Venezuela

• Monday, December 23rd 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  Venezuela steps up Essequibo deployment amid dispute with Guyana

  

  Venezuela's Bolivarian regime has built a bridge reaffirming its sovereignty claims over Guyana Essequiba. The provisional structure will allow the arrival of heavier machinery for the definitive bridge, it was explained. Last Thursday, a fixed bridge over the Cuyuní River on the island of Anacoco was inaugurated as part of the Venezuelan government's efforts to reaffirm its sovereignty over that disputed region. Attending the ceremony were Defense Minister Vladímir Padrino López and Transport Minister Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, among other high-ranking officials and military commanders.

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• Friday, December 20th 2024 - 22:00 UTC

  Venezuela: Asylum seeker leaves diplomatic mission

  

  Venezuelan authorities announced Friday that Fernando Martínez Mottola, one of the six asylum-seekers at what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas now guarded by Brazil following the diplomatic breakup, turned up “voluntarily” Thursday before the Public Prosecutor's Office and testified about “a group of members of the extremist organization Vente Venezuela who are fugitives.”

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• Friday, December 20th 2024 - 10:14 UTC

  Maduro eyes Constitutional reform for Venezuela

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday that he was planning a constitutional reform to further democratize his country in addition to empowering the citizenry and consolidating freedom and national sovereignty. “I have formed a team with great international and national advisors to think together with our people about a great constitutional reform that will further democratize Venezuelan society,” Maduro said.

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• Thursday, December 19th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentina warns against all travel to Venezuela

  

  Following the detention of Border Guard (Gerndarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo in Venezuela on spying charges, the Argentine Government of President Javier Milei issued a travel advisory Tuesday recommending to avoid all travel to that country where “A dictatorship prevails,” according to Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni.

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• Thursday, December 19th 2024 - 10:15 UTC

  Venezuela renames Oil Ministry to include other fuels

  

  The Venezuelan administration of President Nicolás Maduro renamed the Oil Ministry which will be henceforth known as Ministry of Hydrocarbons, Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez announced Wednesday. The measure seeks to boost the sector, she explained on her Telegram account.

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• Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 21:19 UTC

  EU: Venezuelan opposition leaders granted Sakharov Prize

  

  Venezuelan opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado were awarded Tuesday the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament given their “efforts to restore freedom and democracy” in the South American country.

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• Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Caracas confirms arresting Argentine Gendarmería NCO

  

  Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello Monday confirmed that Argentine Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo had been arrested by the Chavista regime because “he came to fulfill a mission.” Cabello added that Gallo's social media activity showed a lifestyle unfitting his salary, which raised doubts about his ultimate intentions.

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• Monday, December 16th 2024 - 21:24 UTC

  Venezuelan gov't releases 179 detainees from July's incidents

  

  Venezuelan authorities announced Monday the release of 179 people who were detained in the riots that ensued the controversial July 28 elections which both President Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia claimed to have won.

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• Monday, December 16th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentine Gendarmería NCO feared to be at El Helicoide prison

  

  Argentine authorities Sunday admitted they feared that Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Agustín Nahuel Gallo might have been transferred to Caracas' infamous El Helicoide prison after being arrested upon entering the country by land for strictly personal reasons.

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• Monday, December 16th 2024 - 06:26 UTC

  UK Statement at UN for Human Rights on Venezuela, “repression must stop”

  

  The Statement for the Intersessional ID with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Venezuela was delivered by the UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Simon Manley.

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