Venezuela

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 07:12 UTC

  Bullrich asks DEA to arrest Maduro in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina's opposition leader Patricia Bullrich, chairwoman of the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) party, a majority partner in the Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) alliance Sunday filed a request before the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro once he lands in Buenos Aires for the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 21:51 UTC

  Argentine opposition wants Maduro arrested if he attends Celac Summit

  

  Argentine opposition leader and presidential hopeful Patricia Bullrich Thursday called for the arrest of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro should he travel to Buenos Aires for next week's VII Celac Summit. Maduro's travel plans are yet to be announced.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  PDVSA suspends oil exports to review contract terms fearing no payment defaults

  

  Venezuela's PDVSA announced it was suspending most of its crude oil exports to review the contractual terms. The review aims to make sure there will be no payment defaults, pointing out that the imposition of U.S. sanctions on the trade in Venezuelan,

• Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Millions of Venezuelans suffering from nutritional deficit, Maduro tells the National Assembly

  

  Some 2,3 million Venezuelans are exposed and suffering a serious nutritional deficit, according to stats presented by the government of Nicolas Maduro to Congress, but the situation has considerably improved since 2017, when a third of the Venezuelan population (some 11 million) was suffering some kind of food insufficiency.

• Friday, January 13th 2023 - 21:09 UTC

  Maduro highlights improvement in malnourishment - only 7.7% of Venezuelans

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Thursday insisted that his administration was tackling the issue of malnourishment suffered by nearly 2.3 million people nationwide, according to the government's latest reports.

• Monday, January 9th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Caracas issues arrest warrant against 2015 Assembly Board

  

  A Venezuelan court has ordered the arrest capture of members of the new board of the 2015 National Assembly, the body that once appointed Juan Guaidó as acting President after saying Nicolás Maduro had been re-elected in a rigged process.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 21:45 UTC

  Chevron activities picking up pace in Venezuela

  

  The first shipment of Venezuelan crude oil to a US refinery in quite a while is about to set sail, it was reported in Caracas. Oil producer Chevron is to send the oil to its Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery after obtaining a US license in 2022.

• Saturday, December 31st 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Guaidó's role as Venezuelan acting president comes to an end

  

  The office of “acting president” of Venezuela once entrusted to opposition leader Juan Guaidó was suppressed as of Jan. 5 by the same assembly that chose to create it in 2019.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 19:44 UTC

  Brazil lifts entry ban: Maduro may attend Lula's inauguration

  

  Brazilian authorities have lifted the restrictions banning Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking officials since 2019 from entering the country so that they can attend Sunday's inauguration of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, it was published Friday in the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette).

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó experiment coming to an end as US interests change

  

  The United States-sponsored experiment with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is coming to an end. Lawmakers who supported his “interim government” are close to officially dissolve it with a vote on the move now postponed until the new year.