Tag: Yván Gil

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:19 UTC

  Venezuela downplays EU's adding it to list of high-risk countries

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil rejected his country's inclusion by the European Union (EU) in a list of “high-risk” nations, calling it a “ridiculous” attempt by a “decrepit European elite.”

• Saturday, May 17th 2025 - 09:46 UTC

  Caracas says Cuyuní River clashes were a “false flag” operation by Guyana

  

  Following Georgetown's complaints, Caracas' Bolivarian regime said Friday that the Guyana Defense Force's (GDF) alleged attacks along the Cuyuní River were a “false flag operation” designed to portray themselves as the victim and create artificial tensions.

• Monday, January 27th 2025 - 21:42 UTC

  Investigation launched into attack against Venezuela's Embassy in La Paz

  

  Bolivian Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa said her country's government had launched an investigation into the attack against Venezuela's Embassy in La Paz. “From the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia we strongly repudiate these vandalism acts that violate the rights and immunities of Venezuelan diplomats,” she stressed in a statement published on social media.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 21:08 UTC

  The Netherlands, France, and Italy ordered to limit diplomatic missions in Caracas to three staffers

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Ministry Tuesday instructed The Netherlands, France, and Italy to cut down their diplomatic missions in Caracas to three members each following what the Bolivarian regime described as “meddling in internal affairs.”

• Monday, January 6th 2025 - 22:00 UTC

  Paraguay recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as President-elect and breaks diplomatic ties with Caracas

  

  The Paraguayan Government of President Santiago Peña Monday announced it was recognizing Edmundo González Urrutia of the opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) as the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections in Venezuela, which prompted a diplomatic breakup with Nicolás Maduro's regime.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 10:20 UTC

  Venezuelan FM speaks the worst about his Argentine colleague

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil told his Argentine colleague Gerardo Werthein on social media he had “no morals to talk about Venezuela” and insisted that the latter's true legacy lay “in the fortunes amassed in the shadow of any opportunist government and under the complicity of the darkest dictatorship that devastated Argentina.” Gil also insisted that Buenos Aires' “terrorist plans” had ”failed categorically, just as any attempt to impose their hypocrisy and arrogance on us will fail.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 18:52 UTC

  Blinken recognizes González Urrutia as Venezuelan President-elect

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country was recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela despite announcements -albeit with little credibility- by authorities in Caracas that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed. González Urrutia, who ran on behalf of the Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) given María Corina Machado's disenfranchisement, sought asylum in September in Spain after the Chavista regime issued an arrest warrant against him.

• Monday, September 30th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

  Brazilian FM asks Venezuelan colleague to let refugees go to Argentina

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira asked his Venezuelan counterpart Yván Gil for a safe-conduct for the six opposition leaders staying at the premises of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas but has been left up to Itamaraty after the expulsion of Buenos Aires' mission.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 22:02 UTC

  US seizes aircraft belonging to Maduro's fleet

  

  Venezuela's Chavista Government Tuesday argued that the seizing in the Dominican Republic by US authorities of an aircraft occasionally used by President Nicolás Maduro constituted a “criminal” act of “piracy.”

• Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:47 UTC

  Foreign Ministers of Iran and Venezuela ratify partnership

  

  The Foreign Ministers of Venezuela, Yván Gil, and Iran, Abbas Araghchi, held a telephone conversation during which their countries' willingness to expand bilateral cooperation.