Venezuela

• Monday, November 25th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

  Venezuelan regime keeps targeting Argentine Embassy in Caracas

  

  Argentine authorities denounced during the weekend that the diplomatic mission in Caracas -now under Brazil's protection following the diplomatic breakup between the governments of Nicolás Maduro and Javier Miei- has been placed under siege, targetting the six aides of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado who sought asylum there earlier this year.

• Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:37 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition leader Machado under criminal investigation

  

  Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office Friday launched a probe into disenfranchised opposition leader María Corina Machado's support to a bill passed by the US House of Representatives contrary to the South American country's interests, it was announced in Caracas. In a statement, the initiative in Washington was described as a legal absurdity sponsoring criminal acts against the Venezuelan people by enlarging “the catalog of illegal sanctions.” The measure also seeks to stain the name of our Liberator Simón Bolívar and violate Venezuela's Constitution as well as its laws and sovereignty.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 18:52 UTC

  Blinken recognizes González Urrutia as Venezuelan President-elect

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country was recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela despite announcements -albeit with little credibility- by authorities in Caracas that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed. González Urrutia, who ran on behalf of the Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) given María Corina Machado's disenfranchisement, sought asylum in September in Spain after the Chavista regime issued an arrest warrant against him.

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Venezuelan ambassador returns to Brasilia

  

  Venezuela's Ambassador to Brazil Manuel Vadell returned to Brasilia on Thursday after two weeks in Caracas for consultations, thus ending the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The diplomat announced this move through a video published on social networks. He had been summoned to Venezuela on Oct. 30, after Nicolás Maduro's regime said that statements by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Foreign Affairs Advisor Celso Amorim were “interfering and rude.”

• Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 10:06 UTC

  Brazil: FM heralds softer approach to Venezuelan crisis

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira insisted Wednesday that it was time to appease the diplomatic differences with Venezuela and not “repeat the mistakes we made with Guaidó's self-proclamation.” He was referring to the arguably illegal appointment of then-Congressman as interim head of state between Jan. 23 2019 and Jan. 25 2023 after not recognizing the elections' outcome. In the end, President Nicolás Maduro was never removed from the Miraflores Palace and Guaidó's legitimacy eventually faded away, with only some countries recognizing him.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Lula says Maduro not Brazil's problem

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview with RedeTV that Nicolás Maduro was “Venezuela's problem,” not his country's. “It seems to me that it was a wise reflection by Lula,” Maduro replied after recent incidents between the two Latin American nations resulting in Caracas being excluded from the BRICS associate membership granted to Bolivia and Cuba, among others.

• Friday, November 8th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

  González Urrutia says Interpol red alert on him stems from his work in exile

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, regarded by many as the true winner of the July 28 elections, insisted Thursday that the red alert issued against him by Caracas' Bolivarian regime through the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), was the consequence of “our work abroad” to gather international strength to ban Nicolás Maduro from remaining in power after January.

• Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 07:20 UTC

  AgroAlba MOU signed in Caracas

  

  The Governments of Venezuela and St Vincent and the Grenadines signed Wednesday the AgroAlba Memorandum of Understanding in Caracas. The multilateral initiative is an integration mechanism within The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) seeking to foster productive investment and strengthen food sovereignty through the promotion of sustainable development, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil explained.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

  World leaders congratulate Trump on his win - still not Harris

  

  While leaders from the world over have congratulated Republican candidate Donald J. Trump on his electoral win on Tuesday which has earned him a second 4-year term at The Oval Office, Vice President Kamala Harris is yet to acknowledge defeat, as is customary in these cases. Perhaps Trump himself was the only one to break that tradition four years ago when rumors of vote count-rigging still gave him hope against Joseph Biden.

• Monday, November 4th 2024 - 22:30 UTC

  Venezuela and Iran sign deal for optic fiber plant

  

  Venezuelan and Iranian authorities announced this weekend the signing of an agreement to build a fiber optic factory in the South American country, more specifically in La Guaira, a State just 30 kilometers north of Caracas and home to the country's gateway Simón Bolívar Airport.