Venezuela

• Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  María Corina Machado denies Maduro's claims of exile: “I am still in Venezuela”

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has categorically denied President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that she has fled the country and sought refuge in Spain. For days, Maduro had been pushing the narrative that Machado had left Venezuela, allegedly following the path of fellow opposition figure Edmundo González Urrutia, who sought asylum in Spain. On Wednesday, however, Machado dispelled these rumors, asserting in a televised interview, “Venezuelans know that I am still here, and Nicolás Maduro knows it too. They are desperate to know where I am, but I am protecting myself and caring for myself. I am not going to give them that pleasure.”

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

  Venezuela to seek reparations from Spain's colonialism

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said his country would be seeking reparations from Spain for what happened during the colonialism years. In the Chavista leader's view, the European kingdom has never “asked for forgiveness” and instead took shelter “in the ideology of negationism.”

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 09:29 UTC

  Maduro makes major military brass reshuffle

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros announced Monday that he was keeping Vladimir Padrino López as Defense Minister but was otherwise making a major reshuffle within the Bolivarian Armed Forces' brass, including the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin). Padrino López has been Defense Minister since October 2014.

• Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 10:02 UTC

  Venezuela's Supreme Court refuses to review Maduro's victory

  

  The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) on Friday declared “inadmissible” an appeal filed by former presidential candidate Enrique Márquez to review the National Electoral Council's (CNE) announcement that incumbent Nicolás Maduro Moros had won the July 28 election and would govern the South American country until 2031.

• Friday, October 4th 2024 - 22:16 UTC

  Edmundo González vows to return to Venezuela “as soon as possible” to restore democracy

  

  Opposition leader Edmundo González, widely recognized by the international community as the winner of Venezuela's July 28 elections, has reaffirmed his commitment to returning to his country before January 10, the date set for the presidential inauguration. Speaking at the La Toja Atlantic Forum in Galicia, González stated, “I will return to Venezuela as soon as possible, when we restore democracy in our country.”

• Friday, October 4th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

  Venezuela offers humanitarian help to war-torn Lebanon

  

  President Nicolás Maduro Thursday said Venezuela would be helping Lebanon through the current crisis due to Israel's offensive. During a meeting with Beirut's Ambassador in Caracas Elías Lebbos at the Miraflores Palace, the Chavista leader said that humanitarian brigades would be sent to the war-torn area and ratified the South American nation's support to Beirut against Tel Aviv.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2024 - 09:30 UTC

  Venezuela issues arrest warrant against 16 other Argentines in connection with Emtrasur case

  

  Venezuela's Public Prosecutor's Office Monday requested the arrest of another 16 Argentines in connection with the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter airplane seized in Buenos Aires and handed over to the United States during the government of Alberto Fernández for its alleged involvement in logistics support to Iran-backed terrorist activities.

• Monday, September 30th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

  Brazilian FM asks Venezuelan colleague to let refugees go to Argentina

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira asked his Venezuelan counterpart Yván Gil for a safe-conduct for the six opposition leaders staying at the premises of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas but has been left up to Itamaraty after the expulsion of Buenos Aires' mission.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

  Buenos Aires court orders arrest of Maduro, Cabello, and other Chavista leaders

  

  An Argentine court ordered Monday the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for their systematic plan to detain, kidnap, and torture people, which escalated after the controversial July 28 elections which the incumbent leader claims to have won despite producing no tangible evidence attesting to that. The measure also reaches over 30 Chavista leaders.

• Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 22:07 UTC

  Venezuela's Supreme Court okays Milei's prosecution

  

  The Criminal Chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) Monday gave its nod to the prosecution of Argentine President Javier Milei, Presidential Secretary Karina Milei, and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich in connection with the impounding and handing over of Emtrasur's Boeing 747-300 freighter handed over to the United States where the aircraft was wanted for its alleged involvements in terrorist activities under its previous Iranian ownership.