Tag: Nicolas Maduro

• Wednesday, May 21st 2014 - 07:22 UTC

  Unasur mediators leave Venezuela unable to re-launch peace negotiations

  

  Mediators from Unasur (Union of South American Nations) urged Venezuela's government and opposition back to the negotiating table after failing to revive talks to stem months of protests in the polarized nation.

• Saturday, May 17th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Venezuela's protests should be over by July when the summer holidays, says top security official

  

  Venezuela’s three-month protest movement has dwindled to a hard core of a few hundred violent troublemakers and the unrest should be over by July, when schools and universities break up for the summer holidays, a top security official said.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

  Panama elected-president pledges to normalize relations with Venezuela and Colombia

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Panamanian president-elect Juan Carlos Varela have pledged to waste no time in normalizing relations and re-launching diplomatic, economic and trade ties cut off two months ago, Venezuela's foreign ministry announced. Varela takes office next July first.

• Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:54 UTC

  Pope Francis, Bachelet, Maduro and Mujica, in Time's 100 most influential people

  

  Pope Francis, presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and José Mujica of Uruguay, and Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón are the Latin Americans named by TIME magazine to its list of the “100 most influential people in the world.”

• Saturday, April 26th 2014 - 06:00 UTC

  Malvinas 'sooner than later' will return to Argentina, forecasts Maduro

  

  Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro forecasted that “sooner than later, the Malvinas Islands will return to the hands of the Argentine people” and recalled that during the recent Celac summit in Cuba (Community of Latin-American and Caribbean States) Latin-American was declared “a territory of peace and free of colonialism”.

• Thursday, April 10th 2014 - 06:22 UTC

  Venezuela invites Cardinal Parolin to become “mediator of good will”

  

  The Venezuelan government formally invited today the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to join the exploratory talks with the opposition as “mediator of good will” in order to find a solution to the violent situation in the country.

• Monday, April 7th 2014 - 06:21 UTC

  UN 'deep concern' over violence in Venezuela; supports people's right to protest peacefully

  

  The United Nations office in Venezuela expressed deep concern over the “high human cost” of anti-government protests which have left 39 people dead during two months of unrest. Hundreds more have been detained or injured in clashes with security forces.

• Thursday, April 3rd 2014 - 07:03 UTC

  Maduro takes his case to a New York Times column: “a call for peace”

  

  Venezuela: A Call for Peace - By Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela - The recent protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events.

• Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 08:23 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition lawmaker and supporters cleared from square with tear gas

  

  Venezuelan troops dispersed opposition demonstrators with tear gas on Tuesday and blocked anti-government activist Maria Corina Machado, recently stripped of her seat in the National Assembly, from reaching the legislature.

• Saturday, March 29th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  Venezuela opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez will remain in a military prison

  

  The Caracas Court of Appeals rejected on Friday the defense attorney's plea for the release of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, locked up in a military prison since last Feb. 18, Venezuela's Supreme Court said Friday.