Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 22:21 UTC

  Opposition candidate claims Argentina owes Venezuela 13billion dollars in oil contracts

  

  The opposition candidate in Venezuela’s next Sunday’s presidential again pounded on his country’s foreign policy and claimed that Argentina has a pending debt of 13 billion dollars arising from oil contracts.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2013 - 05:21 UTC

  Maduro’s fiery partner is the most powerful woman in Venezuela

  

  A tough criminal and labor lawyer who helped win Hugo Chavez's release from prison after a failed coup two decades ago, Venezuela's former attorney general Cilia Flores has since never been far from the circle of power around the late populist leader.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 04:51 UTC

  Capriles massive rally in Caracas but still trailing Maduro will less than a week

  

  With less than a week for 14 April, hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday crammed Caracas' streets in what Venezuelan opposition presidential hopeful Henrique Capriles, trailing in the polls, called a fast-changing tide.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 07:03 UTC

  Maduro launches presidential campaign saying ‘Chavez’s spirit’ appeared to him in the form of a singing bird

  

  Ruling-party presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday at the childhood home of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez that he felt that his deceased mentor appeared to him in the form of a “little bird”, blessed him and made a strong call ‘on to (electoral) battle’.

• Thursday, March 21st 2013 - 06:36 UTC

  Capriles says that with the devaluations Maduro is destroying the 14 years of Chavez achievement

  

  Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles claimed that acting president Nicolas Maduro with his latest decision approving a new devaluation of the local currency Bolivar is destroying the country, and he is achieving it in the hundred days he has been running the government.

• Thursday, March 21st 2013 - 06:30 UTC

  Venezuela plays the ‘US interference card’ suspends dialogue with Washington

  

  The Venezuelan government said on Wednesday it has suspended a “channel of communications” with Washington as it escalates tension and polarizes public opinion ahead of elections to replace the late president Hugo Chavez.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  Venezuelan presidential candidate Capriles pledges “not another drop of oil to Cuba”

  

  Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate on Monday vowed to end the OPEC nation's shipments of subsidized oil to the Castro brothers regime in Cuba, slamming acting President as a puppet of Havana.

• Saturday, March 16th 2013 - 07:41 UTC

  Millions turned out in Caracas for the final farewell to Hugo Chavez

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on Friday to bid a final farewell to late president Hugo Chavez a month before elections to pick his successor.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 00:12 UTC

  ”Absolute confidence” of the Cuban regime in Nicolas Maduro

  

  President Raul Castro expressed “absolute confidence” in Hugo Chavez's successors, after returning from the populist leader's funeral in Caracas, the Cuban press reported Sunday.

• Sunday, March 10th 2013 - 01:52 UTC

  Venezuela announces snap presidential election for April 14

  

  Venezuela announced Saturday that it will hold a presidential election to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez on April 14 after his political heir took office. The national electoral council set the date one day after Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor, was sworn in as acting president in a ceremony largely boycotted by the opposition, which slammed it as unconstitutional.