Tag: Caracas

• Friday, February 20th 2015 - 03:54 UTC

  Maduro's agents arrest metropolitan Caracas mayor on charges of coup attempt

  

  Venezuelan intelligence agents arrested on Thursday opposition leader and Caracas metropolitan mayor Antonio Ledezma, witnesses said, after accusations he was involved in a coup attempt against President Nicolás Maduro.

• Monday, April 7th 2014 - 06:21 UTC

  UN 'deep concern' over violence in Venezuela; supports people's right to protest peacefully

  

  The United Nations office in Venezuela expressed deep concern over the “high human cost” of anti-government protests which have left 39 people dead during two months of unrest. Hundreds more have been detained or injured in clashes with security forces.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 06:08 UTC

  Venezuela’s only opposition television network sold to a group close to the government

  

  Globovision, Venezuela's only opposition television network which had a long history of clashes with the populist government of deceased President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution, was sold Monday and will change its critical coverage, network officials said.
  “This channel already has been sold off,” the network's website said in a statement.

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 07:17 UTC

  Hundreds of thousands turn out to honour President Hugo Chavez

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Hugo Chavez's supporters paraded his coffin draped in Venezuela’s blue, red and yellow national flag through the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in an emotional outpouring.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2013 - 02:06 UTC

  Venezuela announces the death of President Hugo Chavez

  

  Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro announced during a nation-wide transmission that President Hugo Chávez “has died today at 4:25pm.”

• Friday, December 7th 2012 - 17:04 UTC

  Chavez back in Venezuela after ten days in Cuba: “where’s the party”

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned from Cuba on Friday following cancer-related medical treatment, walking and joking at the airport in a first public appearance in three weeks that quashed rumours he might have been at death's door.

• Saturday, April 30th 2011 - 10:17 UTC

  CELAC has not been created to exclude the US or Spain, says Iglesias

  

  The head of the Ibero-American Secretariat Enrique Iglesias denied that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, to be created next July pretends to take distance from the United States or Spain.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 05:54 UTC

  Venezuela’s most populated areas suffer another major blackout

  

  Blackouts blamed on forest fires left without power whole areas of north and central Venezuela, including Caracas, officials said. The power outages began last Thursday due to the collapse of electrical lines located 250 kilometres west of Caracas, Electricity Minister Ali Rodriguez said.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 00:50 UTC

  Venezuela’s homicide rate exposes vulnerable flank of President Chavez

  

  Venezuelan authorities say they recorded 48 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants last year, making it one of the most dangerous places in South America. Venezuela has a population of 28 million and a report for United Nations last year put the homicide rate for South America as a whole around 20 per 100.000 people.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 21:08 UTC

  Sunday’s results change Chavez prospects for the 2012 presidential election

  

  President Hugo Chavez Venezuelan United Socialist Party, PSUV finally obtained 98 seats in last Sunday’s legislative election while the opposition managed 65, according to the primary proclamations based on official data from the country’s different regions.