The US ratifies the recognition of the extension of the validity of Venezuelan passports for a period of five years, announces embassy of @jguaido in the US
"We're ready. We're on the balls of our feet" per @Southcom Adm Faller, emphasizing effort primarily economic, diplomatic though all options remains on the table "The planning that we're doing is focused on the day after when a legitimate government is in place"
Venezuela's Maduro being "propped up by Cuba Russia & to some extent, a lesser extent China" per @Southcom's Adm Faller "Nearly 100% of the presidential guard is Cubans. There are thousands of Cubans & hundreds of Russians" forces backing Maduro, Faller adds
"We see [President Nicolas] Maduro being increasingly isolated" @Southcom Cmdr Adm Craig Faller tells reporters "The isolation is working" he says "The US government's objective of seeing a democratic transition to a legitimate interim democratic government is working"
President of the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi: "It is clear that Maduro must leave"
2 week agoAragua: Another police officer also from Carabobo and a civilian were injured in the exchange of gunfire
2 week agoMaduro proposes to install school chicken coops to reduce the food crisis
Guaidó: Cessation of usurpation, transitional government and free elections is not a slogan, but a constructed route ratified by Parliament
4.00pm: New electric blackout in 10 states of Venezuela and the capital district. Affected States: Aragua, Barinas, Carabobo, Caracas, Falcon, Merida, Miranda, Lara, Trujillo, Vargas, Yaracuy, Zulia
Second electricity blackout in Caracas and several states in the east country
2 week agoConfirmed: Power outage in multiple states of Venezuela; network data show drop in connectivity in Zulia Miranda Carabobo Lara Táchira Barinas and others, also impacting Caracas; incident ongoing
3 week agoCaracas: Protest of National Police officials and neighbors who reject the protest are grouped in the Plaza Alí Primera
3 week agoMaduro: Our older sister, the People's Republic of China, sees this 21st century as the economic and technological power of the entire world. 70 years after the Republic was founded, it has turned history around
Two police officers were killed in Charallave: their belongings were not stolen
Remigio Ceballos(Strategic Command Operations of Venezuela): We have detected more than 54 US aircraft doing reconnaissance in Venezuelan territory
3 week agoNicolas Maduro has announced the signing of "important agreements" between Venezuela and North Korea during Diosdado Cabellos trip to North Korea where he met with Choe Ryong Hae who is a senior North Korean official
3 week agoDelcy Rodríguez at the UN: "Paramilitaries have been trained to kill Venezuelan authorities and Colombia's response has been to protect these mercenaries"
Delcy Rodríguez from the UN General Assembly: US and Colombia seek to attack Venezuela
3 week agoDelcy Rodríguez: "Cuba will never give up, they have been resisting the blockade for more than five decades"
3 week agoConfirmed: Multiple power outages across Venezuela; network data show loss of electricity and internet connectivity in four distinct stages beginning 1:30 p.m. UTC (9:30 a.m. local time); incidents ongoing
3 week agoPresident of Colombia @IvanDuque says that @NicolasMaduro protects armed groups in Venezuela and that this country has become a sanctuary for guerrilla leaders.
3 week agoPortuguesa: An explosion of electric transformers generates two medium-sized fires in the Guanarito municipality
3 week agoToday, @VOANoticias launching 'Venezuela 360' - a 30-minute weekly multimedia current affairs program, which includes an interactive segment designed to engage audiences in Venezuela
3 week ago@IvanDuque: The creation of an independent international mission, by the UN, to investigate human rights violations in Venezuela, is a strong message that we hope will materialize in sanctions against the dictator Maduro
Julio Borges on EU sanctions: Sanctions show that international pressure will continue until we have freedom in Venezuela
3 week agoHRC42 Council adopts with 19 Y, 7 N, 21 Abst. res. on the situation of humanrights in Venezuela, strongly condemns all violations & abuses of intl. human rights law in Venezuela & urges its authorities to immediately release all political prisoners & others arbitrarily
EU: Ready to impose more economic sanctions on officials close to Maduro to accelerate change in Venezuela
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3 week agoMaduro: "If the Oslo dialogue initiative is reactivated, we are prepared to take on it immediately. All doors are open for political dialogue"
