After a journey that began in Cadiz, Spain, Aug. 20, Patrolman ocean Warao (PC-22), arrived at the naval base cabinet Admiral Augustine, chief of the Venezuelan Navy, located in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state. The Warao was presented on August 2 at the Navantia shipyard in Puerto Real, Cadiz in the bay. This is the second ship of the type Avante 2400, the four Spanish state-owned building, commissioned by the Venezuelan government. Read Article
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La Compania Anonima Nacional de Industrias Militares (Cavim) developed the Catatumbo sniper rifle to be used by special elements of snipers in a war of resistance. The gun is presented in three versions manufactured by the caliber: 7.62 x 39 mm, 7.62 mm and 7.62 x 51 x 54 mm, locally produced. Read Article
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Iran is considering anti-aircraft missile systems to receive long-range S-300 through Venezuela, in the case of an unsuccessful legal claim to a Russian supplies directly. This was stated at a press conference Sajadi Mahmud, the Iranian ambassador in Moscow, according to reviewed by Russian news agencies.Read Article
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After the collapse(landslide)that occurred on Friday at mile 13, between Choroní and Maracay in Aragua state, over a thousand vacationers were evacuated Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, to the port of Puerto Cabello, through a humanitarian operation conducted by the Integrated Area Defence Operations North Carabobo (ZODIO). One thousand 62 tourists boarded the three boats […]
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Hugo Chavez has met with the Russian Foreign Minister and promised to personally visit Russia in the nearest future to seal more contracts, purchase weapons, and maybe a fur hat to counter the winter frost. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which was the last – and […]
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What Shell is This? Opinion/Analysis piece from Venezuelan press With this “vernacular” expression of alarm and rejection, full cover and the “mere male” a few years ago a popular evening newspaper of national circulation expressed overly upset by their proprietor and editor at the announcement of a raise of military, making negative news the fact […]
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Venezuelans have become much more wary, distrustful of the police, and are more likely to take justice into their own hands as a result of the rise of criminality being experienced by the country, said Wednesday the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence in annual report. The NGO noted that the number of homicides in Venezuela continues […]
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French sailing assault and injure one of its crew in Venezuela Five armed men hijacked a French yacht moored in the tourist island of Margarita, in northeastern Venezuela and injured one of his two crewmen, said on Wednesday told AFP the commander of a water rescue organization. “We got the call for help by a […]
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Peace in the so-called island of pearls came to an end long ago. In the first half of 2011, 1225 crimes were reported, including counted the murder of four foreign tourists in several robberies. The figures offered them the Body of Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC) of Nueva Esparta. Crime affects not only foreigners […]
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Venezuela repatriate its gold reserves from abroad by air “as quickly as possible,” although there is still no definite date to start the process because it just is developing a protocol to follow, said Sunday the president of the Central Bank (BCV ).”We will bring the reserves as quickly as possible. I can not say […]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he plans to give the government exclusive control over the nation’s gold mining industry to boost the country’s international reserves. Speaking on state television Wednesday, President Chavez said he will issue a decree in the coming days to nationalize operations currently under the control of private and foreign companies. Read […]
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The rating agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded Venezuela’s credit rating, citing the country’s political risk as a key weakness. S&P lowered the country’s sovereign currency rating once notch Friday from BB¯ to B+ with a stable outlook. Read Article
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From Parque Carabobo, Caracas, the head of the highest court said they are “firm, with more strength every day. Each day we will be more and more resolutely keeping the Venezuelan institutions, defending the public powers and carrying out our Constitution”. Read Article
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President of Argentina, Crisitina Fernandez de Kirchner was congratulated by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez after her near landslide victory in the primary elections yesterday, according to cronica.com. Chávez returned to Venezuela this weekend after receiving chemotherapy in Cuba, and sent greetings to Kirchner over his Twitter account. He wrote, “@ CFKArgentina Bravo dear Cristina! Bravo! […]
