Venezuela

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 11:13 UTC

  Cúcuta, the solution to many Venezuelans

  

  When it comes to getting medical treatments, temporary work, migration for a short time, buying food or making more money, Cúcuta has been the better option, if not the perfect one, it is the most practical, for many Venezuelans.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 10:13 UTC

  Brazil has no plans to name new ambassador in Caracas

  

  The Brazilian foreign ministry has no plans to send a new ambassador to Venezuela, after Ruy Pereira was declared “persona non grata” by the government of Nicolás Maduro. With the ousting of ambassador Ruy Pereira the embassy will be the responsibility of the highest ranking diplomatic in Caracas, who is the business attaché. He is the second most senior and who has spent more time in Venezuela behind the ambassador.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 07:22 UTC

  Canada insists in criticizing the Maduro regime despite diplomats expulsion incident

  

  Canada has announced it is expelling Venezuela's ambassador to Ottawa, Wilmer Barrientos Fernández, and its charge d'affaires, Ángel Herrera. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said the move was in retaliation for the expulsion of its most senior diplomat from Caracas over the weekend.

• Sunday, December 24th 2017 - 11:42 UTC

  Venezuela expels Brazilian and Canadian top diplomats

  

  Officials in Venezuela took the first step on Saturday toward expelling top diplomats from Brazil and Canada who have been accused of meddling in the country’s politics. National constituent assembly president Delcy Rodriguez declared both Brazil’s ambassador and Canada’s charge d’affaires as persona non grata, a move which does away with their diplomatic credentials.

• Sunday, December 24th 2017 - 09:39 UTC

  Venezuela: some political prisoners in freedom

  

  The National Constituent Assembly (ANC in Spanish) recommended to the Public Prosecutor and the Judicial Branch to release more than 80 political prisoners. At the moment, 13 of them have been released with precautionary measures.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 12:01 UTC

  Venezuelan minister praises China and lashes out at the US, in Beijing

  

  Venezuela’s foreign minister blamed the United States for his country’s spiraling debt crisis, saying Washington’s “permanent attack” had left the economy crippled. Jorge Arreaza lashed out at Donald Trump, US and European sanctions, and American interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs at the Venezuelan embassy in Beijing during a three-day official visit.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 10:14 UTC

  Venezuela's economy contracted a massive 16.5% in 2016, admits government

  

  Venezuela's economy shrank a massive 16.5% in 2016, according to an official government filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The oil-rich but impoverished country attributed the collapse to a contraction of 9.9% in the oil sector and 16.1% in the non-oil economy.

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 23:09 UTC

  Venezuela's shortage of cash means big business for some

  

  In view of the hyperinflation in their country, Venezuelans have developed “creative” forms of business.

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 11:02 UTC

  Macri sends message to the Venezuelan people and demands respect for human rights

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri in Brasilia expressed full solidarity with the Venezuelan people, called for human rights respect and freedom for the political prisoners held by the regime of president Nicolas Maduro.

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 09:17 UTC

  Passports of 130 Venezuelan children deemed void - no Xmas family gathering for them

  

  The Venezuelan government, through the first prosecutor of Vargas state and officers of the Autonomic Service of Identification, Migration and Foreign Affairs prevented the leaving of 130 children for Peru, where they were to meet with their parents last December 15.