Tag: Vladimir Padrino Lopez

• Thursday, November 12th 2015 - 07:29 UTC

  Nephews of Venezuela's First Lady face US drug trafficing charges

  

  Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady have been arrested in Haiti and taken to the US to face drug trafficking charges, US media reports say. Franqui Francisco Flores-de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo-Flores are accused of conspiring to smuggle 800kg of cocaine into the United States.

• Friday, September 25th 2015 - 07:09 UTC

  Guyana believes Venezuela's military display is a 'show of force', but in case send forcers to the border

  

  The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) says it’s ready to defend the country against any act of aggression at the country’s border with neighbour Venezuela. The declaration was made by the GDF’s Chief-of-Staff Brigadier Mark Phillips, as Minister of State Joseph Harmon also assured that President David Granger was “on top of the situation”, which he described as 'a show of force' and 'not a threat of force'.

• Thursday, September 24th 2015 - 08:11 UTC

  Venezuela admits military 'deployment exercise' along the border with Guyana

  

  Venezuela says the deployment of its troops near the border it shares with Guyana, which triggered serious concern in Georgetown, is “an operational deployment exercise”. This follows on months of diplomatic aggression and threats by the regime of Nicolas Maduro claiming two thirds of Guyana's territory.