Tag: Venezuela crisis

• Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 09:28 UTC

  “Lima Group” blasts Maduro's call for elections without an agreement with the opposition

  

  The “Lima Group” of Latin American nations plus Canada on Tuesday criticized the Venezuelan government’s decision to hold a presidential election on April 22 without reaching an agreement with an opposition coalition.

• Monday, February 12th 2018 - 16:01 UTC

  Temer talks of “diplomatic confrontation” with Maduro over exodus of Venezuelans

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer criticized the government of neighboring Venezuela for leading that country into a crisis that is causing an exodus of refugees into northern Brazil. Brasilia has called for democratic reforms by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has consolidated power as his country’s economic crisis deepens with shortages of food and medicine.

• Friday, February 9th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  Colombia and Brazil tighten controls along Venezuelan border: thousands pouring in

  

  Colombia and Brazil tightened border controls with Venezuela on Thursday as both nations grapple with a mounting influx of hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants fleeing a worsening economic crisis In a visit to the border region, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said he would impose stricter migratory controls, suspend new daily entry cards for Venezuelans and deploy 3,000 new security personnel along the frontier, including 2,120 more soldiers.

• Thursday, February 8th 2018 - 11:24 UTC

  Venezuelan presidential elections for April 22

  

  Venezuela's questioned electoral council has set April 22 as the date for a controversial presidential election, which was supposed to occur late 2018. The opposition accuses President Nicolas Maduro of using to plan a second term for himself.

• Thursday, February 8th 2018 - 09:26 UTC

  China confirms support for Venezuela and lashes out at “irresponsible” US

  

  China’s support for Venezuela has benefited ordinary people and been broadly welcomed, the foreign ministry said after the U.S. Treasury accused China of aiding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government with murky oil-for-loan investments.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2018 - 21:55 UTC

  Colombian government refuses to close its border with Venezuela

  

  At least 8,000 Venezuelans cross the border between Colombia and Venezuela daily to the department of Arauca, southeast of Colombia. Although the migratory flow at this point does not compare with the thirty or forty thousand Venezuelans who cross the Simón Bolívar bridge between Santander and Táchira every day, in Arauca the majority of migrants arrive in conditions of extreme vulnerability.

• 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.

• Thursday, February 1st 2018 - 11:05 UTC

  Opposition denies pre-agreement in the dialogue

  

  The pro-government representative in the negotiations in Dominican Republic, Jorge Rodriguez announced that a pre-agreement had been reached and that he was almost certain that on Wednesday the talks would come to fruition. However, the opposition came to deny it.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Unicef and Caritas confirm growing and extended malnutrition in Venezuela

  

  The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said it was seeing clear signs of a growing malnutrition crisis in Venezuela, but it lacked data to give precise information and to tackle the problem effectively.

• Monday, January 29th 2018 - 18:29 UTC

  “Electoral charade”: Maduro clings to power at all costs

  

  On December 20 the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) - formed only by pro-government officials - decreed that political parties that did not participate for the last regional election a few months ago must be revalidated before the National Electoral Council (CNE), a rule that according to the the current constitution should be should be applied when absenting more than 3 times to the suffrages.