John Bolton: In his desperation to hide the truth, Maduro cut the broadcast of open stations, turned off community radio stations and blocked access to the Internet.
PDVSA exported 1.06 mln bpd of crude, products last month, an 8-pct increase vs March boosted by larger deliveries to China. It continued exporting to Cuba and it also imported almost 1 mm bbl of Nigeria's Agbami crude for diluting its oil
3 week ago@SecPompeo says it is "morally correct" not to rule out the use of American military force in Venezuela if all other options fail.
Maduro: "It's time for a rectification, we're going to cut off the head of anyone who has to be cut"
John Bolton:Maduro is undermining the Constitution and territorial integrity of Venezuela by allowing foreign countries to arm 'colectivos' and repress innocent Venezuelans. The Venezuela military's role in Venezuela's transition to democracy is vital – it must protect the people of Venezuela.
Maduro calls for the union of the Armed Forces, "we would firmly face any intervention by the United States and I am sure we would win"
3 week agoMiranda: Demonstrators return at Redoma of San Antonio de los Altos
Leopoldo López: I think it is a matter of weeks before the cessation of the usurpation. 2May
Leopoldo López: The coalition in favor of freedom in Venezuela is the largest of recent times, and the concrete goal in which we all agree is free elections in Venezuela. We do not want to impose a de facto government. What is to be achieved is a free choice.
[email protected] "For 3 weeks I had meetings in my house with commanders and generals".
Leopoldo López: I thank the government of @sanchezcastejon and the Spaniards who have been very supportive of Venezuela
Leopoldo López: At the dawn of April 30th I received a pardon from the President @jguaido.
Spain warns that it will not deliver Leopoldo López
3 week ago@CarlosHolmesTru: On instructions from the President @IvanDuque and on behalf of Colombia, tomorrow I will make strong proposals at the meeting of the Lima Group.
Venezuela calls on US to protect its embassy in Washington, says foreign minister
OAS urges extraregional powers to refrain from supporting Maduro
3 week agoCaracas: Citizens return to take the streets of Altamira this Thursday.
Three protesters arested outside the embassy of Venezuela during a confrontation as Code Pink protesters attempted to throw food and supplies onto a landing outside an embassy door. Two of the detained are Code Pink folks, one from the Venezuelan pro-opposition group. DC
3 week agoCaracas Court issues arrest warrant against @leopoldolopez who is in the residence of the Ambassador of Spain in Caracas.
3 week agoVenezuela Supreme Court in exile requested the international community to apply the R2P and stop the genocide in Venezuela through an international military coalition on a peace mission.
Code Pink is holding a press conference at noon about their inability to transport food and medicine into the Venezuela embassy in DC where 50ish protesters have been living. They say pro-opposition protesters are blocking the enterances and exits, while police stand back.
US official: meeting next week between US and Russian foreign ministers in Finland to discuss the Venezuelan crisis
Trump condemns brutal crackdown against the Venezuelan people: It must end
OAS Meeting. US Representative: We are aware of Russia's intentions of increasing its presence in Venezuela's security systems
3 week agoAt NationalDayOfPrayer event, @POTUS begins by sending prayers to the people of Venezuela, adding "it must end soon.and we are there to help."
Russia's FM says phone call with US Secretary of State Pompeo about Venezuela had elements of the surreal
Meeting of The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) begins, to discus presence of Cuba and Russia in Venezuela
Russia will create a group of countries to counter military intervention in Venezuela, it is already being formed in the UN - Lavrov
Caracas: 14-year-old Yoifre Jesus Hernández Vásquez has succumbed of his wounds in the Ávila clinic after being shot in Altamira during the protest on 1st May
Confirmed death of a second injured in Altamira: Identified as Yoifre Jesús Hernández Vasquez
3 week agoMaduro marched this Thursday at dawn with the FANB in Fort Tiuna
Maduro stars a military march that aims to reach the Ministry of Defense from Fort Tiuna
AFP: More than 60 thousand Venezuelans have entered Brazil so far in 2019.
