Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Wednesday, August 15th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Venezuela arrests two high-ranking military officers in relation to an attack on president Maduro

  

  The investigation into an assassination attempt on Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro using drones has widened to include the arrest of two high-ranking military officers, the nation's top prosecutor said on Tuesday.

• Monday, August 13th 2018 - 18:53 UTC

  Venezuela appealing US$ 1.4bn compensation ruling, threatening Citgo

  

  Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA is appealing a decision allowing Canadian miner Crystallex to take control of shares in U.S. subsidiary PDV Holdings as part of a 10 year dispute over the state takeover of Crystallex assets, a court filing shows.

• Monday, August 6th 2018 - 20:57 UTC

  Venezuelan Prosecutor assures that the perpetrators of the “assassination attempt” against Nicolás Maduro were identified

  

  Last Saturday, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, described as “attempted assassination” the events that interrupted an official ceremony in Caracas in commemoration of the anniversary of the armed forces.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 07:35 UTC

  Santos convinced that Maduro's days in Venezuela are numbered, “in the near future”

  

  Nicolas Maduro's days as president of crisis-ravaged Venezuela are numbered, his outgoing Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos told the French government news agency.“I can see it happening in the near future,” said Santos, pointing to the International Monetary Fund's latest projection that Venezuela's inflation will hit one million percent this year.

• Tuesday, July 31st 2018 - 07:00 UTC

  Venezuela scarce gasoline will be sold only to the politically loyal

  

  Venezuela is taking steps to direct dwindling motor fuel to politically loyal vehicle owners. President Nicolas Maduro ordered a national census on 3-5 August to determine how many vehicle owners possess a homeland identity card, a document created in first quarter 2017 to strengthen the government's social and political surveillance capabilities.

• Saturday, July 14th 2018 - 19:53 UTC

  Corruption unleashed: Venezuelan government denounced for enriching itself with aid funds

  

  According to a financial intelligence panel that met Friday in Cartagena, Colombia; in Venezuela, Maduro's government “uses food and humanitarian aid as a weapon for social control.”

• Friday, July 6th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Trump planned invading Venezuela

  

  Associated Press (AP) revealed that last August, during a meeting in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump asked a question that startled his advisors: given that the situation in Venezuela threatens regional security, why does the United States not invades the South American country?

• Saturday, June 30th 2018 - 14:54 UTC

  Pence urges Latin America to isolate Venezuela which is falling to “dictatorship, deprivation and despair”

  

  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Latin American countries to help isolate crisis-stricken Venezuela, an ideological adversary of Washington that is struggling under a severe and prolonged economic crisis.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Hundreds of arbitrary killings by Venezuela security forces, claims UN

  

  Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN's human rights body says. In the report it cites “shocking”accounts of young men being killed during operations, often in poor districts, over the past three years.

• Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Miami media says US$ 800 million in assets of Diosdado Cabello frozen in the US, but he flatly denies the version

  

  The U.S. government has frozen about US$ 800 million in assets from senior Venezuelan leader Diosdado Cabello Miami journalist Oscar Haza reported Tuesday during his morning radio show on Miami’s Spanish-language Zeta 92.3.