One night in October, Francisco Sagasti, who was Peru’s interim president for eight months until July, launched his new book in Barranco, a bohemian district of Lima. Sagasti, an academic, is a centrist who led the country through divisive elections. The event was interrupted by protesters who surrounded the bookstore shouting “corrupt” and “assassin”The author […]
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More than 26,000 Venezuelans returned to their country with the “Plan Vuelta a la Patria”
The government of Venezuela assured that since 2018 26,947 have returned to the Caribbean country venezuelans of 19 countries with the so-called “Plan Vuelta a la Patria” after the return of 99 citizens from Ecuador this weekend. “The excitement of coming home. Venezuela receives 99 nationals from Ecuador on a flight back to the Homeland. […]
More than 26,000 Venezuelans returned to the country with the “Plan Vuelta a la Patria”
The government of Venezuela assured that since 2018 26,947 have returned to the Caribbean country venezuelans of 19 countries with the so-called “Plan Vuelta a la Patria” after the return of 99 citizens from Ecuador this weekend. “The excitement of coming home. Venezuela receives 99 nationals from Ecuador on a flight back to the Homeland. […]
Caracas, memory of a capital at the forefront of the architecture of the 50s
Petroleum, economic boom, great works of the dictatorship: far from the economic crisis and today’s huge slums, Caracas was at the forefront of 1950s architecture, with projects from world-renowned designers. It was a magical decade in which the capital of Venezuela saw the birth of some of its great jewels: the campus of the Central […]
Venezuelan NGO denounces 36 violations of freedom of expression in October
La ONG Venezuelan Espacio Público denounced this Saturday that in October there were 36 violations of the freedom of expression in the country, with censorship, administrative restrictions and intimidation being the most frequent. “Censorship was imposed in October as the most recurrent violation of freedom of expression, in the middle of the electoral campaign of […]
Venezuela reduces oil target and abandons Maduro’s ambitions
Venezuela’s state oil company cut its production target by a third as years of corruption, brain drain and inadequate investment crippled the country’s energy infrastructure. PDVSA cut its daily production target to one million barrels from a 1.5 million barrel target announced in January, according to a company document seen by Bloomberg News and a […]
Venezuelan NGO denounces harassment against those who collaborate with the International Criminal Court
A total of 111 Venezuelan social and human rights organizations denounced that the Chavista authorities undertook a campaign of “discrediting and criminalization” against those who have cooperated with the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the preliminary examination that was opened on Venezuela. In a statement, published by the NGO Provea, it […]
Venezuelan opposition has Guaidó on the tight rope
Three years after Venezuela’s fractured opposition rallied around Juan Guaidó with strong U.S. backing, several of those same political parties are ready to challenge Washington and shed him as the flagship face of their movement. A group of governments, led by the United States, is pressuring the parties to extend Guaidó’s term as president of […]
International Criminal Court will investigate the Chavista regime of Venezuela for violating Human Rights
The International Criminal Court (ICC) open a formal investigation to Venezuela “To establish the truth in accordance with the Rome Statute, following the visit of the high court prosecutor, Karim Khan. “The ICC prosecutor has concluded the preliminary examination of the situation in Venezuela and has determined that an investigation should be opened to establish […]
Venezuelan opposition denounces use of PDVSA plane for Evo Morales’ trip
Updated on 11/03/2021 02:20 pm The former Bolivian president Evo Morales traveled from Bolivia to Argentina on a plane of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, denounced the opposition Eduardo Battistini. “Yesterday a PDVSA plane, registration YV2716, from Bolivia arrived in Argentina. Evo Morales was coming on that plane, who arrived in that country to […]