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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 09:06 UTC

Venezuela

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 15:39 UTC

    HRW against repeating Venezuelan elections

    Goebertus also urged these three “governments to insist on independent verification of the results”

    The governments of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia were sent letters by Human Rights Watch (HRW) pointing out that repeating the elections In Venezuela would serve no purpose. The New York-headquartered non-governmental organization known for advocating in favor of political prisoners and other victims of injustice added that the proposal put forward by these three Latin American countries would be a “mockery,” while granting President Nicolás Maduro's regime an amnesty “would violate international law and affect the rights of victims of atrocities.”

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:47 UTC

    Foreign Ministers of Iran and Venezuela ratify partnership

    “We reaffirmed the solid friendship between our countries,” Gil stressed

    The Foreign Ministers of Venezuela, Yván Gil, and Iran, Abbas Araghchi, held a telephone conversation during which their countries' willingness to expand bilateral cooperation.

  • Monday, August 26th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Lacalle to speak before the UN about Venezuela's electoral fraud

    If Venezuela's electoral fraud loses centrality, Maduro gets to stay in power, Lacalle argued

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou plans to address the issue of the Venezuelan crisis during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), it was reported this weekend in Montevideo. The National Party leader is convinced that “there is no will [in Caracas] to count the votes.”

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 10:42 UTC

    Venezuela to hold commune elections this weekend

    Maduro also agreed with a bill whereby those who disregard court rulings in his favor cannot participate in electoral processes

    The Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro heads for Sunday's commune elections with the results of the July 28 presidential polls questioned by about half of the world's governments. Communes are new forms of social organization based on self-management, Agência Brasil explained. There are 4,500 of them nationwide. Communal councils are some sort of permanent popular assemblies of residents of a neighborhood or rural area.

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

    OAS rejects court ruling saying Maduro was reelected in Venezuela

    It was also unthinkable to expect the Venezuelan CNE to hold free, fair, and transparent elections, the OAS noted

    The Organization of American States (OAS) General Secretariat Friday issued a statement rejecting Thursday's ruling by Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) whereby the incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of the July 28 polls and would therefore rule the South American country between 2025 and 2031.

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 08:50 UTC

    Eleven countries in the Americas not to honor Caracas' TSJ ruling

    In a separate declaration, Patel said that a ruling “by the Maduro-controlled Supreme Court of Justice has no credibility”

    Eleven countries in the Americas issued a statement Friday saying they would not be recognizing Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ruling declaring Nicolás Maduro the winner of the July 28 elections without producing any of the voting minutes to back up such a claim.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Four LatAm countries insist Venezuela's TSJ consolidated fraud

    Arévalo de León, Boric, Lacalle, and Peña agreed on calling Maduro a dictator

    Four Latin American countries were quick Thursday to voice their disagreement with Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ratifying incumbent President Nicolás Maduro's alleged win at the July 28 elections despite fraud denunciations by the opposition backed by the Organization of American States (OAS) and a large part of the international community.

  • Thursday, August 22nd 2024 - 20:56 UTC

    Venezuela's TSJ rules that Maduro won the July 28 elections

    “We can conclude that the bulletins issued by the CNE are supported by the tally sheets issued by each of the voting machines,” Caryslia Rodríguez stressed

    The Electoral Chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ruled Thursday that incumbent President Nicolás Maduro won the July 28 polls and therefore has been reelected for the 2025-2031 term, Chief Justice Caryslia Rodríguez announced.

  • Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 02:34 UTC

    Assembly Speaker claims NGOs in Venezuela respond to Washington

    NGOs are facades seeking to destabilize Caracas, Rodríguez argued

    Venezuelan National Assembly Speaker Jorge Rodríguez claimed Monday that Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were Trojan horses used by Washington to destabilize his country.

  • Tuesday, August 20th 2024 - 12:32 UTC

    Paraguayan President concerned about Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba

    Peña also recalled that Paraguay had endured “the longest dictatorship in South America”

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Monday highlighted Latin America's peace and freedom but insisted that Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba should be matters of “enormous concern” for the international community.