Venezuela

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country was recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela despite announcements -albeit with little credibility- by authorities in Caracas that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed. González Urrutia, who ran on behalf of the […]

Antony Blinken makes statement months after President Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won July contestThe US government has recognized Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the “president-elect” of the South American country, months after President Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won the July contest.Antony Blinken, the US […]

The brutal petrol trade between Venezuela and Colombia in 2012 is the backdrop to Andrés Baiz’s starry if slow-paced tale of brothers navigating the futureIt’s called the “caravan of death” – cars speeding, Mad Max-style, across the desert on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, loaded up with jerry cans of petrol. Colombian film-maker […]

Venezuela's Ambassador to Brazil Manuel Vadell returned to Brasilia on Thursday after two weeks in Caracas for consultations, thus ending the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The diplomat announced this move through a video published on social networks. He had been summoned to Venezuela on Oct. 30, after Nicolás Maduro's regime said that […]

Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira insisted Wednesday that it was time to appease the diplomatic differences with Venezuela and not "repeat the mistakes we made with Guaidó's self-proclamation." He was referring to the arguably illegal appointment of then-Congressman as interim head of state between Jan. 23 2019 and Jan. 25 2023 after not recognizing […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview with RedeTV that Nicolás Maduro was “Venezuela's problem,” not his country's. “It seems to me that it was a wise reflection by Lula,” Maduro replied after recent incidents between the two Latin American nations resulting in Caracas being excluded from the BRICS associate membership […]

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, regarded by many as the true winner of the July 28 elections, insisted Thursday that the red alert issued against him by Caracas' Bolivarian regime through the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), was the consequence of "our work abroad" to gather international strength to ban […]

Nicolás Maduro once called Trump a ‘racist cowboy’ but is now seeking rapprochement with the US president-electDuring his first administration, Donald Trump waged a “maximum pressure” campaign against Nicolás Maduro, unsuccessfully trying to depose Venezuela’s authoritarian leader with an arsenal of sanctions, cyber-attacks and threats.But this […]

The Governments of Venezuela and St Vincent and the Grenadines signed Wednesday the AgroAlba Memorandum of Understanding in Caracas. The multilateral initiative is an integration mechanism within The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) seeking to foster productive investment and strengthen food sovereignty […]

While leaders from the world over have congratulated Republican candidate Donald J. Trump on his electoral win on Tuesday which has earned him a second 4-year term at The Oval Office, Vice President Kamala Harris is yet to acknowledge defeat, as is customary in these cases. Perhaps Trump himself was the only one to break that tradition four years ago when […]

Photographer Ana María Arévalo Gosen returned to Venezuela after eight years away, and began to document her country’s decline through the prism of women in the penal systemI left Venezuela in 2009, and when I returned in 2017, it felt like stepping into a different world. Prices had rocketed, hope for a better future had faded, and the infrastructure […]

Leonard Francis also ordered to pay $20m restitution to the navy, after pleading guilty to bribery and fraudFormer military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of US navy officers, federal prosecutors said.Janis L Sammartino, the […]

Venezuelan and Iranian authorities announced this weekend the signing of an agreement to build a fiber optic factory in the South American country, more specifically in La Guaira, a State just 30 kilometers north of Caracas and home to the country's gateway Simón Bolívar Airport.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani for supporting an orderly transition from the Bolivarian regime, which intends to cling to power through a fraudulent vote count after the July 28 elections.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday accused Brazil's Foreign Ministry of being an agent at the service of the United States, which would explain his country not being admitted as an associate member of BRICS, unlike Cuba and Bolivia.