USA he insisted this Sunday on requesting the “unconditional” release of the six former directors of the Venezuelan company Citgo imprisoned in Venezuela, on the fourth anniversary of his arrest in the Caribbean country. The spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, said in a statement that this Sunday marks four years since those […]
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Voting centers open in Venezuela for regional and local elections
Updated on 11/21/2021 10:21 am The opening of the voting centers for the elections regional and local this Sunday in Venezuela It began after 6 a.m. local time (10 a.m. GMT), at which time all polling stations in the country should be installed, according to the mandate of the National Electoral Council (CNE). Both the […]
The EU Chief Observer will be in Caracas during Election Day
Updated on 11/20/2021 12:42 pm The head of the Electoral Observation Mission of the European Union (MOE-UE) and Venezuela, Isabel Santos, will carry out her work in the local and regional elections this Sunday in Caracas and its metropolitan area, where it will visit several voting centers, the community bloc reported this Saturday. Following the […]
Why the EU should not legitimize the elections in Venezuela
By Eli Lake Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that Sunday’s municipal and provincial elections in Venezuela will mark a return to democracy for this impoverished South American country. While some opposition politicians will participate, others have been arrested by the Nicolás Maduro regime. Most of the country’s powerful institutions, from courts to banks, are […]
Seduce the abstentionist and overcome the fracture, the opposition challenge in Venezuela
After trying to reach Ithaca by way of public proclamation, the Venezuelan opposition launches an “old” strategy: the ballot box. Four years of electoral boycott have passed and now they must convince their supporters, who are the majority according to polls, that voting is worth it, while they try to overcome their perennial fractures. The […]
What is at stake in the regional elections in Venezuela?
Venezuelans will go to the polling stations on Sunday, when more than 3,000 positions are disputed to governors, mayors and municipal councils, in the first measurement of forces since 2017 between the chavismo and the opposition, which had abstained from participating in past elections. Why is voting important? If the opposition suffers a total disaster […]
Swiss regulator rebukes two other banks in money laundering investigation from Venezuela
Updated on 11/18/2021 12:37 pm Switzerland’s financial regulator chastised two other banks in the country for failing to comply with their obligations to combat money laundering by concluding a five-year investigation into lenders’ dealings with people with ties to Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. The control body of FINMA contacted 30 Swiss banks during its […]
They will investigate alleged payments of the Chavista regime of Venezuela to former leaders of the Podemos party
The Economic and Financial Crimes Unit (UDEF) of the Spanish Police will investigate the alleged payments that the Chavista regime of Venezuela made former leaders of the political formation Podemos such as Juan Carlos Monedero and Carolina Bescansa, and that have been revealed by former Venezuelan general Hugo Armando Carvajal, known as El Pollo Carvajal. […]
The United States affirms that in Venezuela there are no conditions for fair and free elections
The elections next Sunday in Venezuela do not meet the conditions to be fair or free, said Kevin O’Reilly, deputy undersecretary for the Americas of the State Department, who assured that Washington will support the efforts “to restore democracy” in the country. “Conditions are not in place for free and fair elections in Venezuela“, he […]
Advantage, division, scarcity: Venezuela’s electoral ingredients concentrated in one state
A gigantic Chavismo campaign with resources from the Venezuelan state in the face of a divided opposition, also hit by the lack of gasoline and insecurity: the border state of Táchira sums up well all the ingredients that make up Sunday’s elections for mayors and governors. Venezuelans will elect 23 governors and 335 mayors, in […]