Venezuela

• Saturday, February 19th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Interior Minister wants Chile's northern borders fully closed

  

  Chile's Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado wants to close the country's northern border as a new stage of the “state of exception” already in force in four provinces where the migration crisis is escalating.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 21:08 UTC

  State of Emergency decreed in northern Chile to deal with irregular migration

  

  Chile's government has decreed a State of Exception in the country's northern region to address the migration crisis, which has resulted in both an increase in crime and in acts of xenophobia, it was announced.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Duque wants Ukraine crisis not to repeat itself in Latin America

  

  Colombia's President Iván Duque Tuesday told the European Parliament that Latin America was not going to be the stage of “geopolitical games of other nations,” which highly resemble the Cold War between the United States and its allies against the Soviet Union. His remarks were pointing at Russia's increasing military presence in Venezuela.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Starving Venezuelan pensioners take it to the streets of Caracas

  

  Venezuelan senior citizens Wednesday marched through Caracas' Plaza de La Moneda, not far from the presidential Miraflores Palace, to launch an “SOS” message and call for help as they can barely survive on their pay.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 22:01 UTC

  Cabello judicially seizes Caracas' El Nacional newspaper

  

  Caracas' El Nacional newspaper has been handed over to United Socialist Party of Venezuela Deputy Chairman Diosdado Cabello Rondón, thus executing a judiciary ruling issued late in January in a damages suit against the publication.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  Venezuela allows flights to and from Portugal to resume

  

  The Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro Wednesday gave the nod to the resumption of commercial flights to and from Portugal, which were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 23:38 UTC

  Thousands of Venezuelan migrant fans were present in the stands at Montevideo’s Centenario stadium in a football match

  

  The Uruguayan national won on Tuesday afternoon against Venezuela for the 16th date of the South American qualifiers in search of a qualifying place in the Qatar 2022 World Cup. The Venezuelan national team, although away and with no chance of qualifying, played this match with significant support from fans at the stadium that started to live it since the team arrived in the country last Monday.

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

  Venezuelan NGO claims political prisoners risk never-ending trials

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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”.