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 […]
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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 […]
With more troops, Colombia seeks to curb cocaine-fueled violence on the border with Venezuela
In sweltering heat, Colombian Army soldiers, wearing camouflaged suits and anti-COVID masks, walk through the dense vegetation with their assault rifles ready to respond to an eventual attack by their many enemies on the border with Venezuela. The soldiers are part of a new 14,000-strong military unit launched to stop escalating violence in the department […]
The “parallel charges” created by Chavismo would remain after Sunday’s elections
The promise of the illegitimate Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, to eliminate after the regional and local elections on Sunday the parallel entity in states ruled by opponents, which he himself has called “protector”, is in question due to the Communal Cities bill, which contemplates granting mayors powers to leaders of communes. The commitment was acquired […]
The uncomfortable campaign of Chavismo in keys of a destroyed Venezuela
The chavismo, unlike previous elections, faces the campaign for the regional and local elections of November 21 in a Venezuela destroyed dodging uncomfortable issues. These uncomfortable issues for the Chavista regime are the extradition of the Colombian businessman Álex Saab – alleged front man of the illegitimate president Nicolás Maduro – which obscures its objective […]
The irregularities of the electoral process in Venezuela in codes
One week before the regional and local elections in Venezuela, complaints about irregularities in the campaign are increasing, despite having guarantees that the opposition has demanded for years, such as international observation of the European Union (EU) and the Carter Center, and a National Electoral Council (CNE) more plural and diverse. The claims and complaints […]
Chávez lives, at least in campaign, because the Maduro regime has nothing better to offer
His speeches, his sentences, his photos and his eyes, the omnipresent eyes. He passed away eight years ago, but Hugo Chavez It continues to be the best letter for their heirs, in need of reconnecting with the Venezuelan citizens, for that reason, already fully involved in the campaign, they have once again turned to the […]
Venezuela, from polarization to laziness in upcoming elections for mayors and governors
The Venezuela mobilized, radically divided in two, polarized and on the street today is a thing of the past. In the streets of the Caribbean country, laziness weighs, essentially, in a population that, according to the polls, wants a change but cannot find a leader who responds to its desires. When Venezuelans go to the […]