Tag: Venezuelan 2024 elections

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

  Machado announces ecumenic protest for Aug. 17

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.