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Montevideo, April 26th 2025 - 17:13 UTC

Tag: Nicolas Maduro

  • Monday, February 25th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

    What are the next steps for Guaidó after the failed humanitarian operation?

    Guaido arrived to Bogotá and was received with honors as head of State on Sunday.

    “I will return by the airport,” responded the leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly and proclaimed the president in charge, Juan Guaidó, during a press conference in the border city of Cúcuta, Colombia. And is that after the end of the failed humanitarian operation that failed to internalize the oil country tons of food and medicine, many wonders how Guaidó will concretely return to Venezuela.

  • Monday, February 25th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

    Venezuela soldiers who defected to Colombia fear for their families

    More than 100 soldiers are said to have defected, most during deadly clashes over aid deliveries on Saturday. (Rafael Hernández)

    Venezuelan soldiers who defected into Colombia on Saturday say they fear for the safety of their families under President Nicolás Maduro's government. Speaking exclusively to the BBC's Orla Guerin, one defector aged 23 says he is worried forces loyal to the president may “lash out against my family”.

  • Sunday, February 24th 2019 - 17:46 UTC

    Humanitarian aid to Venezuela clash: first round for Maduro, but defeat to the world's eyes

    At least four people died in clashes between civilians and troops and armed groups, “colectivos” loyal to Mr Maduro, including a 14-year-old boy. (AFP)

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called on other nations to consider “all measures” to oust President Nicolas Maduro. International pressure is building on Mr Maduro after opposition-led efforts to bring aid into Venezuela descended into deadly violence on Saturday.

  • Saturday, February 23rd 2019 - 19:31 UTC

    Maduro announces “total rupture” of relations between Venezuela and Colombia

    ”My patience is exhausted, I cannot continue to endure (...) that the territory of Colombia is being lent for an aggression against Venezuela,” Maduro announced at an official ceremony

    In the midst of a tense day in which there have been clashes between volunteers and Venezuelan military officials on the borders of the country, President Nicolás Maduro, considered a usurper by the parliament of his country, announced the “total” cessation of diplomatic relations with Colombia.

  • Saturday, February 23rd 2019 - 11:00 UTC

    Venezuela: What will happen today?

    At least 600,000 people are expected to be guided by Guaidó and other legislators who will make the trip to the Colombian-Venezuelan border to try to pass the aid

    Venezuela will live a historic day this Saturday, February 23: thousands of people will gather at the borders of the country for a massive mobilization that expects to receive tons of humanitarian aid.

  • Saturday, February 23rd 2019 - 10:55 UTC

    Guaido appeared at the “Venezuela Aid Live” in Colombia along with Duque, Piñera and Abdo

    Guaidó wants the tons of humanitarian aid sent by the United States, which are currently in Colombian territory, to enter Venezuela on Saturday

    The president of the National Assembly (AN) and recognized Venezuela’s interim president for half a hundred countries, Juan Guaidó, arrived this Friday by surprise to the Colombian city of Cúcuta, where the concert “Venezuela Aid Live” was held, organized by the British billionaire Richard Branson. Guaidó said that he crossed the border to the Colombian side thanks to the support of the Armed Forces of his country despite the prohibition to leave the country that the administration of Nicolás Maduro imposed on him.

  • Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 10:56 UTC

    Who is Padrino López, Maduro’s strong man

    They must “pass over corpses” to impose “a puppet government,” the Chavista general responded to President Trump and “his threat.”

    After the strong support of the armed forces to the president, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted the figure of Vladimir Padrino López, the Defense Minister of that country, who responded to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, after his remarks on Monday about the danger that ran the military that was next to the Venezuelan leader.

  • Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:48 UTC

    Maduro closes the border with Brazil; Guaidó leads caravan to Colombian border

    Interim president Juan Guaido left the capital Caracas for the Colombian border in a convoy of several vehicles for the 900-kilometre trip

    President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of Venezuela's border with Brazil on Thursday in an increasingly fraught power struggle. Guaido set out in a convoy of vehicles to personally pick up US aid being stockpiled on the other side of the Colombian border, defying Maduro's military to stop him.

  • Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 09:09 UTC

    Maduro's regime closes air and sea traffic from Caribbean islands to block humanitarian aid

    The move came ahead of a Saturday deadline by the opposition for Maduro to end a blockade and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid

    Venezuela’s government said on Wednesday that it was closing its border to air and sea traffic from three Caribbean islands in an effort to block aid shipments to the country organized by the Venezuelan opposition.

  • Wednesday, February 20th 2019 - 16:15 UTC

    Maduro challenges Guaido to call elections

    Elections in Venezuela are organized by the National Electoral Council, where four out of the five rectors are manifestly militants of the ruling party and their terms are expired.

    The head of Venezuela's ruling regime, Nicolás Maduro, asked the head of the National Assembly (AN), Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president of the same nation by some 50 countries, to call presidential elections on Tuesday. Maduro's challenge is given because he believes he would defeat him and this would put an end to the dispute over the executive power that has marked an institutional crisis unprecedented in the Caribbean country.