Tag: Venezuela Elections 2018

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Maduro wraps up electoral campaign next to Erdogan and Maradona

  

  Venezuela's diplomatically isolated president got a show of support from his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona on Thursday ahead of a weekend election widely decried as unfair. The United States, the European Union and major Latin American countries have criticized Sunday's vote in which populist President Nicolas Maduro is likely to win re-election to a six-year term.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Kellogg pulls out of Venezuela. Maduro promises to hand control of the factory to workers

  

  The United States based cereal maker Kellogg is pulling out of Venezuela because of the economic deterioration in the country. Workers said they were prevented from entering the plant in the central city of Maracay on Tuesday. The announcement comes ahead of Sunday's presidential elections.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Pence calls on Maduro to suspend sham elections and asks OAS to suspend Venezuela

  

  US Vice President Mike Pence on Monday urged Venezuela to suspend a divisive May 20 election he denounced as a “sham,” as Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Nicolas Maduro's regime. In an address to the Organization of American States, Pence slammed the upcoming presidential vote -- boycotted by the opposition and branded illegitimate by much of the international community.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 18:51 UTC

  Venezuela: close to fraudulent elections

  

  Venezuela's National Assembly, with opposition majority, denounced on Wednesday the “undue” use of electoral material, noting that official papers that belongs to the National Electoral Council (CNE) was found in gambling centers to print bet vouchers and presented its final report about the investigation into the case of the ex-rebel agent, Oscar Pérez.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:35 UTC

  Venezuela postpones presidential election a month; ex Chavista challenges Maduro

  

  Venezuela's national election board announced the vote slated for April 22 had been pushed back to the second half of May, with a final date to be specified later, after a pact between Maduro’s government and some opposition parties.

• Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

  Venezuela Electoral Court admits it's not prepared to organize presidential and legislative on the same date

  

  The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, dismissed the idea of holding legislative elections on the same day as the presidential election scheduled for April 22, as the ruling party has proposed.

• Friday, February 23rd 2018 - 21:36 UTC

  OAS urges Venezuela to reconsider its electoral process

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) was meeting in Washington on Tuesday from 10:00 AM local time on the subject of Venezuela and “the latest events” that have occurred in the Caribbean country. 19 of the 24 members voted in favor of a resolution calling on Venezuela to postpone the elections scheduled for April.

• Friday, February 23rd 2018 - 00:12 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition to Boycott: won't contest on presidential elections

  

  The Venezuelan democratic opposition, represented by the Democratic Unity, announced that it will not be presented to the elections convened by the government of Nicolás Maduro for next April 22 and calls for a national boycott as it is considered a fraudulent process and without guarantees.

• 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.

• 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.