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Montevideo, December 10th 2025 - 00:59 UTC

Venezuela

  • Thursday, August 1st 2024 - 21:03 UTC

    Brazilian flag flies over Argentine Embassy in Caracas

    Brazil is also representing Peruvian interests in Venezuela

    The Brazilian flag was hoisted Thursday at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, where six Venezuelan asylum seekers were left behind by the departing diplomatic team.

  • Thursday, August 1st 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    Musk agrees to fight Maduro “mano a mano”

    I'll take you on your ride to Mars offer “but you're coming with me,” Maduro said

    Tycoon Elon Musk Wednesday accepted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's challenge to engage in a fistfight. “If I win, he resigns as dictator of Venezuela,” the Tesla CEO said in his reply. If defeated, Musk -whose company SpaceX has launched numerous satellites into orbit- also offered to give Maduro a free ride to Mars.

  • Thursday, August 1st 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Brazil representing Argentine interests in Caracas

    The fate of the six opposition asylum-seekers is yet to be known when the Argentine Embassy is vacated

    Brazil's diplomatic mission in Caracas will be representing Argentina's interests starting Thursday at 9 am local time after the Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro expelled Buenos Aires' delegation given President Javier Milei's decision not to recognize the results of the elections announced last Sunday whereby the incumbent head of state would have been chosen for the 2025-2031 term.

  • Thursday, August 1st 2024 - 09:06 UTC

    OAS fails to pass resolution calling for transparency in Venezuela

    The Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council was one vote short Wednesday of passing a resolution to demand that Venezuelan electoral authorities publish the minutes of each voting table which would prove there was no fraud last Sunday when the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had been lawfully chosen for the 2025-2031 term.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 20:30 UTC

    International community underlines lack of transparency in Venezuelan elections

    The Carter Center is yet to publish a final report on the Venezuelan 2024 elections

    The international community keeps harboring doubts as to the authenticity of the rsults for the Venezuelan presidential elections announced in Caracas by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday. A joint statement was issued Wednesday in this regard by the foreign ministers of the seven countries making up the G7, arguably the strongest nations from an economic viewpoint which also enforce democratic principles while the Carter Center, one of the observers participating in the process, admitted it could not be considered “democratic.”

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 11:05 UTC

    At least 11 reported dead in Venezuelan rioting

    Maduro held González Urrutia responsible for the violence

    At least 11 people were killed across Venezuela amid riots protesting against the announced result of Sunday's presidential elections in which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro was said to have won another six-year term (2025-2031), it was reported Tuesday in Caracas. In this scenario, 749 have been arrested and 48 law enforcement officers were reported injured. The Non-Government Organization (NGO) Foro Penal believed the number of casualties reached 29.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Maduro's regime leaves Argentine Embassy powerless

    “We hold the regime responsible for the siege of this diplomatic headquarters, violating international law and the Caracas convention,” asylum seeker Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli wrote on X

    Venezuelan authorities left Argentina's Embassy in Caracas with no electricity supply Tuesday as diplomatic ties between the two countries came to a technical rift while the fate of opposition leaders Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli, Magalí Meda, Claudia Macero, Humberto Villalobos, Facundo Martínez Mottola, and Omar González, who had been granted asylum and were housed there pending a safe passage to the airport that never came was still in doubt.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 22:16 UTC

    Peru's gov't recognizes González Urrutia as winner of Venezuelan elections

    Maduro wants to stay in power forever through a dictatorship, González Olaechea stressed

    The Peruvian government of President Dina Boluarte Tuesday recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate president-elect of Venezuela, despite the announcement by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday in Caracas that Nicolás Maduro had been voted by 51.2% of the people for the 2025-2031 term against 44.2% for the challenger. “Clearly Edmundo Gonzalez is the elected president of Venezuela; this position is shared by numerous countries, governments, and international organizations,” said Foreign Minister Javier Gonzalez Olaechea.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 21:42 UTC

    María Corina Machado's arrest ordered, Venezuelan opposition warns

    The political climate in Venezuela has grown increasingly volatile following the contested election results

    The Venezuelan government under President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the arrest of opposition leader María Corina Machado, a prominent figure in the Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD). This move, denounced by leaders within PUD, comes amid a turbulent post-election period marked by accusations of irregularities and widespread unrest.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 19:31 UTC

    OAS report says Venezuela's elections results untrustworthy given CNE bias

    The OAS Permanent Council is to address the matter of the electoral process in Venezuela on Wednesday

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's reelection is not to be taken at face value, according to the Organization of American States (OAS). The continental entity's election observation department found on Tuesday that the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas is known to be pro-government biased.