3 week agoMaduro: Yes we are in the battle. Maximum moral in this battle to disarm any traitor, any couper.
3 week agoMaduro appears on the national TV at 6 am this 2May together with Vladimir Padrino López and Remigio Ceballos at Fort Tiuna. "The FANB has to show itself before the united, cohesive people," he says from the courtyard of the Military Academy.
Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu on developments in Venezuela: We are against violence, military intervention. Problems can be solved through dialogue and cooperation
[email protected] from Fort Tiuna: Before the world and before our people our FANB has to give a historical lesson at this time.
Julio Borges asked Germany to lead the final action of Europe against Maduro
3 week agoRally at embassy of Venezuela in DC
3 week agoTáchira, San Cristobal: Moments in which the National Guard launches tear gas bombs in the Church Fatima of Barrio Sucre
Tense situation in El Cafetal de Caracas sector. Officials of the FAES demolished entrance of Guarico Alcabalas from avenue Principal of Las Mercedes
3 week agoJurubith Rausseo Garcia Betzabeth, 27, was shot in the skull with firearm, and was transferred to Clinica el Avila. She died tonight at 8PM
3 week agoNight protest in San Antonio de Los Altos
[email protected]: I am continuing to monitor the situation in Venezuela very closely. The United States stands with the People of Venezuela and their Freedom.
3 week agoChrystia Freeland:Canada commends the courage of Venezuelans demonstrating their desire for a return to democracy. It is time for the Maduro government to step aside and allow for a peaceful end to this crisis.
3 week agoJuan Guaidó: 397 demonstrations throughout Venezuela, 97 rally points, 23 of them brutally repressed, 32 detainees and 25 wounded. We are facing a government that lost control. The more we are on the streets, the closer we are
3 week agoOfficials leaving the vicinity of the Miraflores Palace, during a speech of Maduro. Video courtesy: @DiarioTalCual
U.S. Acting Sec. Def.: Not surprising that China, Russia, Cuba, and Iran recognize Nicolás Maduro as his is an issue of freedom vs. tyranny. Echoing @POTUS, we're considering all options in support of the Venezuelan people.
Acting SecDef Shanahan: A free and stable Venezuela is a U.S. national security priority. Juan Guaidó is the legitimate leader of Venezuela, officially recognized by 54 countries around the world. It is not surprising that China, Russia, Cuba, and Iran recognize Maduro.
3 week agoNational Guard attacks demonstrators protesting in the San Antonio de los Altos, throws tear gas bombs
3 week agoGuaidó-appointed ambassador Carlos Vecchio has arrived on the steps of the Venezuela embassy here in DC to a booming rendition of the Venezuelan national anthem by the dozens of pro-opposition demonstrators gathered here.
3 week agoVenezuelan Red Cross takes a wounded man to the Chacao Health Center. There are already 41 people attended at the health center on the afternoon of this 1May.
Maduro: Today Pompeo saying that I was on the plane to leave and the Russians pushed me out. Let me tell you that you were deceived.
Maduro: Could it be that the road to dialogue has ended? Is it that we are going to a civil war to see who has more weapons? That is what the opposition and imperialism want.
Maduro: "My hand won't shake when Justice orders to put behind the bars the authors of this coup d'etat."
Maduro: "I think there was a lot of nerve in the US yesterday, I was reading as in the White House itself was Donald Trump's advisor, John Bolton, coordinating the actions of the coup, calling the government of Colombia, of Chile and Argentina "
3 week agoReport of heavy crackdown and arbitrary detentions in several points of Maracay, Aragua. In San Jacinto there would have been 5 arrests Photos @Borolaki
3 week agoProtesters burn building of the Mayorship of Iribarren in Lara. Allegedly there were pro-Maduro militiamen inside the property
3 week agoApure: Several wounded and arrested during crackdown reported on the march held in San Fernando
3 week agoMoment in which the journalist @GregJaimes was injured in demonstration in Altamira (via @hugormarin)
3 week agoJournalist @GregJaimes was wounded in the face and in the hand.
