The presence of non-state armed groups and criminal groups has increased violence in Venezuela, especially on the border with Colombia and in the mining regions, with hundreds of Venezuelans forcibly displaced. - Denounced by the UN and Bachelet
2 year agoFANB fighting drug traffickers in Zulia
Maduro: We are preparing a plan for May 1 that will restore the purchasing power of retirees.
Firefighters report the death of 4 Dgcim agents and serious injuries in another as a result of an accident on Bella Vista Avenue in Maturín, Monday 2:30 a.m. The troops were in a gray Tahoe, of which they did not give more details. The injured man was taken to the Núñez Tovar hospital.
2 year agoCaracas Fire: Fire in structure in La Pastora controlled. And teams working on cooling tasks
2 year agoAragua: structure fire on av. Intercommunal. @bomberos_de_aragua on the site
Colombia: Diego Molano assured that armed groups "subcontract criminals in Venezuela" for attacks
The mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, asked the Venezuelan government to "identify, capture and extradite" any rebel from the dissident Front 33 involved in the murder of minors after the recent attack with explosives 29Mar
Ambassador Carlos Vecchio: "Interim President Guaidó believes that a negotiated solution to the crisis is urgent and necessary. Any possibility of lifting the sanctions must be linked to concrete and irreversible steps towards the democratization of Venezuela"
Ambassador Carlos Vecchio: As ambassador of the interim government of President Juan Guaidó in the US, I must categorically reject the abandonment of the struggle of Venezuelans to favor the private economic interests of US companies
2 year agoA CICPC investigation into the killings found that members of the Venezuelan Air Force fired around 70 rounds from their AK-103s that killed 4 indigenous Yanomami and injured 6 more
2 year agoMembers of the Yanomami tribe in Amazonas confronting a military commander and DGCIM officers sent to the area after 4 members of the tribe were shot and killed by Venezuelan military personnel
The bodies of Margian and Fredmar were burned and left in a garbage dump in the Intercomunal Barquisimeto-Acarigua on January 3. A coat and a rosary served for relatives to identify the victims
2 year agoPresident Biden announces plans to designate Colombia a major non-NATO ally in meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque
Unlikely US with be importing oil from Venezuela at this point, said @PressSec. She said focus of US engagement with Maduro is to bring American citizens home
The White House says two American detainees have been released by the Venezuelan government, including Gustavo Cardenas, an oil executive who had been jailed since 2017
Venezuelan President Maduro said his government will restart talks with the opposition after he met with senior U.S. officials who are considering lifting oil sanctions on Caracas as energy prices surge because of war in Ukraine
US delegation traveled to Venezuela and spoke about energy with the Maduro government - White House
Senior US officials heading to Venezuela for talks with Maduros government. As sanctions on Russia intensify its possible the US will look to use Venezuelan oil as a substitute for Russian oil
Some governments in the region such as those of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua support Russian President Putin despite the invasion and Crisis in Ukraine. Others, while condemning the aggression, stand by when the world puts pressure on Russia
Regions of Venezuela: Two dead and two injured after helicopter accident in Lara state.
2 year agoDefense Minister Gantz reveals a photo that he says proves Iran has transferred to Venezuela the know-how for it to produce advanced UAVs. "Our assessments show that Iranian PGMs are being delivered for these UAVs and other similar models," he says
The older adults detained in Vargas for protesting claimed not to have committed any crime
2 year agoJuan Guaidó, president of the AN elected in 2015, announced that he will denounce Trinidad and Tobago for mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants, after the shooting death of a child who was traveling with his mother to that Caribbean country.
For protesting against the Maduro government, two elderly people were deprived of their liberty by the First Court of Control of the Vargas state on February 14
2 year agoPresident Maduro describes as serious plans of the Argentine army to invade Venezuela
Leaked documents from the Argentine Armed Forces revealed that the former president of that nation, Mauricio Macri, undertook to invade Venezuela using his country's military, in an alleged US-led operation.
2 year agoVenezuela has demanded Trinidad and Tobago launch an "exhaustive investigation" into a deadly incident at sea, in which a baby perished and his mother wounded on board a boat carrying about 40 migrants
Maduro: "The reform that was made in the National Assembly is to charge more to those who have the most, to the millionaires. That little money has a very good effect for the strengthening of the bolivar"
TRINIDAD: The fatal shooting took place as officers tried to stop a boat crossing the Venezuelan border into Trinidad and Tobago, in what the island nation's officials described as an act of self-defence, according to a Coast Guard statement
