Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Friday, March 29th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Guaidó barred from holding office for 15 years, says Comptroller from Maduro's regime

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó will be barred from holding further public office for 15 years, the maximum allowed by law, the state financial controller has announced. Comptroller Elvis Amoroso said Mr Guaidó's personal financial statements contained inconsistencies.

• Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Trump calls on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela; Guaido's wife meets Trump and Pence at White House

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that “all options” were open to make that happen. The arrival of two Russian air force planes outside Caracas on Saturday believed to be carrying nearly 100 Russian special forces and cyber-security personnel has escalated the political crisis in Venezuela.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Another blackout in Venezuela: government blames “attack” on the power system

  

  
Venezuela blamed an “attack” on its electric system for a blackout on Monday, the second to hit the OPEC nation this month, that shuttered businesses, plunged the main airport into darkness and left commuters stranded in the capital. Power went out in much of Caracas and nearly a dozen states in the early afternoon, stirring memories of a week-long outage earlier in the month that was the most severe in the country's history.

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Russian military planes in Venezuela's main airport reportedly with troops and equipment

  

  Two Russian military planes landed in Venezuela's main airport on Saturday, reportedly carrying dozens of troops and large amounts of equipment. The planes were sent to “fulfill technical military contracts”, Russia's Sputnik news agency reported.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  IADB annual meeting cancelled after China refused to allow a Venezuelan opposition representative attend

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank on Friday called off next week’s meeting of its 48 member countries in China after Beijing refused to allow a representative of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to attend.

• Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  US threatens to pull out of IADB meeting in China if Guaidó's representative is not allowed to attend

  

  The United States on Thursday threatened to pull out of the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in China next week if Beijing refuses to allow a representative of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to attend.

• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Citigroup plans to sell US$ 1.6bn of Venezuelan gold held on collateral

  

  Citigroup Inc plans to sell several tons of gold placed as collateral by Venezuela’s central bank on a US$ 1.6 billion loan after the deadline for repurchasing them expired this month, sources said Reuters, a setback for President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to hold onto the country’s fast-shrinking reserves.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 20:59 UTC

  Venezuelan gold crisis: US imposes sanctions on state mining company

  

  United States Treasury Department announced new sanctions on Venezuelan state-run ferrous metals mining Company, Minerven, and its President, Adrián Antonio Perdomo on Tuesday for promoting “illicit” gold operations that have continued to prop up the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 05:52 UTC

  Guaidó's representatives move into Venezuela offices in Washington and New York

  

  Representatives of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido have taken control of three of the country's diplomatic properties in the United States, Guaido's US envoy said on Monday, as the opposition presses its bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Maduro requested the resignation of his cabinet to make a “restructuring”

  

  On Sunday, the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, asked his executive cabinet to make his charges available to carry out a “restructuring”. This was confirmed by the vice president of the oil country, Delcy Rodríguez through her Twitter account, where she noted that “the President has requested the entire Executive Cabinet to put their charges to order for the purposes of a thorough restructuring of the methods and Bolivarian government operation to shield the Homeland from any threat!”