3 week agoPNB(National Police) seriously wounded the journalist @GregJaimes, was attacked at point-blank range
3 week agoCrackdown against the demonstrators in Altamira intensifies. At least three journalists wounded
3 week agoContinued clashes between National Guard and anti-Maduro protesters in Altamira, Caracas.
3 week agoRussian Air Force Il-76 RA-78840 flying south via Italy
3 week agoPortuguesa: today 1May again on the street demonstrating the absolute conviction of change and support to achieve the cessation of the usurpation
National Guard troopers violently detaining protesters at Altamira
3 week agoGuaidó supporters demand US authorities let them seize the embassy while @codepink activists stand inside holding signs that read "NO COUP"
3 week ago27 injured in Chacao after the police crackdown against demonstrators asking for Maduro departure. Information from the mayor Gustavo Duque
3 week agoWater cannon deployed to Altamira interchange, to disperse the protesters.
3 week agoJudge of the Venezuela Supreme Court Marisela Godoy withdrew from the full room because that the decision "to be adopted today by this high body is unknown. And in the same situation are the judges who also have no knowledge of their content "
3 week ago[email protected] from the Santa Fe interchange: Yesterday was not a coup, but a civic rebellion
SOUTHCOM is monitoring the situation in Venezuela and remains prepared to support all options when requested by senior leadership. We are working with partners in the region, and are in full support of the diplomatic effort for a peaceful, democratic transition of power in Venezuela.
3 week agoAnother protester injured in clashes at Altamira
Strong bursts of gunfire at La Carlota, paramedics attend to a wounded man.
3 week agoUS Ambassador to the OAS: @USAmbOAS: There are thousands of Cuban officials in Venezuela and Russian officials. President Maduro was willing to go to Havana and the Russians demanded that he stay in Venezuela.
U.S. has done 'exhaustive planning' on Venezuela scenarios: Shanahan
[email protected]: Our camera assistant Rubén Brito, was shot in the arm while covering the demonstration in the Altamira Interchange in the area of La Carlota. National Guard troops shot at members of the press
3 week agoCaracas: Protesters withdraw after prolonged bursts from La Carlota
3 week agoNational Guard (GNB), wounds the photographer JhonFQ with pellet shots in the Altamira Interchange of the Francisco Fajardo Caracas highway.
Diosdado Cabello: "Vladimir Padrino López is an integral patriot, they would like to have in their ranks someone like him"
3 week agoTrucks brought APCs to Bolivar center
Elliott Abrams, US special representative for Venezuela on Padrino López, Maikel Moreno and Hernández Dala: "They talked, talked and talked and when the time came for the action they were not willing to do it".
3 week agoStrong repression in Washington Square in El Paraiso by the GNB. People stayed in the street despite the tear gas and pellets
3 week agoTáchira: The march in San Cristóbal on Carabobo Avenue
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3 week agoVargas: Protesters are gathered in El Cónsul square in Maiquetía reiterating the right to peaceful protest. A police contingent is located on Soublette Avenue
3 week agoActing president @jguaido "we will insist until we achieve our objectives, the cessation of usurpation, transitional government and free elections"
Acting President @jguaido at the Unicentro El Marqués: Of course we talk to the military. But we are all going to talk to them. Starting tomorrow all with a blue band.
3 week agoNational Guard shoots tear gas from La Carlota air base. A group of citizens remains in the vicinity of the Altamira Interchange while other protesters remain in Plaza Francia de Altamira
3 week ago[email protected] from the Unicentro El Marqués: "The call is to you, the Venezuelans, the process of freedom has already begun, the government did not imagine that we would do it"
3 week agoCaracas: In the Chiquinquirá church,the pastor Luis Antonio, received with a blessing the people who come from different parishes of the Libertador and Chacao municipalities this 1May on the occasion of Operation Libertad
