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Montevideo, January 30th 2025 - 23:29 UTC

Tag: Venezuelan 2024 elections

  • Saturday, January 11th 2025 - 09:59 UTC

    González Urrutia says he is close to returning to Venezuela

    “And to the military and police forces, I order the cessation of repression,” González Urrutia said as if he had officially assumed the presidency

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, for many the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections even after Nicolás Maduro's inauguration for a new six-year term, said he was “close” to return to the country and called on the Armed Forces to “disregard illegal orders” from the Bolivarian de facto regime.

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 16:50 UTC

    Venezuela: Maduro sworn in for presidential term “of peace”

    “I swear that this new presidential term will be the term of peace,” Maduro stressed

    Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday for the 2025-2031 term after being declared the winner of the controversial July 28, 2024, elections. During a ceremony at the Elliptical Hall of the Federal Legislative Palace, Maduro took his oath upon a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution signed by the late Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:51 UTC

    Machado announces ecumenic protest for Aug. 17

    “The truth is in sight: Edmundo González won. Venezuela won,” Machado insisted on social media

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado announced that on “Saturday, August 17, we will take to the streets of Venezuela and the world” to protest against the alleged fraud committed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) when it announced that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had won the July 28 elections, thus earning the right to remain in office during the 2025-2031 term.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:43 UTC

    Virtual Summit featuring Maduro, Lula, Petro, and AMLO being arranged

    “The purpose is to generate a dialogue that leads to very specific agreements,” Murillo pointed out

    According to Colombia's Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo, a virtual summit bringing together Presidents Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Gustavo Petro (Colombia), and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO - Mexico) has been agreed upon to discuss the crisis triggered by the July 28 elections which both the ruling party and the opposition in Caracas claim to have won.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:20 UTC

    Venezuelan Supreme Court's ruling on elections not open for appeals

    The TSJ's Electoral Chamber ”is the highest judicial instance in electoral matters, Justice Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez explained

    Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) Chief Justice Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez warned that the ruling on the July 28 polls would be definitive and binding. In other words, the decision will be not open to appeals and must be enforced.

  • Wednesday, July 24th 2024 - 20:58 UTC

    Caracas withdraws invitation to Alberto Fernández as electoral observer

    Fernández's words that whoever wins the elections in Venezuela should become the next president were not what Maduro's regime wanted to hear

    Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) announced Wednesday that he would not travel to Venezuela as a foreign observer to the South American country's July 28 elections after the Government of President Nicolás Maduro had second thoughts.