Tag: Jorge Rodriguez

• Wednesday, March 19th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

  Caracas warns against US travel

  

  Venezuela's Bolivarian Government issued earlier this week a travel advisory warning its citizens against visiting the United States following Washington's deportation of many Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador's maximum security Cecot prison.

• Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 10:42 UTC

  Venezuela to hold commune elections this weekend

  

  The Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro heads for Sunday's commune elections with the results of the July 28 presidential polls questioned by about half of the world's governments. Communes are new forms of social organization based on self-management, Agência Brasil explained. There are 4,500 of them nationwide. Communal councils are some sort of permanent popular assemblies of residents of a neighborhood or rural area.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 02:34 UTC

  Assembly Speaker claims NGOs in Venezuela respond to Washington

  

  Venezuelan National Assembly Speaker Jorge Rodríguez claimed Monday that Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were Trojan horses used by Washington to destabilize his country.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2023 - 09:29 UTC

  Deal between Venezuelan gov't and opposition welcomed worldwide

  

  The agreement signed Tuesday in Barbados between the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro and the main opposition leaders has been welcomed by the European Union, the United States, Brazil, and Argentina among other players on the world stage.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Venezuela: Money scam by opposition leaders unveiled by Maduro’s Government

  

  Venezuela’s National Assembly Speaker, Jorge Rodríguez – recognized by Nicolás Maduro’s Government – Tuesday denounced opposition leaders were behind a scam plan to “steal” more than 53 million dollars of Venezuela's money frozen in the United States.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Maduro says barracks assailants are refuging in Brazil and asks Bolsonaro to return the stolen weapons

  

  The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said Monday that 11 people have been arrested in connection with an assault early Sunday at a military post in the south of the country and said that some of those involved were in Brazil along with the stolen weapons of the installation.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 10:52 UTC

  Maduro government in talks with a splintered group from Guaido's opposition

  

  Venezuela's government said on Monday it was evaluating sending some of its lawmakers back to the opposition-controlled National Assembly, which President Nicolas Maduro has called an illegal institution, as part of new talks with one opposition faction.

• Wednesday, July 24th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  “Electromagnetic attack” behind massive power cut, Venezuelan minister explains

  

  Venezuela's Communication and Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez Tuesday revealed that according to preliminary inquiries, the probable cause of the massive blackout on Monday, which hit most parts of Venezuela, including the capital Caracas, was “an electromagnetic attack.”

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  OAS meets in Medellín and Maduro claims he derailed a coup sponsored by US, Chile and Colombia

  

  Venezuela's government said on Wednesday it had derailed a coup bid, claiming the United States, Colombia and Chile colluded in a military plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro and install a general and former defense minister in his place.

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Norway, the seat for discussions between Venezuelan officials and opposition?

  

  Representatives of Venezuela's government and the opposition have traveled to Norway to discuss potential options following a failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro, according to four opposition sources.