Tag: Jorge Rodriguez

• Thursday, July 2nd 2026 - 08:51 UTC

  Venezuela's quake toll passes 2,295 a week on, with tens of thousands still unaccounted for

  

  A week after the twin earthquake that struck north-central Venezuela, the official toll rose to at least 2,295 dead and 11,267 injured, according to National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez, who has been the main voice for the figures since the disaster. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the country, Gianluca Rampolla, warned that the number “will keep growing” as rescue and debris-removal work advances.

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• Friday, June 19th 2026 - 06:49 UTC

  US-backed opposition figure Figuera returns to Venezuela to negotiate a 'credible' electoral body

  

  Opposition figure Dinorah Figuera, president of the National Assembly elected in 2015 and exiled in Spain for nearly eight years, returned to Venezuela on Thursday at the invitation of the US State Department to negotiate a “credible” electoral authority with Delcy Rodríguez's interim government. The return is part of Washington's plan for a democratic transition in the country.

• Wednesday, March 18th 2026 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuelan National Assembly speaker meets US Senate envoys

  

  Venezuelan National Assembly speaker Jorge Rodríguez said on Wednesday that he met in Caracas with representatives of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Laura Dogu, in the latest sign of the bilateral opening that began after January’s political shift. Rodríguez said the agenda forms part of a dialogue “always based on mutual respect and cooperation between nations.”

• Tuesday, February 10th 2026 - 20:59 UTC

  Families of political prisoners protest outside Venezuela’s National Assembly, question amnesty bill

  

  Families of political prisoners and activists gathered on Tuesday outside Venezuela’s National Assembly in central Caracas, calling for the release of detainees who remain behind bars and challenging the scope of a government-backed amnesty bill.

• Saturday, February 7th 2026 - 01:30 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition flags “serious omissions” in amnesty bill, demands full release

  

  Venezuela’s main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), on Friday challenged what it called “serious omissions” in a proposed amnesty law promoted by acting President Delcy Rodríguez and approved in a first debate by the chavista-controlled National Assembly.

• Thursday, January 8th 2026 - 20:55 UTC

  Venezuela releases three Argentine political prisoners

  

  Venezuela's interim Government of caretaker President Delcy Rodríguez released a series of foreign and domestic political prisoners on Thursday, including three Argentine nationals, it was reported in Caracas.

• Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 10:30 UTC

  Conspiracy theories: Why did Maduro fall so quickly?

  

  Rumors, speculation, and conspiracy theories of all kinds are surfacing about who betrayed former Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro so that US troops could abduct him from Caracas and make him stand trial in New York.

• 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.