Tag: Diosdado Cabello

• Saturday, December 17th 2016 - 09:13 UTC

  Macri's Argentina back from world isolation except from Venezuela and Iran

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri said Friday that “we have come from years of isolation and bad relations with almost all countries except Venezuela and Iran.” He added that “this year we have experienced a Copernican change in that sense.”

• Friday, December 16th 2016 - 11:34 UTC

  Venezuelan leader calls Macri “coward” and says Argentine ambassador should leave the country

  

  Diosdado Cabello, considered one of the three most powerful persons in Venezuela called Argentine president Mauricio Macri a “coward”, described the Argentine ambassador in Caracas as an “enemy” and suggested that if he had any dignity left he should pack his suitcase and leave Venezuela.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2016 - 09:20 UTC

  Diphtheria outbreak in Venezuela; CIA “germ warfare” claims the Chavista government

  

  Diphtheria, an extremely contagious disease that has been mostly eradicated worldwide through vaccination, has reappeared in Venezuela and so far has killed four children with another twenty cases reported in just one month. The reappearance of diphtheria, a disease not seen in Venezuela in more than 20 years, is yet the worst symptom of the country's collapsed health system.

• Wednesday, January 13th 2016 - 05:34 UTC

  Venezuela's 'super majority' power struggle paralyzes government

  

  Venezuela sank deeper into a messy political crisis Tuesday as the opposition-controlled National Assembly suspended its session after the Supreme Court declared it null and void. Speaking before a nearly empty chamber, speaker Henry Ramos Allup, a fierce opponent of President Nicolas Maduro, declared the National Assembly lacked a quorum and would reconvene Wednesday morning.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2015 - 08:37 UTC

  Venezuela claims Maduro's nephews held in the US on cocaine smuggling charges were 'kidnapped'

  

  Two men said to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who are being held in the United States on cocaine smuggling charges were “kidnapped,” a senior member of the ruling Socialist Party said on Monday.

• Monday, November 16th 2015 - 07:10 UTC

  Uruguay's ruling Broad Front coalition divided over Venezuela

  

  The strong 16 pages long letter sent by OAS (Organization of American States) secretary general Luis Almagro to Venezuelan electoral officials calling for transparency, international observers and freeing political prisoners, ahead of December 6 legislative elections, triggered an immediate furious insulting reaction from Venezuela's strongman Diosdado Cabello, but also again exposed a growing rift in the Uruguayan government.

• Friday, November 13th 2015 - 08:32 UTC

  Venezuela calls OAS “the world's most perverted, corrupt and discredited organization”

  

  Key Venezuelan government officials launched a furious broadside at the Organization of American States (OAS), a day after its secretary general, Luis Almagro, criticized Caracas and questioned the fairness of the upcoming December 6 parliamentary polls.

• Monday, June 1st 2015 - 07:32 UTC

  Cabello denies cocaine trafficking and will file complaints against media reports in Spain and US

  

  Venezuelan parliament chief Diosdado Cabello said in an interview on Sunday that he plans to file lawsuits in Spain and the United States following media reports that link him and other top officials to cocaine trafficking and money laundering.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Venezuelan government targets opposition leader Capriles for making “false allegations”

  

  Barely one week after Venezuela’s President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Diosdado Cabello filed a defamation suit against 22 media executives and editors for publishing reports linking him to an international drug-trafficking, another high-level minister announced they would be filing suit against opposition leader Henrique Capriles for making “false allegations.”

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 04:42 UTC

  US targets Venezuela's second strongest man for alleged cocaine trafficking

  

  Despite persistent denials of any wrongdoing from Caracas, US authorities are currently investigating Venezuela’s powerful parliamentary chief, Diosdado Cabello, and other senior officials over alleged cocaine-trafficking and money-laundering, the Wall Street Journal reported.