Venezuela

• Saturday, November 26th 2022 - 10:51 UTC

  Colombia: Mexico agrees to join as guarantor of peace talks with ELN

  

  President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Friday told his Colombian colleague Gustavo Petro that Mexico had accepted the invitation to join as guarantor of the peace talks between the South American country's administration and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas.

• Saturday, November 26th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Guarantors of Colombia-ELN peace talks ratified

  

  Negotiators in the Colombian peace process involving the government of President Gustavo Petro and remnants of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas Friday agreed in Caracas to ratify Cuba, Norway, and Venezuela as guarantor countries in the talks.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  Colombian gov't, ELN resume peace talks in Caracas

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that “time for peace has arrived” as dignitaries from the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas started their ceasefire talks in Caracas Monday.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 18:31 UTC

  Maduro urges like-minded regional leaders to seize the opportunity

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged his fellow leftwing Latin American leaders to seize the opportunity to strengthen regional integration and “agree on the construction of a common economic space” and of “a common monetary system.”

• Friday, November 18th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Venezuela after Guyana's oil claiming border dispute in The Hague

  

  “We will demonstrate Guyana's claim is inadmissible,” Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said on Thursday to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which is the United Nations' highest for resolving disputes between states.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 08:41 UTC

  Venezuela to defend Essequibo case before ICJ

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Thursday announced that his administration would resort to The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) to solve the territorial dispute with Guyana over the Essequibo region.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 22:09 UTC

  Bachelet, Duhalde, Mujica and other Latin American leaders ask Maduro to restore Unasur

  

  A group of former South American presidents, foreign ministers, high-ranking officials, lawmakers, and intellectuals Monday sent a letter to Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro inviting him to join their initiative to relaunch the Union of South American Nations (Unasur for its Spanish name).

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Maduro's administration deepens cooperation ties with Iran

  

  The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to deepen their mutual cooperation in matters of science, education, technology, and energy security, the South American country's Minister of Science and Technology Gabriela Jiménez announced Sunday from Tehran.

• Saturday, November 12th 2022 - 10:49 UTC

  Venezuelan crisis discussed in Paris

  

  The Presidents of France, Colombia, and Argentina Friday discussed in Paris possible ways out of Venezuela's crisis which has sparked a large-scale migration of citizens of that oil-rich South American country.

• Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Maduro-Kerry handshake “unplanned,” US gov't says

  

  The Government of the United States was quick to explain Wednesday that the much-publicized handshake between Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Climate Envoy John Kerry in Sharm El-Sheikh was an “unplanned” event.