Tag: Delcy Rodriguez

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Mudslide in Venezuela leaves dozens dead

  

  At least 22 people have been reported to have died in the Venezuelan town of Las Tejerías, in the central State of Aragua while more than 50 others were missing following a mudslide after heavy rains.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Duque remain distrusting of Maduro as reopening of borders not going so smoothly

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque was sceptical of the offer from Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who asked investors to return to that country.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  The bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia cleared for resumption of bilateral ties

  

  The land crossing between Venezuela and Colombia through the Simón Bolívar international bridge has been reopened Monday after 32 months, following the removal of the three containers which blocked the way, it was announced.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  Fear reigns among Venezuelans as six more zeros are to be removed from local currency

  

  Unrest reigned Thursday among Venezuelans as Friday's monetary reconversion which will remove six zeros from “sovereign bolivars” loomed over, prompting the exchange rate with the US dollar to skyrocket.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Uruguayan President: competition between countries must not prevail to fight covid-19

  

  During his speech at the XXVII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, which is held in Andorra although most participants make only video appearances, Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday launched an appeal to his fellow leaders to find new ways in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 05:24 UTC

  Maduro restricts the return of Venezuelan migrants and considers them a threat

  

  The Nicolás Maduro regime blames Venezuelan migrants for the increase in the spread of the coronavirus in Venezuela while hundreds of these emigrants, pushed by their limited survival options, remain stranded in makeshift camps in different cities of Colombia waiting to be able to cross into their country.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Turmoil in Spanish coalition: Transport minister meets Venezuelan vice president in EU territory

  

  Opposition parties in Spain are calling on the government to explain why one of its ministers met Venezuela’s vice-president in a secretive encounter onboard a private jet at Madrid airport.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 12:40 UTC

  Maduro will not attend UN General Assembly but will deliver 12m signatures denouncing US sanctions

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will not travel to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly later this month, but that two of his envoys would attend to denounce U.S. sanctions on the OPEC nation.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Maduro requested the resignation of his cabinet to make a “restructuring”

  

  On Sunday, the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, asked his executive cabinet to make his charges available to carry out a “restructuring”. This was confirmed by the vice president of the oil country, Delcy Rodríguez through her Twitter account, where she noted that “the President has requested the entire Executive Cabinet to put their charges to order for the purposes of a thorough restructuring of the methods and Bolivarian government operation to shield the Homeland from any threat!”

• Saturday, March 9th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Venezuela comes to a halt as the blackout extends for a second day

  

  Venezuela shut schools and suspended the workday on Friday as the worst blackout in decades paralyzed most of the troubled nation for a second day, spurring outrage among citizens already suffering from hyperinflation and a crippling recession.