Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Putin approves a US$ 4bn loan to Venezuela

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying the protocol to the intergovernmental agreement on providing a loan to Venezuela by Moscow, which guarantees timely debt repayment to Russia.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Maduro shuffles military high command, but General Padrino Lopez remains defense minister

  

  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has shuffled his military high command but Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, a general, kept his post.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Trade development agreement between Venezuela and Turkey becomes effective August 21

  

  A new trade deal between Turkey and Venezuela, officially titled “Trade Development Agreement,” will enter into force on August 21, the Turkish T24 news website said on Saturday.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Venezuelan gold: High Court rules UK “unequivocally recognizes” Guaidó as president of the country

  

  The British High Court ruled on Thursday that the UK government “unequivocally recognized” Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as president of the country.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 10:36 UTC

  Venezuela expels EU ambassador after the block imposes sanctions on eleven Maduro regime officials

  

  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Monday gave the head of the European Union mission in Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, 72 hours to leave the country after the bloc announced sanctions against 11 Venezuelan officials.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 11:55 UTC

  Mexico freezes bank accounts of companies blacklisted by US for evading sanctions against Venezuela

  

  The Mexican government’s financial crime department has frozen the bank accounts of companies and people blacklisted by the United States under accusations of having evaded the sanction regime imposed on Venezuela, its chief said on Friday.

• Saturday, June 20th 2020 - 10:10 UTC

  US blacklists Mexican companies involved in failed oil-for-food contract with Venezuela's Maduro

  

  The United States blacklisted Mexican company Libre Abordo and a related firm, accusing them of helping Caracas evade US sanctions in the first formal action taken by the US Treasury Department against Mexican companies involved in trading Venezuelan oil.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 05:24 UTC

  Maduro restricts the return of Venezuelan migrants and considers them a threat

  

  The Nicolás Maduro regime blames Venezuelan migrants for the increase in the spread of the coronavirus in Venezuela while hundreds of these emigrants, pushed by their limited survival options, remain stranded in makeshift camps in different cities of Colombia waiting to be able to cross into their country.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 05:26 UTC

  Uruguayan Chancellor avoid describing Venezuela as a dictatorship and clashes with the President Lacalle Pou's policy

  

  A few months ago, Foreign Minister Ernesto Talvi, at his rallies as a candidate for the presidency of Uruguay, did not hesitate to describe the Venezuelan government as a dictatorship. However, in an interview this Saturday he affirmed that he “won't say in this role” that the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a dictatorship.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  EU ratifies that Juan Guaidó is the legitimate congressional president in Venezuela

  

  Venezuelan Supreme Court decision to ratify an ally of President Nicolas Maduro as president of the National Assembly is illegitimate, the European Union said on Thursday, warning of a deepening crisis in the South American nation.