Tag: María Corina Machado

• Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 14:53 UTC

  Attack on Venezuelan opposition leader said to be slow-motion assassination

  

  Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana said Wednesday's attack against Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was to poison her with a delayed-effect substance.

• Monday, January 22nd 2018 - 20:35 UTC

  VIDEOS - Clashes between protesters and officials in Venezuela

  

  Security officials are dispersing with pellets and tear gas opposition concentration in front of the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, after the opposition convened a peaceful demonstration in protest against the government. So far at least 3 people have been injured by pellets in the confrontation. The protesters were refuging at the University and erected barricades in the street, facing with stones and molotovs the officials while they shoot and throw tear gas bombs inside the university headquarters, according to ReporteYA

• Wednesday, August 5th 2015 - 08:47 UTC

  US State Department calls on Venezuela to lift ban on opposition candidates

  

  The United States on Tuesday called on Venezuela to reverse a ban on opposition members from holding office and participating in the 6 December parliamentary elections. Washington made the request after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she had tried to register on Monday as a candidate but her application was rejected.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 05:59 UTC

  Venezuelan government bans opposition leader from running in congressional election

  

  Venezuelan election officials rejected a high-profile opposition leader's attempt to register as a candidate Monday for upcoming congressional elections. Former congresswoman Maria Corina Machado announced that the National Elections Council had rejected her attempt to register to run in the Dec. 6 elections and called it a grotesque violation of her rights.

• Friday, June 19th 2015 - 23:36 UTC

  Venezuelan pickets stone and threaten visiting Brazilian senators

  

  Brazilian senators seeking on Thursday to visit jailed opposition leaders in Venezuela said their minibus was stoned and blocked, forcing them to return to the airport. The group of opposition senators had planned to drive from the coastal airport of Maiquetía to the capital Caracas and then on to a military jail where hard-line opposition leader Leopoldo López has been for more than a year.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2015 - 06:39 UTC

  Maduro asks the Assembly for expanded powers to fight 'imperialism'

  

  President Nicolas Maduro responded to new U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan officials by asking legislators Tuesday to give him expanded powers in the name of fighting imperialism. Government critics called it a power grab.

• Wednesday, February 25th 2015 - 05:20 UTC

  Teenager shot dead during protests further polarizes political climate in Venezuela

  

  A teenager was killed during a protest on Tuesday in the western city of San Cristobal, state officials said, as tensions rise in Venezuela amid an economic crisis and a government crackdown on the political opposition.

• Thursday, December 4th 2014 - 05:43 UTC

  Maduro's regime charges opposition leader Corina Machado with 'sedition'

  

  Venezuela has indicted hard-line opposition leader María Corina Machado on charges of sedition claiming she took part in an alleged plot to kill president Nicolas Maduro, the state prosecutor's office confirmed.

• Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 08:23 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition lawmaker and supporters cleared from square with tear gas

  

  Venezuelan troops dispersed opposition demonstrators with tear gas on Tuesday and blocked anti-government activist Maria Corina Machado, recently stripped of her seat in the National Assembly, from reaching the legislature.

• Tuesday, March 25th 2014 - 09:37 UTC

  Unasur delegation expected Tuesday in Caracas 'to follow the political dialogue'

  

  The Unasur (Union of South American Nations) committee to follow the political dialogue in Venezuela will be meeting in Caracas Tuesday and Wednesday this week in Caracas, reported officially the Ecuadorean Foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño.