Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Wednesday, July 19th 2017 - 07:04 UTC

  Trump threatens Venezuela with sanctions: Maduro says he will not be intimidated

  

  In a statement released Monday night, President Trump threatened to impose economic sanctions on Venezuela should the nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, follow through on his pledge to create a “constituent assembly” capable of rewriting Venezuela’s constitution.

• Monday, July 17th 2017 - 09:58 UTC

  Seven million Venezuelans in symbolic referendum vote to cut short Maduro´s mandate

  

  More than seven million Venezuelans participated in an unofficial referendum organized by the opposition Sunday and 98% voted to delegitimize the rule of President Nicolas Maduro, according to academics monitoring the vote.

• Friday, July 14th 2017 - 07:21 UTC

  Venezuelan bishops call for an end to the “inhuman repression” and appeal to the Armed forces

  

  Venezuelan bishops called for an end to the “inhuman repression”, urged the government of Nicolas Maduro to hold elections and to dismantle and censure pro-regime civilian armed groups and also addressed the armed forces recalling they must serve the people, not a regime.

• Saturday, July 8th 2017 - 22:08 UTC

  Leopoldo Lopez released from prison to house arrest

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, whose imprisonment has been a rallying cry for anti-regime demonstrators, has been released to house arrest because of health concerns, the nation's Supreme Court said Saturday morning. Lopez has been detained since early 2014 over accusations of inciting anti-government protests.

• Thursday, July 6th 2017 - 04:53 UTC

  Maduro's goons storm Venezuela National Assembly and beat up lawmakers

  

  About a hundred government supporters stormed into Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly, where they beat up several lawmakers. Witnesses said the confrontation came after an assembly session to mark the country's Independence Day, Wednesday July 5th.

• Tuesday, July 4th 2017 - 02:40 UTC

  MUD to hold plebiscite against Maduro's Constituent Assembly plans

  

  Venezuela's opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) announced Monday it will hold a public consultation regarding Nicolás Maduro's intention to reform the constitution by calling for an election to choose the constituent assembly.

• Saturday, July 1st 2017 - 13:01 UTC

  Venezuelan student organizations say 62 of their members have been arrested so far

  

  The number of students brought into custody by Venezuela's régime during opposition protests in the past three months amounted to 62 by Friday, according to Daniel Ascanio of the Simón Bolívar University students grouping.

• Thursday, June 29th 2017 - 01:41 UTC

  Mystery police helicopter pilot jumps into the limelight in Venezuela... and vanishes

  

  It is still unclear whether Oscar Perez is either a revolutionary officer standing up against Nicolás Maduro's régime or part of a government-sponsored montage as he drops grenades onto the Supreme Court building from his hijacked helicopter and makes video announcements that he and his fellow “nationalist” men will defend their country.

• Wednesday, June 28th 2017 - 01:48 UTC

  Venezuela's Maduro warns of war if 'revolution' toppled

  

  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro warned on Tuesday that he and supporters would take up arms if his socialist government was violently overthrown by opponents who have been on the streets protesting for three months.

• Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 07:00 UTC

  Venezuela: over fifty people killed in fifty days of protests

  

  A young demonstrator has died from a gunshot wound to the chest, raising to over 50 the number of people killed in fifty days of protests targeting Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, officials said Sunday. The president personally denounced a brutal attack on another man he said had been taken for a government supporter during one of several massive demonstrations across the country Saturday demanding early elections.