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Montevideo, September 16th 2024 - 18:51 UTC

Tag: Venezuelan elections 2024

  • Tuesday, September 10th 2024 - 09:19 UTC

    Maduro now salutes González Urrutia in exile

    Maduro has shifted from calling González Urrutia a “murderer” to wishing him “all the best in his new life”

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said in his weekly TV show Monday that he now respects former presidential candidate and retired diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, who sought asylum in Spain after insisting he had won the July 28 elections, for which an arrest warrant had been issued against him.

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  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 08:12 UTC

    Chavista groups withdraw from Argentine Embassy adjacencies

    Brazil remains for now guarding Argentina's Embassy in Caracas

    Venezuelan pro-government militias were reported to have stopped stalking the premises of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas after former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia arrived in Spain as an asylum seeker.

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  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 22:06 UTC

    Venezuelan gov't offered Sandinista fighters in case of civil war

    Lula's “was not a very clean government,” Ortega claimed. “I could say a dozen more things,” he went on.

    Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega offered his Venezuelan colleague Nicolás Maduro the help of his “Sandinista fighters” in case of civil war in the South American country, where the opposition insists on not admitting the National Electoral Council's (CNE) announcement that the incumbent had been reelected on July 28.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 15:39 UTC

    HRW against repeating Venezuelan elections

    Goebertus also urged these three “governments to insist on independent verification of the results”

    The governments of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia were sent letters by Human Rights Watch (HRW) pointing out that repeating the elections In Venezuela would serve no purpose. The New York-headquartered non-governmental organization known for advocating in favor of political prisoners and other victims of injustice added that the proposal put forward by these three Latin American countries would be a “mockery,” while granting President Nicolás Maduro's regime an amnesty “would violate international law and affect the rights of victims of atrocities.”

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

    OAS rejects court ruling saying Maduro was reelected in Venezuela

    It was also unthinkable to expect the Venezuelan CNE to hold free, fair, and transparent elections, the OAS noted

    The Organization of American States (OAS) General Secretariat Friday issued a statement rejecting Thursday's ruling by Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) whereby the incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of the July 28 polls and would therefore rule the South American country between 2025 and 2031.

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 08:50 UTC

    Eleven countries in the Americas not to honor Caracas' TSJ ruling

    In a separate declaration, Patel said that a ruling “by the Maduro-controlled Supreme Court of Justice has no credibility”

    Eleven countries in the Americas issued a statement Friday saying they would not be recognizing Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ruling declaring Nicolás Maduro the winner of the July 28 elections without producing any of the voting minutes to back up such a claim.

  • Thursday, August 22nd 2024 - 20:56 UTC

    Venezuela's TSJ rules that Maduro won the July 28 elections

    “We can conclude that the bulletins issued by the CNE are supported by the tally sheets issued by each of the voting machines,” Caryslia Rodríguez stressed

    The Electoral Chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ruled Thursday that incumbent President Nicolás Maduro won the July 28 polls and therefore has been reelected for the 2025-2031 term, Chief Justice Caryslia Rodríguez announced.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 22:08 UTC

    Borrell insists Maduro needs to produce the minutes

    In these circumstances, Maduro's alleged victory “cannot be accepted,” Borrell explained

    The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell highlighted Monday that Venezuela was up for some “serious crisis” should Caracas continue not to produce the minutes of the July 28 polls which the National Electoral Council (CNE) said favored incumbent President Nicolás Maduro Moros.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 22:03 UTC

    OAS recalls Mexico City and Barbados deals regarding Venezuelan crisis

    The OAS urged the CNE in Caracas to “expeditiously publish the presidential election records”

    The Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council passed a resolution Friday urging Venezuelan authorities, political forces, and citizenry to abide by the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Mexico City on August 13, 2021, as well as the Partial Agreement on the Promotion of Political Rights and Electoral Guarantees for All signed in Barbados on October 17, 2023, and therefore “abstain from any conduct that might jeopardize the peaceful settlement of this crisis, fully respecting the sovereign will of the electorate of Venezuela.”

  • Thursday, August 15th 2024 - 20:56 UTC

    AMLO not endorsing Lula's new elections plan

    The only thing we ask is that everything is resolved in a peaceful manner, AMLO said

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday that he did not share his Brazilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's idea that Venezuela should hold fresh elections to get out of the current crisis.

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