Venezuela

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 18:23 UTC

  'Storms' and arrests among Venezuelan Armed Forces; more tortures and political prisoners

  

  After the presidential election in Venezuela on May 20, in which President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected, a wave of arrests has been reported among Venezuelan military in several parts of the country. As well as releases and new arrests of civilians and soldiers for political reasons.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Turkey's Erdogan joins the club of Venezuela Maduro's fans

  

  Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has congratulated his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro on winning a new term in office, the Turkish presidency said on Wednesday, after an election widely condemned by the international community.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:19 UTC

  Lima Group does not recognize Maduro's reelection and recalls ambassadors

  

  The fourteen members of the Lima Group will not recognize the re-election of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in a Sunday vote marred by international accusations that it was rigged.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:07 UTC

  Trump increases economic isolation of the Venezuelan regime of Maduro

  

  President Donald Trump on Monday increased pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with an executive order that restricts his regime from selling off public assets and blocks purchases of the country's debt.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  Nicaraguan truce on the cliff after claims police attacked and shot students

  

  Nicaraguans were back on the streets in their thousands on Sunday to protest what they called a government breach of a two-day truce agreed during Church-mediated peace talks. Students at a university in northeastern Managua claim police attacked them during a demonstration outside the campus on Saturday night in which four students were shot and injured.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  Maduro re-elected, but with massive abstention and other candidates call for fresh elections

  

  Venezuela’s populist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship. Victory for the 55-year-old former bus driver, who replaced Hugo Chavez after his death from cancer in 2013, may trigger a new round of western sanctions against the populist government as it grapples with a ruinous economic crisis.

• Sunday, May 20th 2018 - 19:55 UTC

  Venezuelans in Uruguay demonstrated by denouncing “fraudulent” presidential elections

  

  Little by little, around noon on this Sunday, Venezuelans living in Uruguay gathered in front of the Venezuelan embassy in Montevideo to protest against what they consider “unfair and fraudulent” presidential elections. The diplomatic office, where an electoral table was installed where 405 Venezuelans living in Uruguay would be authorized to vote by the electoral register, was fenced with by the police for fear of violent attacks.

• Sunday, May 20th 2018 - 13:15 UTC

  Venezuela: Proselytism, pro-government advantage and hunger on the eve of the presidential election; the crisis gets worse

  

  A few hours before the presidential election of May 20 in Venezuela, which is not recognized by dozens of countries in the region and is classified as “fraud” by the opposition of that country, official statements and messages favorable to the candidate and current president , Nicolás Maduro, have flooded the programs of the open media in Venezuela, according to a report by the Press Institute and Venezuela Society (IPYS).

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 09:38 UTC

  Trump imposes sanctions against the powerful Venezuela clan of Diosdado Cabello

  

  Two days before presidential elections in Venezuela, the Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions against a powerful governing party politician, accusing him of drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering and embezzling government money.

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Maduro wraps up electoral campaign next to Erdogan and Maradona

  

  Venezuela's diplomatically isolated president got a show of support from his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona on Thursday ahead of a weekend election widely decried as unfair. The United States, the European Union and major Latin American countries have criticized Sunday's vote in which populist President Nicolas Maduro is likely to win re-election to a six-year term.