperation, agriculture, IT and nuclear cooperation. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, accompanied by a high-level official delegation and around 100 top industry representatives of Argentine companies held bilateral talks on Monday.

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Guaido delivers a “symbolic” first cargo of humanitarian aid

  

  Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaido, said on Monday his team had delivered a first cargo of the humanitarian aid that has become a flashpoint in his tussle with President Nicolas Maduro, without specifying how it had received it.