Venezuela

Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 21:26 UTC
ICC Chief Prosecutor addresses Venezuela's human rights crisis

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Monday demanded that Venezuelan authorities release all adolescents and other political prisoners held after protests erupted following the controversial July 28 elections where President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner despite failing to produce any documentation attesting thereto while the opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) published the minutes of 83% of the voting stations proving that their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had triumphed.
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Thursday, November 28th 2024 - 21:47 UTC
Argentine Embassy in Caracas with no electricity and water

Venezuelan Police kept harassing the building of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas now guarded by Brazil since the diplomatic breakup. President Nicolás Maduro's regime targets six aides of opposition leader María Corina Machado who sought asylum there but were never granted safe passage to the airport after Buenos Aires agreed to welcome them. The premises have been without electricity for the past five days and with no water supply for two, the refugees said on social media.
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Thursday, November 28th 2024 - 10:46 UTC
Orsi's inauguration: Inviting Maduro “will be seen when the time comes”

Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi did not rule out inviting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over to his inauguration during his first press conference after winning the runoff against Álvaro Delgado of the ruling Multicolor coalition. However, the former Mayor (Governor) of Canelones admitted some “diplomatic difficulties” with Caracas that he hoped to work out. In any case, he insisted that “relations are between States and not between presidents.” At any rate, the issue “will be seen when the time comes,” he added.
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Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 10:02 UTC
Maduro says terrorist plan orchestrated by Machado foiled

Venezuelan President Maduro said Monday during his broadcast show “Con Maduro +” that terrorist plans orchestrated by far-right groups against his country had been foiled. He insisted opposition leader María Corina Machado was behind these plots from Colombia with rogue elements linked to former presidents Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque and that also the mafia leader in the Venezuelan State of Zulia José Enrique Rincón was involved.
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Monday, November 25th 2024 - 10:24 UTC
Venezuelan regime keeps targeting Argentine Embassy in Caracas

Argentine authorities denounced during the weekend that the diplomatic mission in Caracas -now under Brazil's protection following the diplomatic breakup between the governments of Nicolás Maduro and Javier Miei- has been placed under siege, targetting the six aides of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado who sought asylum there earlier this year.
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Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:37 UTC
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado under criminal investigation

Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office Friday launched a probe into disenfranchised opposition leader María Corina Machado's support to a bill passed by the US House of Representatives contrary to the South American country's interests, it was announced in Caracas. In a statement, the initiative in Washington was described as a legal absurdity sponsoring criminal acts against the Venezuelan people by enlarging “the catalog of illegal sanctions.” The measure also seeks to stain the name of our Liberator Simón Bolívar and violate Venezuela's Constitution as well as its laws and sovereignty.
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.
Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:30 UTC
Venezuelan ambassador returns to Brasilia

Venezuela's Ambassador to Brazil Manuel Vadell returned to Brasilia on Thursday after two weeks in Caracas for consultations, thus ending the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The diplomat announced this move through a video published on social networks. He had been summoned to Venezuela on Oct. 30, after Nicolás Maduro's regime said that statements by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Foreign Affairs Advisor Celso Amorim were “interfering and rude.”
Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 10:06 UTC
Brazil: FM heralds softer approach to Venezuelan crisis

Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira insisted Wednesday that it was time to appease the diplomatic differences with Venezuela and not “repeat the mistakes we made with Guaidó's self-proclamation.” He was referring to the arguably illegal appointment of then-Congressman as interim head of state between Jan. 23 2019 and Jan. 25 2023 after not recognizing the elections' outcome. In the end, President Nicolás Maduro was never removed from the Miraflores Palace and Guaidó's legitimacy eventually faded away, with only some countries recognizing him.
Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
Lula says Maduro not Brazil's problem

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview with RedeTV that Nicolás Maduro was “Venezuela's problem,” not his country's. “It seems to me that it was a wise reflection by Lula,” Maduro replied after recent incidents between the two Latin American nations resulting in Caracas being excluded from the BRICS associate membership granted to Bolivia and Cuba, among others.