Venezuela

• Monday, January 6th 2025 - 10:45 UTC

  González Urrutia recalls that his inauguration would make him commander-in-chief of Venezuela's armed forces

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia who insists he won the controversial July 28 elections and will be sworn in next Friday in Caracas warned his country's armed forces that, as of that day, he will become their “commander in chief.” As such, he demanded absolute loyalty, which has nonetheless been pledged to the incumbent Nicolás Maduro.

• Monday, January 6th 2025 - 10:38 UTC

  María Corina Machado calls for mass protests against Maduro in Venezuela

  

  Opposition leader María Corina Machado on Sunday called for a day of demonstrations on Thursday, January 9 in Venezuela, the eve of Nicolás Maduro's swearing-in for a third term, amid allegations of electoral fraud.

• Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 16:34 UTC

  Milei welcomes González Urrutia at Casa Rosada

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many regard as the truthful winner of the July 28 elections in his country, was welcomed Saturday by Argentine President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada. He made Buenos Aires the first stop of his tour ahead of what he has announced will be his inauguration on Jan. 10 in Caracas despite Nicolás Maduro's regime planning otherwise and offering a US$100,000 reward for his head.

• Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 11:56 UTC

  The challenge for Edmundo González, touring Argentina and Uruguay: can he avoid a new Guaidó scenario?

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia visits Montevideo this Saturday as part of a regional tour aimed at obtaining international backing to assume the Presidency of Venezuela next January 10, after declaring himself the winner of last July's elections, according to the voting tallies collected by the opposition. During his stay, he will meet with President Luis Lacalle Pou and Foreign Minister Omar Paganini, who reiterated Uruguay's support to the legitimacy of his electoral triumph.

• Friday, January 3rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

  Milei and González Urrutia to meet at Casa Rosada

  

  President Javier Milei will be meeting Saturday in Casa Rosada with Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, who has been recognized by many countries -including Argentina- as the legitimate winner of the controversial July 28 elections where the incumbent Nicolás Maduro was announced as victor for a new term starting on Jan. 10.

• Friday, January 3rd 2025 - 10:26 UTC

  Brazil's Ambassador to attend Maduro's inauguration

  

  President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be sending Brazil's Ambassador in Caracas to Nicolás Maduro's Jan. 10 inauguration of another six-year term in office. Once regarded as close allies and friends, Maduro and Lula do not see eye to eye after the controversial July 28 elections where the Chavista leader was declared the winner despite fraud allegations by Edmundo González Urrutia's Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD).

• Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 10:20 UTC

  Venezuelan FM speaks the worst about his Argentine colleague

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil told his Argentine colleague Gerardo Werthein on social media he had “no morals to talk about Venezuela” and insisted that the latter's true legacy lay “in the fortunes amassed in the shadow of any opportunist government and under the complicity of the darkest dictatorship that devastated Argentina.” Gil also insisted that Buenos Aires' “terrorist plans” had ”failed categorically, just as any attempt to impose their hypocrisy and arrogance on us will fail.

• Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 22:21 UTC

  Former Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela accused of treason

  

  Argentia's Security Minister Thursday filed criminal charges for treason against former Ambassador to Venezuela Oscar Laborde for meddling before the Bolivarian regime in the case of Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) non-commissioned officer Nahuel Gallo who was apprehended by Caracas and accused of espionage. Signing the documents was Security Ministry's Chief Legal Counselor Fernando Soto.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  Colombia and Mexico to be represented at Maduro's new inauguration

  

  Authorities in Bogotá and Mexico City admitted this week that their governments will be represented in Caracas on Jan. 10 when President Nicolás Maduro takes his oath of office for a new six-year term (2025-2031)for which he was chosen in the controversial July 28 elections which the opposition also claims to have won.

• Monday, December 23rd 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  Venezuela steps up Essequibo deployment amid dispute with Guyana

  

  Venezuela's Bolivarian regime has built a bridge reaffirming its sovereignty claims over Guyana Essequiba. The provisional structure will allow the arrival of heavier machinery for the definitive bridge, it was explained. Last Thursday, a fixed bridge over the Cuyuní River on the island of Anacoco was inaugurated as part of the Venezuelan government's efforts to reaffirm its sovereignty over that disputed region. Attending the ceremony were Defense Minister Vladímir Padrino López and Transport Minister Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, among other high-ranking officials and military commanders.