Bolton: After diverting aid needed badly by Venezuelans to Cuba last week (100 tons), and giving away billions of the Venezuelan people's wealth to Cuba - Maduro seeks aid from Cuba and China. All while denying the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis and rejecting aid at the border.
Maduro's Supreme Tribunal of Justice declares null and void appointments of the directors of Citgo and PDVSA
1 year agoConstitutional Chamber of the TSJ: Constitutes another assault on the rule of law by the National Assembly, a body that is in contempt and whose acts are absolutely null.
Russian oil producer Lukoil's trading arm Litasco has stopped carrying out swap operations with Venezuela since US sanctions were imposed on the Latin American country's state oil company in January
Maduro's MFA Arreaza at United Nations: Venezuela will respond proportionally to any type of attack against the country
Constituent Prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, states that humanitarian aid expected from Colombia is a show and military intervention
1 year agoVenezuela MFA @jaarreaza: We believe that the principles of the Charter of the United Nations are being violated, we all have the right to live without being threatened
1 year ago[email protected]: In Venezuela there is only one government, that of the president @NicolasMaduro, not that of a man who proclaimed himself in the middle of a street, whatever he says is totally absurd and illegal
Venezuela foreign minister flanked by Ambassadors from Russia, Iran, Syria and China announces formation of group of countries to defend and protect "sovereignty" of nations
A Venezuela judge in exile at a conference in Washington has invoked the UN's doctrine of Responsibility to Protect as the legal framework for international involvement
1 year agoUN ambassadors of Russia, Syria, Iran, China, NK, Nicaragua, Palestinian observer, and ForMin of Venezuela preparing to brief the press
US Secretary of State: Iran supports Hezbollah and its activities in South America
Carlos Vecchio, ambassador of Venezuela in the U.S: "The drama that is taking place in Venezuela affects all Venezuelans regardless of their social status"
Report blackout in several areas of the Greater Caracas
1 year agoVenezuelan Ambassador to the US, Carlos Vecchio, @carlosvecchio, from the OAS: "The reason for our struggle is none other than to stop the suffering and pain of our people"
1 year agoElliott Abrams: "Maduro regime has won a lot of money in the last decades of things like drug trafficking, we must persecute them."
1 year agoJoint statement by President Trump and Colombian President Duque: "The United States and Colombia are committed to taking steps to resolve the ongoing democratic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela."
1 year agoElliott Abrams (@Elliott_Abrams), in charge of the United States for the crisis in Venezuela: "We have heard figures of 40,000 Cuban soldiers in Venezuela."
Italian Parliament voted a resolution that says: 1. Maduro is not the legitimate President of Venezuela. 2. National Assembly has the legitimacy. 3. Free and fair elections must to take place.
Man who threw a Molotov bomb in Ocumare del Tuy fled
"We talk in depth about the crisis in Venezuela, the urgent need for humanitarian aid to enter, Colombia reiterates that it will continue to be territory for the arrival of such aid to the neighboring country": @IvanDuque
[email protected]: "The health emergency surrounds Anzoategui: nine dead by amoebiasis, the water has presence of bacteria that reveal the contamination of the water"
1 year agoNational Assembly Deputy Rafael Veloz (@RafaelVeloz): Juan Guaidó (@Jguaido) must promote an emergency employment plan so that everyone has access to decent and fair work.
National Assembly will discuss the health crisis that continues to claim lives in Venezuela
US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams estimates "multiple thousands" of Cuban officials in Venezuela, focused in part on intimidation and espionage. Tells Congress, Maduro "doesn't trust his own people."
Maduro makes "terrible mistake" in blocking Venezuela aid, says Trump
Trump says that the situation in Venezuela is "very sad" and that he studies "all the options" on the "crisis" in that country
1 year ago[email protected]: In our meeting with the legitimate Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States @carlosvecchio, we reiterate Colombia's commitment to continue supporting the Venezuelans working to get humanitarian aid.
Abrams says they "hearing a lot of discontent from the military" in Venezuela. "We think this opinion is spreading within the military, that the current situation is untenable."
HFAC chair @RepEliotEngel is urging Trump admin to extend temporary protected status to Venezuelans in the US. Abrams says he'll be talking with @SecPompeo about this issue when Pompeo returns from Europe
