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Montevideo, November 3rd 2025 - 11:17 UTC

Tag: Yván Gil

  • Monday, October 27th 2025 - 20:02 UTC

    Venezuela claims to have foiled alleged CIA-backed “false flag” plot from Trinidad and Tobago

    Gil pointed fingers at Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister for allegedly consorting with the CIA

    Venezuela's Bolivarian regime on Monday denounced what it claims is a high-level “false flag” operation orchestrated by the CIA and coordinated from Trinidad and Tobago, designed to create a pretext to launch a military strike against Caracas. Foreign Minister Yván Gil stated that a “criminal cell financed by the CIA” linked to the covert operation was being dismantled within Venezuelan territory.

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  • Monday, October 13th 2025 - 21:09 UTC

    Venezuela shuts down embassy in Oslo just days after Machado's Nobel Prize

    Maduro never admitted the measure was linked to Machado's winning the Nobel Peace Prize

    Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday that the Bolivarian regime was shutting down its embassies in Norway and Australia as part of a diplomatic restructuring program. The Chavista Government denied that the measure was linked to Norway's granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to opposition leader María Corina Machado three days prior.

  • Friday, August 8th 2025 - 21:06 UTC

    US ups reward for narcoterrorist Nicolás Maduro

    Authorities have seized tons of cocaine and hundreds of millions of dollars in assets linked to Maduro, Bondi claimed

    The US government has doubled its reward to US$50 million for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The Trump administration is accusing him of being a “narco-terrorist” and one of the world's largest drug traffickers, claiming he has worked with cartels to smuggle cocaine into the US.

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

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

    “An anachronistic bureaucracy, aged and disconnected from its people, pretends today to tutor Venezuela,” Gil's office said in a statement

    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

    Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil blamed “cheap propaganda designed in the laboratories of the US Southern Command” for the alleged incidents

    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

    Sosa explained that shots had been fired against the diplomatic mission on Sunday

    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

    Gil gave the three European countries 48 hours to comply

    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

    Paraguay gave Venezuela's diplomatic mission 48 hours to leave the country

    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

    Werthein was included as a person of interest in the investigation into Nahuel Gallo's arrest by Caracas on espionage charges

    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

    Blinken is a confessed enemy of Venezuela, the Chavista Foreign Minister Gil said

    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.

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