Tag: Yván Gil

• Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:06 UTC

  Venezuela names its envoy to Washington as foreign minister in cabinet reshuffle

  

  Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, has appointed diplomat Félix Plasencia to head a new Ministry of Foreign Relations and Trade, merging the diplomatic and foreign trade portfolios. Plasencia had until now served as Venezuela's chief of mission in the United States, and replaces Yvan Gil, foreign minister since 2023, who moves to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

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

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

  

  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.

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

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

  

  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

  

  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.