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Montevideo, October 24th 2025 - 16:51 UTC

Venezuela

  • Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:03 UTC

    Venezuelan NGO claims political prisoners risk never-ending trials

    None of the prisons that host the defendants is near the court handling the case, the NGO pointed out

    According to a Venezuelan Non-Government Organization, 13 inmates deemed to be political prisoners, have been transferred from the Ramo Verde detention center to regular jailhouses for ordinary criminals, which allegedly jeopardizes the judicial review of these cases.

  • Friday, January 28th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

    With help from Iran and China, Venezuela recovering part of its production

    According to Lloyds List Intelligence, in 2020 around 150 ships transported Venezuelan oil to Asia, mainly via Malaysia to be moved to China and Indonesia

    By Felicity Bradstock for Oilprice.com – Venezuela appears to be following in Iran’s footsteps by starting to ignore U.S. sanctions on its oil industry to once again develop its substantial crude reserves. After years of stalling and losing out on international investment as well as vital revenues, Venezuela looks to be set to increase its oil production, fostering relationships with key export markets that are willing to risk U.S. retaliation to the move.

  • Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 20:53 UTC

    Chávez's daughter praises CFK in Tegucigalpa

    It is not easy to be a female President, CFK said

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and María Gabriela Chávez Contreras, daughter of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez Frías, met Wednesday at the National University of Honduras, where the former Argentine head of state delivered a speech under the title “Peoples always return”.

  • Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

    Argentina endorses request that Venezuela investigates human rights violations

    Machuca highlighted Argentina's stance in favor of the protection of all persons against forced disappearances

    Argentina Wednesday supported from its role within the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) previous requests filed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who insisted the Venezuelan administration of Nicolás Maduro needed to investigate the numerous reports on violations and hold the perpetrators accountable.

  • Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 14:28 UTC

    Uruguay and Chile, the least corrupt “in a corrupt continent”

    Uruguay gained two points since 2020 and ranks as the “least corrupt in a corrupt continent”.

    Corruption in Latin America is one of the most notorious problems on the region's agenda after a decade of major judicial operations that exposed corruption schemes involving governments and companies alike. According to Transparency International (TI), corruption has been entrenched in Latin America for more than a decade with little progress and many setbacks in terms of democracy and human rights.

  • Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

    ECLAC needs to set aside four rogue countries to measure inflation for year 2021

    Argentina, Haiti, Suriname and Venezuela need to be measured separately to have a better picture of the region's economy, ECLAC reported

    Inflation in Latin America for the year 2021 was way above projections, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has said in a report issued from its Santiago headquarters.

  • Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

    OAS condemns presence in Nicaragua, of Iranian official accused of aggravated murder by Argentine justice

    Daniel Ortega, with Venezuelan and Cuban presidents Maduro and Diaz-Canel and the Iranian official Mohsen Rezai

    Twenty-two-country members from the Organization of American States, OAS, on Wednesday approved a strong statement condemning the presence of the Iranian official Mohsen Rezai in Nicaragua during the taking office ceremony of president Daniel Ortega. Rezai has been indicted by Argentine Justice for his alleged masterminding of the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization Amia in Buenos Aires killing 85 people and injuring dozens.

  • Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

    Venezuela's elderly demand better pensions

    Retired health care and education workers make around US $ 1.45 a month

    Retired Venezuelan health care workers Wednesday staged a protest in demand for better pensions, claiming that what they were earning were “miserable salaries” with which they were being “starved to death”

  • Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

    Putin's false flag operation in Ukraine and the Cuba and Venezuela cards

    This is a minor diplomatic spat that has been deliberately inflated far beyond its merit, and it is being taken much too seriously.

    By Gwynne Dyer (*) – After a week of intense discussions about “security” between Russia and the NATO countries, this is the week when the Western allies will send their written replies to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Various pundits, some of whom have actually been to Russia, warn us that there will be “War in Europe” if Putin's demands are not met.

  • Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 20:54 UTC

    Venezuela resumes crude exports after nine months

    US sanctions had an impact until help from allied Iran arrived

    Venezuela's state-run PDVSA will begin exporting diluted crude oil (DCO) this week after a nine-month stoppage, it was reported in Caracas. The last time PDVSA shipped diluted crude to Asia was in April last year.