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Venezuela Watch- Captured two Colombian citizens involved in assassination attempts against President Maduro

NOVANEWS The Minister for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, reported Monday that two Colombian citizens involved in assassination attempts against President Nicolas Maduro were captured.At a press conference, broadcast by state media, Rodriguez Torres said that after the investigations conducted by the security forces of the Venezuelan state, last August 15, two subjects who formed a destabilizing group were captured. Such group consists of 10 individuals: Victor Johan Gueche Mosquera, 22 years old, and Erick Leonardo Huertas Rios, 18, who entered the country on August 13 through San Antonio del Tachira. "We found their location on August 15 and captured them in the hotel Guaracarumbo, on the Pan American Highway, which travels through the state of Aragua and M...
Palestine Affairs, Venezuela

Venezuela to sell oil at ‘fair price’ to Palestinians

NOVANEWS news.yahoo.com Venezuela and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority on Saturday signed agreements which include deals to sell oil to the occupied territories at a “fair price,” Caracas said. The accords were inked following a meeting between Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua and his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Malki. “It is an agreement of cooperation and solidarity with our oil industry… a sale of fuel at a fair price,” Jaua said at a press conference. The agreement also guarantees “favorable” repayment terms as well as training of Palestinians on handling and distribution of oil. Malki, who is on a tour of Latin America, said he was “extremely satisfied” with the agreement. OPEC member Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves and produces up to three m...
Egypt, Venezuela

Venezuela withdraws ambassador from Egypt

NOVANEWS Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro The Venezuelan president condemned the violence in Egypt and urged the restoration of constitutional order in the country. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has withdrawn his ambassador from Cairo and called for the reinstatement of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi. Maduro announced the decision on Friday, saying the United States and Israel were behind Morsi's ouster last month. “We have witnessed a blood bath in Egypt...We warned that the coup against Morsi was unconstitutional. Morsi was kidnapped and the responsible party for what is occurring in Egypt is the empire, which has its hands in it," he said. "The United States doesn't have friends, it has interests, and what it wants is to control the planet,” Maduro added. The Ve...
Venezuela

Venezuela's Supreme Court Rules Capriles' Appeal Against 14 April Electoral Results “Inadmissible”

NOVANEWS   By RYAN MALLETT-OUTTRIM Mérida, 8th August 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) has rejected an appeal against the 14 April presidential election results from opposition leader Henrique Capriles, citing a failure to provide “sufficient proof”. Yesterday afternoon, Magistrate Gladys Gutierrez announced that the court had reached a unanimous decision following a “detailed study” of the case brought to the TSJ by Capriles, the MUD opposition coalition, and others. Running as the MUD candidate, Capriles narrowly lost the 14 April presidential election to socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro. Describing the opposition's case as a “shame”, that “trivialises democratic debate”, Gutierrez argued that not only did the opposition lack suffici...
Venezuela

Bay of Pigs redux: Caracas claims CIA-linked Cuban exiles planned to kill president

NOVANEWS rt.com Venezuelan officials warned of an alleged plot to assassinate the country’s President and launch a paramilitary invasion of the country. A former CIA agent, Cuban exiles living in the US and Latin American leaders were fingered in the conspiracy President Nicolas Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chavez, first alleged that his enemies want him dead while on the campaign trail in April. The suspected plot to overthrow the government in Caracas was allegedly funded by Cuban exiles living in Miami, the head of the Venezuela’s parliament Diosdado Cabello told legislators on Wednesday. They raised some $2.5 million and recruited about 400 mercenaries, who would enter Venezuela’s Zulia state from Columbia as part of the plan. He pointed to former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and f...
USA, Venezuela

Why Did Washington Hate Hugo Chavez?

NOVANEWS An Interview with Author and Revolutionary Eva Golinger by MIKE WHITNEY Eva Golinger, winner of the International Award for Journalism in Mexico (2009), named “La Novia de Venezuela” by President Hugo Chávez, is an Attorney and Writer from New York, living in Caracas, Venezuela since 2005 and author of the best-selling books, “The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela” (2006 Olive Branch Press), “Bush vs. Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela” (2007, Monthly Review Press), “The Empire’s Web: Encyclopedia of Interventionism and Subversion”, “La Mirada del Imperio sobre el 4F: Los Documentos Desclasificados de Washington sobre la rebelión militar del 4 de febrero de 1992” and “La Agresión Permanente: USAID, NED y CIA”. Since 2003, Eva, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence Co...
USA, Venezuela

Edward Snowden Safely Lands In Venezuela Where He Was Granted Asylum To Avoid U.S. Extradition

NOVANEWS The Al Jazeera news agency is reporting that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has safely landed in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had offered asylum to the former U.S. intelligence contractor on Friday who was believed to be waiting in transit at a Moscow airport. Photo: Press TV Press Release ***Editors Note: Intellihub.com has not yet been able to verify this press release, but can confirm that it has been posted a number of places and seems to have originated here, as of now this press release has not been picked up by any mainstream media sources. Guillermo Thomas who is a spokesman for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela told aljazeera.com that Snowden is currently in the country and that he is thrilled to be there. “We are very blessed to have Mr....
USA, Venezuela

Venezuela Leader Claims CIA Behind Morales Plane Incident

NOVANEWS Venezuela Leader Claims CIA Behind Morales Plane Incident © AFP 2013/ Patrick Domingo MOSCOW, July 6 (RIA Novosti) - The recent decision by a number of European countries to close their airspace to Bolivian President Evo Morales’s plane was made on an order from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), media quoted the Venezuelan president as saying. “A very important minister told us that it was the CIA that contacted the authorities of Portugal, Italy and France to have their airspace closed to President Morales,” President Nicolas Maduro was quoted as saying by Venezuelan national news agency AVN. Bolivia accused France, Italy, Spain and Portugal of violating international law after a plane carrying Morales was diverted Tuesday and searched Wednesday over suspicio...
Venezuela

The War on the Venezuelan Economy

NOVANEWS http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_65743.shtml 400 tons of hoarded food seized on June 18Many people prefer to believe opposition claims that it is government mismanagement and policy causing shortages but in this report we publish actual photos taken on June 18th in Tachira state where 400 tons of basic foods were found hoarded in a secret warehouse in the city of San Cristobal. 5,000 kilos (5½ tons) of sugar found in another raid, hidden in an opposition house in Caracas. The products discovered were 195 tons of rice, one ton of ground coffee, 4,000 liters of cooking oil plus sugar, black beans, toilet rolls, canned sardines and tuna, lentils, peas, oats, mayonnaise, tomato sauce and serviettes. All foods sold at regulated process. The discovery was made...
Venezuela

Irregular groups attack the Central University of Venezuela

NOVANEWS http://www.albatv.org/Grupos-irregulares-atacan-la.html More than 50 masked men attacked, on Wednesday, the Central University of Venezuela, UCV, Caracas, the capital, where they fired guns and burned three vehicles, including two buses.According to the Minister of the Popular power for Interior, Justicia y Paz, Miguel Rodríguez Torres, the assailants, after entering the University "burned three vehicles within these facilities, using hoods, motorcycle without plates, causing fear and terror in that House of study".Attackers seek to provoke the Venezuelan security forces, but they don't know that the Venezuelan State is supporter of the dialogue, and human rights, said the Minister. "We know that behind all this there is a plan to try to destabilise and break the stability ...