Tag: Venezuelan

NOVANEWS By Ben Norton Grayzone Project The vast majority of Venezuelans oppose military intervention and US sanctions to try to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power, according to polling by the local firm Hinterlaces. *** More than eight out of ten Venezuelans oppose international intervention, both military and non-military, in their country, as well as the crippling sanctions imposed by the United States to force leftist President Nicolás Maduro out of power. According to a study conducted in early January 2019 by the local polling firm Hinterlaces, 86 percent of Venezuelans would disagree with international military intervention. And 81 percent oppose the US sanctions that have gravely hurt the South American nation’s economy. This poll was conducted before the Donald Tr...

NOVANEWS Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meets with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexandr Lukashenko. | Photo: Twitter @PresidencialVen. Maduro inaugurated a monument to Simon Bolivar, in the park that bears the name of the hero of Latin American independence. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with the President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, during which they spoke with the aim of strengthening bilateral ties between their countries and discussing the international situation. RELATED: Maduro and Putin Agree to Strengthen Cooperation at Talks in Moscow Maduro affirmed to his Belarusian counterpart that the development of a multi-polar world based on peaceful international relations is at the center of the Bolivarian ...

NOVANEWS By: Mision Verdad Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. | Photo: Reuters The president of the National Constituent Assembly rightly said that the Jordanian prince "endorses the violence of the Venezuelan right against the people." Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the Jordanian prince in charge of U.N. human rights issues, again poisons the Venezuelan situation to give a further respite to the agenda of intervention against the country. RELATED: Venezuela Delivers 10.4 Tons of Aid to Earthquake-Ravaged Mexico In tune with Luis Almagro's troupe at the Organization of American States, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, currently the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, uses his current position in the multilateral organization as an international pivot i...

NOVANEWS Opposition supporters set up a burning barricade at a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, May 20, 2017. | Photo: Reuters Orlando Jose Figuera suffered burns on 80 percent of his body in a heinous attack the government has dubbed a hate crime. The Venezuelan youth who was beaten and set on fire by violent anti-government protesters in Caracas two weeks ago has died from his injuries, government officials reported Saturday night. RELATED: Understanding Protest Deaths in Venezuela Orlando Jose Figuera was burned alive on May 20 in Caracas’ Altamira neighborhood, one of the capital’s affluent areas, after opposition protesters suspected that the 21-year-old Black man was a government supporter. Venezuela's Minister of Communication and Information...