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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 05:00 UTC

Venezuela

  • Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 07:18 UTC

    Fears mount over Leopoldo López

    Lilian Tintori holds candlelight vigil outside the prison building where her husband is under arrest.

    The imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader was last seen on Friday. Wife holds candlelight vigil as Maduro fails to produce proof of life.Lilian Tintori, wife of imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and their followers held a candlelight vigil outside the Ramo Verde jail Wednesday night as the government of Nicol疽 Maduro failed to produce a much demanded proof of life before the 8pm deadline.

  • Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 11:39 UTC

    Maduro avoids impeachment, begins dialogue but must change

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro must change to avoid impeachment

    Opposition leaders agree to halt impeachment procudres against the Venezuelan President, but demanded that all politicial prisoners be released and elections are held rather soon.Venezuela's opposition-led Parliament, postponed on Tuesday the beginning of impeachment procedures against President Nicolas Maduro in view of a nascent dialogue with the Government, National Assembly Speaker Henry Ramos Allup announced.

  • Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 02:29 UTC

    Maduro and opposition leaders meet under the mediation of Vatican envoys

    Maduro met in Caracas with five opposition leaders, including Democratic Unity coalition secretary-general Jesus Torrealba and opposition governor Henri Falcon.

    For the first time in at least two years, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his political team have met with several opposition leaders in attempt to defuse the country’s political crisis. The opposition’s main demand is to revive a suspended a recall referendum that could lead to the ouster of President Maduro. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in recent days to support to recall effort.

  • Monday, October 24th 2016 - 10:50 UTC

    Venezuela opposition claims Maduro has committed a coup d'état and calls for active defense of the constitution

    In an emergency opposition lawmakers called on Venezuelans to “actively defend” the constitution claiming Maduro's has broken constitutional order

    Venezuela's opposition-majority legislature declared on Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro's government had committed a coup d'etat by blocking a referendum on removing him from power, vowing mass protests and international pressure.

  • Saturday, October 22nd 2016 - 09:20 UTC

    Diphtheria outbreak in Venezuela; CIA “germ warfare” claims the Chavista government

    Diosdado Cabello, a prominent Chavista, said Venezuela is the target of a “germ warfare orchestrated by the CIA labs.”

    Diphtheria, an extremely contagious disease that has been mostly eradicated worldwide through vaccination, has reappeared in Venezuela and so far has killed four children with another twenty cases reported in just one month. The reappearance of diphtheria, a disease not seen in Venezuela in more than 20 years, is yet the worst symptom of the country's collapsed health system.

  • Tuesday, October 11th 2016 - 04:11 UTC

    Hugo Chavez Peace Prize awarded to Vladimir Putin by Maduro

    “I've decided to create the Hugo Chavez prize for peace and sovereignty,” Maduro said during a broadcast to unveil a statue of Chavez designed by a Russian artist.

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday announced the creation of peace prize in honor of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, and said he was awarding it to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The announcement comes on the same day that the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize to Juan Manuel Santos, president of neighboring Colombia, for his role in negotiating a peace agreement with Marxist FARC rebels.

  • Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 11:55 UTC

    Macri and Temer reaffirm commitment to strengthen Mercosur

    The pair held an official meeting in Buenos Aires and later at a press conference remarked their two countries' stances vis-a-vis the present and future of Mercosur

    Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his Brazilian counterpart, Michel Temer, agreed on Monday on the need to strengthen Mercosur and to make its rules more “flexible” to ”give a certain autonomy to the (member) states in their international relations.”

  • Thursday, September 15th 2016 - 10:40 UTC

    Uruguay admits “consensus support” to remove Venezuela from Mercosur rotating chair

    “If Uruguay had opposed the declaration, Mercosur would have been in full paralysis” argued Cancela regarding the Mercosur consensus statement

    Uruguay's deputy foreign minister Jose Luis Cancela said that if Uruguay had not complied with the other Mercosur three founding members' joint declaration ignoring Venezuela's presidency and demanding it complies with the group's legislation and treaties, “Mercosur would have been launched into a period of full paralysis”.

  • Wednesday, September 14th 2016 - 08:28 UTC

    Venezuela could lose Mercosur membership if it does not comply with the block's rules

    Venezuela is expected to must approve an estimated 300 rules and regulations, and incorporate some thirty international treaties by next December

    Mercosur full members are working on a resolution calling on Venezuela to comply with all rules, regulations and international treaties of the block, which should be incorporated by next December, and if not the country could lose its membership, according to Uruguayan foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa.

  • Friday, September 2nd 2016 - 15:01 UTC

    Brazil reacts to Maduro's statements and calls its ambassador in Caracas

    Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Venezuela's attitude “is conspicuously against the principles and objectives of the Latin American integration.”

    The impeachment process that led to the removal of Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday, August 31, increased the gap among the continent's governments. While the U.S. said that the definite ousting of the now-former president of Brazil followed constitutional proceedings, the so-called Bolivarian governments – Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia – reacted by calling their ambassadors back.