Tag: Venezuela

• Monday, July 8th 2019 - 10:15 UTC

  Power outage hits Venezuela's largest refinery complex

  

  Venezuela's largest refinery complex has been hit by a power outage, at a time of acute fuel shortages in parts of the crisis-torn oil producer, an opposition lawmaker said on Sunday.

• Monday, July 8th 2019 - 10:05 UTC

  Maduro confirms Vladimir Padrino as defense minister

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday announced he will maintain Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino in his post, following months of rumors that top military brass would be replaced after a failed uprising in April.

• Monday, July 8th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  Guaidó announces new round of dialogue with Maduro in Barbados

  

  Venezuela's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido said on Sunday a new dialogue between the opposition and President Nicolas Maduro's government would be held in Barbados. He did not specify a date for resumption of talks at the new venue, in the Caribbean, after earlier discussions stalled in Norway.

• Thursday, July 4th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Peru invites China, Russia, Cuba, Bolivia...to discuss Venezuela's situation

  

  Peru has invited China, Russia, Cuba, Bolivia, Turkey and dozens of other countries to Lima on Aug 6 to discuss the political crisis in Venezuela, Peru's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Oslo talks scuttled: Guaidó insists that there never would be a good moment to negotiate with Maduro

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Tuesday that there would “never” be a good moment to negotiate with President Nicolas Maduro's “dictatorship”, ruling out an expected new round of talks to find an exit from the country's crisis.

• Tuesday, July 2nd 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Maduro says it has arrested two military for the death in custody of a naval officer

  

  Two suspects are to face justice over the death in custody of a navy officer accused of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's attorney general announced on Monday. Tarek William Saab identified the two men as a lieutenant and a sergeant in Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Intelligence.

• Tuesday, July 2nd 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  Venezuela allows the return of expelled German ambassador

  

  The Venezuelan foreign ministry said on Monday it had agreed to the return of the German ambassador whom President Nicolas Maduro's government expelled in March after he had gone to Caracas airport to greet opposition leader Juan Guaido.

• Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  OAS General Assembly after two days of debate remains divided on Venezuela

  

  Members of the Organization of American States (OAS) ended two days of meetings on Friday without a clear plan for increasing pressure on embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, despite a majority vote to recognize a representative from the country's opposition.

• Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  The US Treasury lists the son of Nicolas Maduro in the “corrupt boys club”

  

  The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on the son of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for serving in his father's “illegitimate regime”. The action freezes any assets Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra has in the United States and bars American individuals or institutions from doing business with the 29-year-old.

• Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 05:44 UTC

  Uruguay withdraws from OAS assembly to protest the incorporation of a Guaido representative

  

  Uruguay on Thursday withdrew from the annual meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Assembly being held in Medellin, Colombia, in protest of the presence of what it said was an illegitimate delegation from Venezuela.