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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 08:11 UTC

Venezuela

  • Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 06:03 UTC

    Maduro-Shannon discuss restarting relations; OAS debates implementing Democratic Charter on Venezuela

    US envoy Shannon and Maduro, met after lunch in the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas.

    Veteran U.S. diplomat Tom Shannon spoke for nearly two hours with Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday to re-start relations between the ideologically opposed governments amid a punishing economic crisis in the oil rich country.

  • Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 05:59 UTC

    OAS listens to mediators' appeal for government/opposition dialogue in Venezuela

    Venezuela called an extraordinary OAS session to update the body about dialogue between the government and opposition

    Addressing the OAS Permanent Council, former Spanish president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said that reconciliation is an indispensable and essential challenge to overcome the current confrontation situation in Venezuela, and although it will be a long, difficult process, he recommends dialogue efforts should continue.

  • Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 07:15 UTC

    Kerry announces at OAS assembly high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela

    Kerry said the talks would start immediately in Caracas and be led by Thomas Shannon, a veteran of U.S. diplomacy in the region.

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry announced high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela's populist government on Tuesday, just hours after he backed calls for a referendum that could force President Nicolas Maduro from office. Kerry said the talks would start immediately in Caracas and be led by Thomas Shannon, a veteran of U.S. diplomacy in the region. Attempts last year at dialogue between the ideological foes were stalled by Venezuela's deepening crisis.

  • Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 12:23 UTC

    Maduro appeals to bureaucratic chicaneries to impede the recall referendum

    Maduro's opponents warn Venezuela risks exploding into unrest without a vote on sacking the populist leader, whom they blame for the economic crisis

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's allies asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a bid to call a referendum on sacking him, accusing the opposition of “fraud.” The move casts doubt on the recall vote sought by the opposition, which accuses the high court of pro-Maduro bias and has clashed with it repeatedly since winning control of congress in December.

  • Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 08:40 UTC

    Venezuela opposition leader in Latin American tour in search for support

    Capriles called on UNASUR and MERCOSUR to back his side's constitutional efforts to remove Maduro via a recall referendum.

    One of Venezuelan top opposition leader on Monday launched a tour of Latin American countries to rally support for his side in its bid to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office. Henrique Capriles, a senior figure in the opposition MUD coalition, was in Paraguay, Argentina and planned to move on to Brazil.

  • Monday, June 13th 2016 - 06:17 UTC

    OAS General Assembly: a statement on Falklands/Malvinas can be expected

    The OAS general assembly two/day meeting is taking place in Santo Domingo

    This Monday evening the Organization of American States 46th General Assembly will officially open in Santo Domingo and this year's convening agenda refers to “Institutional Strengthening for Sustainable Development in the Americas”. The two day gathering is also expected to focus on the Venezuela, Haiti and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission situations, and as is the norm, the Falklands-Malvinas issue will be addressed or included in the final declaration.

  • Friday, June 10th 2016 - 09:54 UTC

    Brazil and Paraguay 'deeply' concerned with the economic and human rights condition in Venezuela

    Paraguay's Loizaga held his first round of talks with Serra, after having been received by Brazilian interim president Michel Temer.

    Brazil and Paraguay foreign ministers Jose Serra and Eladio Loizaga expressed “deep concern” with the Venezuela crisis situation, particularly the “economic and human rights continued deterioration”, and reiterated their two countries willingness to cooperate and promote dialogue.

  • Tuesday, June 7th 2016 - 08:11 UTC

    Almagro accuses Macri of reversing campaign promises in the Venezuelan situation

    Almagro implied that Argentine Ambassador to the OAS Juan José Arcuri was stalling a discussion on whether or not to invoke the Charter against Venezuela.

    After directing criticism at Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and urging that Caracas be considered for suspension from the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro has accused Argentine President Mauricio Macri of impeding those efforts and of reversing his campaign promises of taking a hard line against Maduro.

  • Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 08:41 UTC

    Brazil wants Venezuela out of the Mercosur rotating chair

    Maduro's Venezuela is scheduled to take the Mercosur chair at the summit scheduled for the end of the month

    Brazilian government would like to block Venezuela from taking the rotating presidency of Mercosur later this month, a move to further debilitate Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's power, according to Planalto sources close to interim president Michel Temer, who admitted the proposal has yet to be discussed with other members.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 06:06 UTC

    Maduro to Almagro: “stick up the Democratic Charter wherever it fits”

    “Venezuela will be respected and nobody’s going to apply any charter of any kind – or whatever they want to call it – to Venezuela,” Maduro blasted.

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that Organization of American States chief Luis Almagro had called for foreign “intervention” in his country by invoking the body’s Democratic Charter in response to the political crisis in Venezuela.