Tag: Hugo Chávez

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Venezuela: One billion dollars in bribes and illicit foreign currency operations

  

  Venezuela’s former national treasurer admitted receiving over one billion dollars in bribes as part of illicit foreign currency operations that involved a local television mogul now indicted in U.S. courts, according to U.S. court documents unsealed on Tuesday.

• Friday, September 14th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  A Judge in Andorra has charged 29 Venezuela chavista officials with corruption

  

  A judge in Andorra has charged 29 Venezuelans with corruption - among them two former deputy ministers. Prosecutors allege that they were part of a network of corrupt officials who received US$ 2.3bn in bribes from companies in return for lucrative contracts with Venezuela's state-run oil company, PDVSA.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Hundreds of arbitrary killings by Venezuela security forces, claims UN

  

  Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN's human rights body says. In the report it cites “shocking”accounts of young men being killed during operations, often in poor districts, over the past three years.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  Maduro re-elected, but with massive abstention and other candidates call for fresh elections

  

  Venezuela’s populist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship. Victory for the 55-year-old former bus driver, who replaced Hugo Chavez after his death from cancer in 2013, may trigger a new round of western sanctions against the populist government as it grapples with a ruinous economic crisis.

• Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 11:10 UTC

  US oil company wins arbitration and Venezuela's PDVSA must pay US$ 2.04bn

  

  An international arbitration court has ordered Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA to pay ConocoPhillips US$ 2.04 billion for early dissolution of two joint ventures for producing oil in the OPEC-member country, the U.S. firm said.

• Saturday, April 21st 2018 - 06:31 UTC

  Unasur under pressure: six nations, including Brazil and Argentina, suspend their memberships

  

  Half of the nations belonging to Unasur, a South American bloc set up a decade ago to counter U.S. sway in the region, have decided to suspend their membership, a Brazilian official announced on Friday.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 18:51 UTC

  Venezuela: close to fraudulent elections

  

  Venezuela's National Assembly, with opposition majority, denounced on Wednesday the “undue” use of electoral material, noting that official papers that belongs to the National Electoral Council (CNE) was found in gambling centers to print bet vouchers and presented its final report about the investigation into the case of the ex-rebel agent, Oscar Pérez.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Unicef and Caritas confirm growing and extended malnutrition in Venezuela

  

  The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said it was seeing clear signs of a growing malnutrition crisis in Venezuela, but it lacked data to give precise information and to tackle the problem effectively.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Petro: The cryptocurrency that is not cryptocurrency

  

  According to the journalist specialized in technology Edgar Rincon, the solution devised by the Venezuelan government to evade the “strong and cruel sanctions of the international community to Venezuela”, the Petro, is not a cryptocurrency because “within the guidelines of the cryptocurrency guide does not fit. ”

• Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 08:14 UTC

  Corbyn condemns “violence by all sides”, but avoids criticizing Maduro

  

  Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the “violence done by all sides” in the Venezuela conflict but stopped short of criticising president, Nicolas Maduro.