Venezuela

• Wednesday, May 21st 2014 - 07:22 UTC

  Unasur mediators leave Venezuela unable to re-launch peace negotiations

  

  Mediators from Unasur (Union of South American Nations) urged Venezuela's government and opposition back to the negotiating table after failing to revive talks to stem months of protests in the polarized nation.

• Tuesday, May 20th 2014 - 07:31 UTC

  Venezuelan situation impedes Mercosur summit to take place in Caracas, says Almargo

  

  Uruguay Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro said that the political situation in Venezuela makes it quite improbable that the three-times postponed and since delayed Mercosur summit can effectively take place in Caracas sometime in the next two months.

• Saturday, May 17th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Venezuela's protests should be over by July when the summer holidays, says top security official

  

  Venezuela’s three-month protest movement has dwindled to a hard core of a few hundred violent troublemakers and the unrest should be over by July, when schools and universities break up for the summer holidays, a top security official said.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:51 UTC

  Venezuela activists vowed to continue protests despite demolition of camps

  

  Venezuela said it had freed most of the 243 youth activists arrested in raids last week on street camps set up to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government. Although the demolition of four camps in Caracas was hoped would discourage the three-month protest movement, activists vowed the measure had only strengthened their resolve to demonstrate.

• Friday, May 9th 2014 - 06:47 UTC

  Brazil says Mercosur/EU to meet in Brussels at the end of May for trade talks

  

  At the end of May Mercosur will be ready to exchange tariff-reduction proposals with the European Union, announced Brazilian Industry minister Mauro Borges who also anticipated the trade block would be holding a preparatory meeting next week in Caracas, Venezuela.

• Tuesday, April 29th 2014 - 21:24 UTC

  IATA calls on Venezuela to honor payment of airline funds, totaling 3.9bn

  

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on the Venezuelan government urgently to honor its commitment made in March to permit the repatriation of 3.9 billion dollars of airline funds at fair exchange rates. The funds are from sales of airline tickets in Venezuela and are being held in contravention of international treaties.

• Saturday, April 26th 2014 - 06:00 UTC

  Malvinas 'sooner than later' will return to Argentina, forecasts Maduro

  

  Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro forecasted that “sooner than later, the Malvinas Islands will return to the hands of the Argentine people” and recalled that during the recent Celac summit in Cuba (Community of Latin-American and Caribbean States) Latin-American was declared “a territory of peace and free of colonialism”.

• Tuesday, April 15th 2014 - 06:59 UTC

  Latin American leaders concerned and uneasy with the Venezuelan situation

  

  Most presidents of Latin America and particularly those from Mercosur are concerned with the Venezuelan situation, which generates uneasiness among opposition parties, mass media, corporations and citizens, the International Prospective Institute (IPI) states in a report.

• Thursday, April 10th 2014 - 06:22 UTC

  Venezuela invites Cardinal Parolin to become “mediator of good will”

  

  The Venezuelan government formally invited today the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to join the exploratory talks with the opposition as “mediator of good will” in order to find a solution to the violent situation in the country.

• Thursday, April 10th 2014 - 05:37 UTC

  China has become Latam's banker loaning 102bn dollars from 2005 to 2013

  

  China loaned 102 billion dollars to Latin America between 2005 and 2013, mainly to Venezuela and Argentina, while Mexico seems to be going the same way, according to a release from the Global Economic Governance Initiative which depends from the University of Boston.