Venezuela

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 09:01 UTC

  Venezuela invites Russia to join in gold mining

  

  Venezuelan authorities have offered Russian companies to take part in gold exploration and gold mining in the country, according to Russian Ambassador to Venezuela Vladimir Zaemsky.

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 05:27 UTC

  Cuba and Venezuela default on Brazilian development loans

  

  After defaults in Mozambique, Venezuela, and Cuba the Brazilian government froze credit lines for new exports, a measure that will affect mostly small and medium-sized businesses. The Brazilian Treasury Department will spend US$ 6 million to reimburse BNDES (National Bank For Economic and Social Development) for Cuba's default

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 04:58 UTC

  Venezuela calls US “interventionist” for backing Guyana's offshore oil exploration

  

  Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Tuesday described as “interventionist and disrespectful” U.S. comments on a weekend incident in which the country’s navy stopped two ships exploring for oil for Exxon Mobil off Guyana’s coast.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2018 - 06:59 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition opens Human Rights Museum

  

  Venezuelan human rights activists and opposition party Voluntad Popular (VP) Monday opened an exhibition about the country's political prisoners, their alleged tortures and the plights hundreds of victims of the Nicolás Naduri regime have gone through.

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 14:24 UTC

  Venezuelan Navy repels oil exploring ship, triggers international diplomatic conflict with Guyana

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has demanded that Guyana respect its sovereignty after two ships of the transnational company ExxonMobil were repelled Saturday from what the Bolivarian Navy deemed to be their country's waters. But both the governments of the United States and of Guyana claim it was Venezuela who was in breach of international law.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 17:00 UTC

  Colombia expels Venezuelan citizen with a FARC past

  

  Colombian migration authorities Wednesday confirmed Venezuelan national Carlos Manuel Pino García was in custody in Bogotá, to be eventually deported Thursday.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 14:30 UTC

  Macri urges Mercosur to take action against “Venezuelan dictatorship”

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri Tuesday launched an appeal in Montevideo to find solutions to the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and called for the “return of democracy” in that country. He delivered that speech during the Mercosur summit where he is to take up the bloc's rotating presidency from host Tabaré Vázquez.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 13:03 UTC

  Peru receives 395,000 applications from Venezuelan citizens to stay, work and study

  

  Around 395,000 Venezuelans have applied for a Temporary Stay Permit (PTP) in Peru, National Migration Superintendent Roxana del Aguila announced Monday.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

  Creditors demanding payment of US$ 1.5 billion Venezuelan bond in default

  

  A group of creditors has demanded payment on a US$ 1.5 billion Venezuelan bond that is in default, their lawyer said on Monday, kicking off a long-awaited showdown between creditors and the crisis-wracked OPEC nation. President Nicolas Maduro’s government and state-owned companies owe nearly US$ 8 billion in unpaid interest and principal following this year’s default on bonds amid a hyperinflationary collapse of the country’s once-wealthy socialist economy.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Bolsonaro disinvites Venezuelan and Cuban presidents to his swearing in

  

  The Brazilian Foreign Ministry on Monday confirmed that it had called off invitations sent to Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, for the inauguration of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, local media reported.