Tag: Venezuela

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 13:16 UTC

  Maduro wants Guaidó jailed for a photo with two members of a Colombian drug group

  

  Venezuela's state prosecutor's office said on Friday it would open an investigation into Juan Guaido after the interior minister presented photos on state television showing the opposition leader in the company of two suspected members of a Colombian drug-trafficking group.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 10:42 UTC

  Venezuela “ready” to defend itself, says foreign minister after meeting with US rights chief Bachelet

  

  Venezuela is “ready” to defend itself, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Friday, after Washington invoked a regional defense pact that might justify such a move.“We are ready to protect ourselves, we are ready to react,” Arreaza told a news conference after meeting in Geneva with UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 12:40 UTC

  Maduro will not attend UN General Assembly but will deliver 12m signatures denouncing US sanctions

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will not travel to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly later this month, but that two of his envoys would attend to denounce U.S. sanctions on the OPEC nation.

• Thursday, September 12th 2019 - 22:37 UTC

  US unearths cold war inter-American defense treaty to warn Venezuela's military and political threats

  

  The government of Venezuela has denounced the US invocation of a Cold War-era mutual defense treaty on behalf of the opposition in Caracas, a move which clears the way for military intervention in the Latin American country.

• Thursday, September 12th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  OAS Permanent Council condemns ”lifting of the parliamentary immunity” of Venezuelan Deputies

  

  The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) condemned on Wednesday ”the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of deputies José Guerra, Tomás Guanipa, Juan Pablo García and Rafael Guzmán, ordered on August 12, 2019, which constitutes a clear attack on the only legitimate and democratically elected body in Venezuela and another challenge to the rule of law.”

• Thursday, September 12th 2019 - 07:47 UTC

  'Bolton, a disaster and “out of line” in dealing with North Korea and Venezuela'

  

  President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that John Bolton dismissed a day earlier as a national security adviser, had been a “disaster” on North Korea policy, “out of line” on Venezuela, and did not get along with important administration officials.

• Wednesday, September 11th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Venezuela starts war games along the Colombian border mobilizing 150.000 troops

  

  Venezuela's armed forces chiefs said on Tuesday they had begun mobilizing 150,000 troops for military exercises on the Colombian border amid renewed tensions between Bogota and Caracas.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  EU strengthens trade relations with Cuba to counter a raft of US lawsuits against European firms

  

  EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday reaffirmed the bloc's drive to deepen trade with Cuba and counter a wave of lawsuits against European firms as Washington increases pressure on the communist-run island.

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  OPEC+ wants to further cut output to support oil price, but admits it no longer controls the market

  

  Top oil producers will consider fresh output cuts at a meeting this week, but analysts are doubtful they will succeed in bolstering crude prices dented by the US-China trade war.

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Venezuela land dispute with Guyana on front stage and Guaido accused of high treason

  

  Venezuelan prosecutors said Friday they would charge opposition leader Juan Guaido with “high treason” for planning to renounce the country's claim to a disputed border area controlled by Guyana.