Tag: SEBIN

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 00:50 UTC

  Detention of the Venezuelan Parliament President shows the “rupture” in the Maduro regime

  

  Officials of the Bolivarian Service of National Intelligence (Sebin) retained the deputy Juan Guaidó, President of the National Assembly (AN) and Venezuela’s President-in-charge, when he was going to an open Parliament hall in the north of the country. Minutes later, the parliamentarian was released and attended to the event with a wounded hand and ensuring that the Armed Forces do not want Nicolás Maduro, president considered “de facto” by the Parliament and part of the international community.

• Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 11:06 UTC

  Student leader banished from Venezuela; pressures rise by case Alban

  

  Activist Lorent Gomez Saleh has been freed and secretly transferred by Venezuelan authorities to the international airport of Maiquetía, one hour from Caracas, to be “referred” to Spain.

• Friday, October 12th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  International condemnation of Venezuelan government over suspicious death of elected councilor

  

  Questions and condemnation of Venezuela's leadership poured in this week following the suspicious death of an opposition councilman and activist who authorities say evaded justice by throwing himself from the 10th floor of political police headquarters' building.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2018 - 16:31 UTC

  Venezuelan police radio recording reveals that Oscar Pérez would have surrendered before dying

  

  In audio filtered to Univisión (1), the radio transmission among the Venezuelan police forces that participated on the morning of January 15 in the capture operation against a revolt pilot Óscar Pérez and six of his companions carried out outside of Caracas is revealed. In the revealed material, the commander of the operation, Major of the National Guard Rafael Bastardo confirms his surrender.

• Monday, January 15th 2018 - 21:08 UTC

  Venezuelan rebels killed in operative against Oscar Pérez

  

  An operation started at dawn on Monday in El Junquito, Caracas left 2 police and an undetermined number of dead rebels, the government announced. From his social networks, Oscar Perez, bloody and with detonations in the background, repeatedly reported on video that although he and his team had already surrendered, they did not stop receiving shots, missiles and grenades in the house where they were hiding.

• Sunday, December 24th 2017 - 09:39 UTC

  Venezuela: some political prisoners in freedom

  

  The National Constituent Assembly (ANC in Spanish) recommended to the Public Prosecutor and the Judicial Branch to release more than 80 political prisoners. At the moment, 13 of them have been released with precautionary measures.