Venezuela

• Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 06:20 UTC

  Spain asks Venezuela to offer “democratic guarantees” in parliamentary elections

  

  The Spanish government has asked the Venezuelan authorities to offer ‘democratic guarantees’ in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Guaidó and 37 parties reject Venezuela congressional election and call for increased international pressure

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Monday announced a “unitary pact” supported by a coalition of parties calling for increased international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro as the country heads toward a congressional election in December.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Venezuelan government confident it will regain control of the Assembly and thus no need for a new constitution

  

  Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly will not deliver a new constitution, the legislature's chief Diosdado Cabello said on Sunday, despite repeated assurances from assembly members that the body was preparing to update the 1999 Magna Carta.

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Guaidó counts with US keeping pressure on Maduro whoever wins November election

  

  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Friday he is counting on the United States to maintain pressure on President Nicolas Maduro no matter who wins the US' November presidential election.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Venezuela, Argentina and Colombia among the highest rates in Bloomberg's Misery Index

  

  Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which tallies inflation and unemployment outlooks for 60 economies shows that almost all of the economies surveyed are projected to be more miserable this year amid Covid-19, with analysts expecting increased joblessness and tepid growth.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Oil spill from refinery triggers an environmental disaster along the Venezuelan coastline

  

  A strip of Venezuela's western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems such as mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half a century to fully recover from the environmental impacts of a recent oil spill, a researcher said.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Colombia claims Venezuela is working to acquire missiles from Iran

  

  Colombia's President Ivan Duque claimed on Thursday that the government of President Nicolas Maduro in neighboring Venezuela was working to acquire missiles from its ally Iran.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Trump accuses Venezuelan president Maduro of blocking humanitarian evacuation flights for US citizens

  

  The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is blocking US citizens in the country from leaving, rebuffing efforts by Washington to arrange humanitarian evacuation flights, a State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday.

• Friday, August 14th 2020 - 10:14 UTC

  More pressure on Cuba: all private charter flights with the US suspended

  

  The US administration has suspended all private charter flights between the United States and Cuba, to increase economic pressure on Havana. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that “the Castro regime uses tourism and travel funds to finance its abuses and interference in Venezuela”.

• Friday, August 14th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Caracas district governor and close ally of Maduro died of Covid-19

  

  Dario Vivas, the governor of Venezuela's Caracas capital district and a strong ally of President Nicolas Maduro, died on Thursday of Covid-19 at 70 years old, officials said.