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Montevideo, June 3rd 2025 - 12:33 UTC

Tag: Venezuela

  • Sunday, March 31st 2019 - 17:07 UTC

    Venezuela suffers the fifth mass blackout of the month

    Only 33% of the South American country had electricity service on Sunday morning and 15% was online

    A new massive blackout was recorded this weekend in Venezuela after a nationwide interruption of electricity service this Friday, which was slowly restored in main cities as Caracas. However, a new relapse of the supply occurred on Saturday night, affecting 16 states of the country - more than half.

  • Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

    Red Cross ready to supply humanitarian aid to Venezuela, apparently negotiated with Maduro's regime

    
IFRC “can count on the legal and technical conditions to work in the country, to gain access to humanitarian aid that is so needed,” President Francesco Rocca said

    The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday it was prepared to channel humanitarian aid to Venezuela through an operation that could be similar to one in Syria, potentially helping ease chronic hunger and disease in the South American nation. President Nicolas Maduro in February blocked efforts by political opponents to bring US-backed aid into the country across its borders with neighboring Colombia and Brazil, and has denied the country is suffering a humanitarian crisis.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    Colombia: The humanitarian situation worsened, alerted Red Cross

    The report indicates that Venezuelan migrants, as they pass through Colombia, are exposed to extortion and recruitment by various armed groups

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presented on Thursday the balance of its main humanitarian concerns in Colombia, highlighting a deterioration of security conditions in the most remote areas of the country. The cases of armed conflicts and the violence that has continued to plague Colombia in recent decades, as well as the recent mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants, showed a complex humanitarian context.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

    Guaidó barred from holding office for 15 years, says Comptroller from Maduro's regime

    Guaidó rejected Amoroso's announcement: he is “not auditor general”. “The legitimate congress is the only one with power to designate an auditor general”

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó will be barred from holding further public office for 15 years, the maximum allowed by law, the state financial controller has announced. Comptroller Elvis Amoroso said Mr Guaidó's personal financial statements contained inconsistencies.

  • Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 09:01 UTC

    Venezuela has ceased to supply power to a Brazilian northern state

    Venezuela broke its contract with Eletronorte, energy minister Albuquerque told a Congressional hearing

    Brazil Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said that Venezuela had not complied with its contract to supply the northern state of Roraima with energy since March 7. Roraima is a neighbor of Venezuela and an international bridge has become an escape way for thousands of Venezuelans fleeing from the Nicola Maduro regime and the lack of food and medicines.

  • Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    Guaidó calls on supporters to protest blackouts and prepare for a major Freedom March

    “The time has come to agitate in every state, in every community, to get water back, get electricity back, get gas back,” Mr Guaidó told a rally in Caracas

    Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called on his supporters to take to the streets in protest at nationwide power cuts. He also told followers to prepare for a final push to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro.

  • Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

    OAS approves “Humanitarian Assistance in Venezuela”; Uruguay votes against

    The final tally was 19 countries in favor, 8 abstentions and 5 against, Antigua and Barbuda, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay and Venezuela

    The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved on Wednesday the resolution “Humanitarian Assistance in Venezuela” encouraging member states, permanent observers, and the competent international organizations “to continue providing support and implementing measures to address the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.”

  • Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

    Trump calls on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela; Guaido's wife meets Trump and Pence at White House

    “Russia has to get out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, where he met with Guaido’s wife, Fabiana Rosales

    U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that “all options” were open to make that happen. The arrival of two Russian air force planes outside Caracas on Saturday believed to be carrying nearly 100 Russian special forces and cyber-security personnel has escalated the political crisis in Venezuela.

  • Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 07:01 UTC

    Venezuelan workers sent home and schools closed because of the blackout

    Power had returned to many parts of Caracas by noon on Tuesday, but businesses remained idle and few pedestrians were walking the streets

    Venezuela's government told workers and school children to stay home on Tuesday as the second major blackout this month left the streets of Caracas mostly empty and residents wondering how long power would be out amid a deepening economic crisis.

  • Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

    Another blackout in Venezuela: government blames “attack” on the power system

    Power went out in much of Caracas and nearly a dozen states in the early afternoon, stirring memories of a week-long outage earlier in the month

    
Venezuela blamed an “attack” on its electric system for a blackout on Monday, the second to hit the OPEC nation this month, that shuttered businesses, plunged the main airport into darkness and left commuters stranded in the capital. Power went out in much of Caracas and nearly a dozen states in the early afternoon, stirring memories of a week-long outage earlier in the month that was the most severe in the country's history.