Venezuela

• 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.

• Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Venezuela closer to Mercosur and Argentina

  

  Venezuela's return to Mercosur, the resumption of flights between Buenos Aires and Caracas, and an invitation to President Nicolás Maduro to attend the CELAC summit in Buenos Aires next month are some of the signs showing the Argentine government's rapprochement with Chavismo. In addition to that, a rise in bilateral trade of up to 60% is expected.

• Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 18:45 UTC

  Pecci case: Suspect not to be extradited to Colombia

  

  A suspect arrested in Venezuela for his alleged involvement in the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia will not be extradited to stand trial, it was reported in Caracas.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 01:24 UTC

  Suspect in murder of Paraguayan prosecutor in Colombia captured in Venezuela

  

  Venezuelan authorities captured in Caracas a sixth suspect in the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in May, when he was spending his honeymoon on a beach in the Colombian Caribbean, Colombian police reported on Wednesday. His crime has been linked to several judiciary processes, such as Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastian Marset, who allegedly ordered the death of the prosecutor.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 01:20 UTC

  Venezuela: opposition majority calls for the termination of Juan Guaidó's “interim government”

  

  An opposition majority called this Wednesday for the cessation of functions of the “interim government” of Juan Guaidó in Venezuela by considering that, after four years of his self-proclamation, the mechanism was weakened without achieving the objectives of political change set out. This represents a change for dozens of countries that formaly still recognize the parliamentary leader and host opposition ambassadors in their territory.

• Monday, December 19th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  US Congress passes Bolivar Act banning deals with Maduro's gov't

  

  The US Senate has passed the so-called Bolivar Act whereby no business may be conducted with the Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro.