Updated on 01/20/2022 11:51 am US senators dealt a fatal blow on Wednesday to the electoral reform project promoted by President Joe Biden to defend the right to vote for minorities. The senators refused to initiate the only procedure that could have allowed the Democrats to put this project to a vote without the votes […]
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Russia alleges its security when asked about missiles in Cuba and Venezuela
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, avoided giving a clear answer to the possibility of Russia placing missiles in Cuba and Venezuela by assuring that Moscow is studying different variants to guarantee their security. “In the context of the current situation, Russia is thinking about how to guarantee its own security,” he said at his press […]
Colombia: Duque questions all dialogue on Venezuela while Maduro remains in power
the president of Colombia, Iván Duque, questioned all efforts aimed at re-establishing a dialogue process to find a way out of the situation in Venezuela as long as Nicolás Maduro remains in power. “Going back to the table is simply prolonging the agony of dialogues that have no basis because what the dictator wants is […]
Venezuela comes out of hyperinflation but the pocket does not feel change
“Hyperinflation is over, but it will have been at home,” says Humberto Reco in a popular market in Caracas, not expecting prices to stop rising out of control as they have in the last four years. This 75-year-old pensioner resents in his thin body that Venezuela continues to be the country with the highest inflation […]
Venezuela sent gasoline and food to Cuba in the last two months, despite shortages in the country
Venezuela has boosted shipments of gasoline and food to Cuba since November, providing key supplies to one of the closest allies of illegitimate President Nicolás Maduro, according to documents from Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA and vessel tracking data from Refinitiv Eikon. From late November to early January, PDVSA shipped at least three shipments containing […]
HRW: Maduro used the state of emergency for COVID-19 to intensify control
The illegitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, used the state of emergency decreed by the arrival of COVID-19 to intensify his control of the population, Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced in a report. In its annual report, HRW affirms that the Chavista Maduro regime and its security forces “They are responsible for extrajudicial executions, disappearances […]
China buys sanctioned oil from Venezuela at a bargain price
Updated on 01/11/2022 05:08 am China doubled imports of Venezuelan and Iranian crude in 2021, taking full advantage of US-sanctioned regimes, as the nation’s refineries dismissed the risk of sanctions to source cheap oil. Crude processors from the world’s largest importer bought 324 million barrels from Iran and Venezuela in 2021, about 53% more than […]
Inflation in Venezuela slows down and closes in 2021 at 686.4%
Updated on 08/01/2022 12:28 pm Venezuela closes 2021 with a inflation of 686.4%, which shows a slowdown with respect to the previous year when it stood at 2,959.8%, according to the data released on Saturday by the Central Bank, but the South American country still continues under a long economic crisis. In December, prices had […]
Venezuelan NGO denounces impunity for the “execution” of 23 people a year ago
The NGO Program Venezuelan of Education-Action in Human Rights (Provea) denounced this Saturday the impunity that persists in the case of the alleged “extrajudicial execution” of 23 civilians in a police operation carried out a year ago in the La Vega area, west of Caracas. “The inhabitants of La Vega are still waiting for an […]
Guaidó extends his powerless “presidency” in Venezuela with US support.
Juan Guaidó will be “in charge of the presidency” of Venezuela another year, without real power and facing deep fractures in the opposition, but with the support of the United States, which gave vast blocked resources to the illegitimate government of Nicolás Maduro. The outlook is not encouraging for this 38-year-old leader, with extremely low […]