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16Jan

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USA, Venezuela

Pence Supports Unelected Politician’s Claim to be Venezuela’s ‘Acting President’

NOVANEWS By Steve Sweeney Morning Star Washington has moved to delegitimise democratically elected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with US Vice-President Mike Pence offering support to an opposition politician claiming to be the country’s real leader. In a phone call to National Assembly speaker Juan Guaido, Mr Pence praised his “courageous leadership” and called on him to unite all opposition groups against Mr Maduro. The National Assembly has no legitimate role in Venezuela since the establishment of the Constitutional Assembly, which was elected in August 2017 despite violent attacks from right-wing opposition groups seeking to stop people from voting. However, following Mr Maduro’s inauguration last week, the body declared Mr Guaido to be the country’s “acting presiden...

13Dec

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United Kingdom, Venezuela

Venezuela: The ''displacement'' of the tens of millions of Latin Americans

NOVANEWS To The Guardian: After the publication on Monday, 19 November of the article " ´Cages are more dignified´: Colombia brings cold comfort for Venezuelans", written from Bogotá by Joe Parkin Daniels, this Embassy calls on the editorial heads of the newspaper, since this article, along with others about Venezuelan emigration also published in recent days, presents biased considerations and notable simplifications and omissions, not providing readers with an objective idea of events in Venezuela. The other two articles are: "Venezuelan migrants live in shadows on Caribbean´s sunshine islands" (13 November, by Bram Ebus) and "US navy hospital ship stokes tensions by giving Venezuelan refugees free care" (18 November, also by Joe Par...

6Dec

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Russia, Venezuela

Venezuela: Eyes on modernized Russian weapons

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The Venezuelan Armed Forces are interested in the modernization of ground and air systems previously supplied by Russia, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said during talks his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in Moscow on Thursday. “Yesterday, when our presidents had talks, many issues in the military area had emerged, particularly those related to stepping up cooperation in the maintenance of the equipment supplied from Russia to our country. These are land-based and air systems. And we came to the conclusion that we need to modernize and upgrade the existing systems,” he stated. The Venezuelan defense chief noted that he came to Russia as part of the delegation led by President Nicolas Maduro, while the meeting with his Russian cou...

6Nov

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Venezuela

Venezuela: Communist Party Central Committee member assassinated

NOVANEWS Venezuelan Communist Party leader, Luís Fajardo, was killed on the evening of Wednesday 31 October, as he was returning home with his brother-in-law, Javier Aldana, who was also killed in the attack. Both men were riding a motorbike at 9pm when they were struck by a burst of gunfire from a moving vehicle. They were peasant activists and communist militants involved in the struggle for agrarian reform in the South of the Maracaibo Lake region and had already asked for protection as they had received death threats. Read this article in Spanish on Lucha de Clases Fajardo, 49, had been born in Portuguesa, but had lived in the Panamerican region across Mérida and Zulia, in the west of the country, for many years, where he had become one of the main peasant leaders. In 2001 he play...

21Aug

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Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro And The People

NOVANEWS By: Les Blough A toilet roll next to 2,600,000 bolivars, its price and the equivalent of US$0.40 at a mini-market in Caracas. | Photo: Reuters. For the empowered Venezuelans, their socialist ideology is part of their identity. It is what and who they are, writes Les Blough. In his article, 'Venezuela's Monetary Revolution Vis-a-Vis Economic Sanctions,' Nino Pagliccia reports on the new economic model based upon the petroleum-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, introduced in March of this year. The new initiative brings a series of economic measures to begin on August 20 with the circulation of a new currency, the Sovereign Bolivar (Bolivar Soberano, BsS). It should be understood that the BsS is not simply a matter of printing new bills, dropping zeros...

7Aug

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Venezuela’s Monetary Revolution Vis-à-vis Economic Sanctions

NOVANEWS By Nino Pagliccia Note to readers: please click the share buttons above Monetary revolution in Venezuela Venezuela has undergone many challenges in the last twenty years since Hugo Chavez was elected president and continued after his death in 2013. The main reason is that Venezuela has taken seriously the internationally recognized right to be sovereign and establish its own social model. Violence has never been part of the model. However, violence has been the reaction of those who do not want to change the status quo despite people’s majority democratic electoral choice. The new social model chosen by Venezuela has been widely called the Bolivarian Revolution. It is a revolution that is still under construction. In fact, having defused the rampant rightwing violenc...

4Aug

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Venezuela

Venezuela: Maduro blames 'ultra-right' & Colombia

NOVANEWS In post-attack speech, Venezuela's Maduro blames 'ultra-right' & Colombia © Miraflores Palace / Reuters Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, speaking shortly after an attempted attack during his Saturday public address, has said some of the perpetrators have already been captured. Maduro, without any sign of injury, delivered a televised address about two hours after his public speech at a military event was interrupted by loud explosions. Venezuelan officials said explosive drones were detonated near the president in a failed assassination attempt. Describing the incident, Maduro said a flying object exploded in front of him. Read more ‘It was assassination attempt’: Venezuelan President Maduro targeted with explosive drones (VIDEO) "I thought it was a pyrotechnic ...

23Jul

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Is Venezuela on the Verge of a Social Explosion?

NOVANEWS Marxist analyst Jorge Martin examines the causes, responses and solution to Venezuela’s current economic crisis. Demonstrators push police’s shields as they protest Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro near the attorney generals office in Caracas, Venezuela, July 18, 2018. The previous night, former presidential candidate and opposition leader Henrique Capriles called on the country’s political forces to reorganize in order to cope with the South American country’s hyperinflation, and lack of food and medicine. Fernando Llano | A By Jorge Martin The aggravation of the economic crisis is making life unbearable for working people in Venezuela. The destruction of the purchasing power of wages has been combined with the collapse of all basic infrastructure (water, electricit...

9Jul

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Venezuela’s Democratic Action Party Breaks from MUD as Opposition Fractures Deepen

NOVANEWS A lack of presidential primaries and internal tensions are believed to have brought about the schism. By Paul Dobson Venezuela’s opposition bloc – the MUD – has been battered by a number of key defections in recent months (Courtesy / La Patilla) Merida, July 9, 2018 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s largest opposition party, Democratic Action (AD), became the latest to split from the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) last week, throwing the right-wing anti-government coalition into further disarray. General secretary of the social democratic AD party and National Assembly deputy, Henry Ramos Allup, announced the decision Thursday citing “administrative” conflicts as well as a lack of action by the organization. “We have decided to separate ourselves f...

1Jul

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Venezuela Criticizes ‘Politicized’ UN Human Rights Report

NOVANEWS teleSUR The Venezuelan government has criticized a United Nations human rights report on the Latin American nation as “lacking technical rigour and objectivity.” “Venezuela categorically rejects the report regarding the alleged human rights situation in the country, published by the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as a result of a highly questionable methodology that buries the credibility and technical rigor demanded of an office of this nature, and violates the principles of objectivity, impartiality and non-selectivity,” a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Relations said. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Jordanian prince, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, said Friday that “rule of law is virtually absent in Venezuela,” after a report was...