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The trade surplus for all of Latin America with the United States went up 2.9% in June, according to abc.com.py. The total trade surplus for the first six months of 2011 totaled $38.644 million compared to $35.830 million last year, but not all countries experienced a gain. Mexico’s trade surplus increased from $32.884 million for […]
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•The Colombian army has captured ELN members alias Guiro and El Loco, the first of which is Venezuelan, during a military strike against a stronghold in the northeast of Colombia in San Andrés, Santander. •El Espectador reports that the captured individuals were working on recruiting people as well as creating a mobility corridor between Santander […]
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•In Cúcuta, Colombia, there will be a summit between military and police forces of Colombia and Venezuela in order to discuss actions against guerilla groups such as FARC and the ELN. •The main point will be better control of the border area, and the summit will serve to carry out the anti-drug agreement signed April […]
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•FARC and the ELN have encampments in Venezuela according to Edgar Cely, Commander of the Colombian Armed Forces. •Voanews.com reports that during the presidency of Uribe, President Chávez of Venezuela halted diplomatic relations with Colombia in July of last year when guerilla leaders were found in Venezuela. •Current Colombian President Santos and President Chávez have […]
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Protest singer and member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Julian Conrado, formally requested asylum in Venezuela almost two months after Venezuelan authorities arrested him there with the declared intention of extraditing him to Colombia. Read Article
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The new state institution will be dedicated to working together with families and communities to humanize prisons and address the root causes that lead to imprisonment. Moving ahead with prison reforms in the wake of recent tumult, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appointed congresswoman Iris Varela to head the newly created Ministry of Penitentiary Services. Read […]
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According to a recent study on internet usage in Latin America, the Venezuelan people stand third in the region when it comes to use of social networking media such as Facebook and Twitter. An estimated 30% of Venezuela’s 28 million people are currently registered on Facebook and 21% on Twitter, placing the country’s use of […]
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Venezuela has the lowest percentage (0.38 percent) of social inequality in Latin America, according a report released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The President of the National Institute of Statistics, Elias Eljuri, said on Monday that the ECLAC report shows that extreme poverty in Venezuela was reduced […]
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According to ElUniverso.com seven press associations from South American countries stand with the Ecuadorian press organization, El Universo, condemning the attack on freedom of expression by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. On the 20th of July an Ecuadorian court found El Universo opinion editor and three directors guilty of slander against Correa, sentencing them to three […]
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The U.S. House of Representatives released a report this month focusing on Lebanese and Iranian terrorist groups, specifically Hezballah, that have established networks in South America at the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay and in Venezuela, reports infobae.com. The Triple Frontier is already a haven for organized crime and trafficking, and the Islamist […]
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Twenty-three students were arrested yesterday in Santiago, Chile for disorderly conduct during a student protest for better public education, reports abc.com.py. The march led to the UNICEF building in the Las Condes neighborhood, where students attempted to break in and overrun the offices. A similar, more peaceful, protest took place in early June when students […]
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An English tourist, Thomas Ossel, has been murdered after resisting a robbery on Margarita Island, Venezuela. He and his brother Jack Ossel were planning to return to Britain according to El Nacional. Jack Ossel suffered from gunshot wounds. Read Article
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has delegated some of his duties to his vice president and his planning minister as he prepares to return to Cuba for cancer treatment. Read Article .
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•El Espectador reports that Colombia will continue to supply Venezuela with power from Gaujira through the Cuestecitas – Cuatricentenario line until 2011. •The company Isagen has formally agreed to supply energy to Venezuela as an addition to the existing contract between Isagen and Edelca signed in 1992. •Venezuela is experiencing conditions of technical restrictions in […]
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•The Venezuelan consulate has sent to the Metropolitan Police at least 70 complaints of Venezuelan citizens claiming to have had their rights to travel violated in such incidences as seized vehicles and heavy fines. •Venezuelans have been coming to Cúcuta as tourists as well as within the context of business and commerce. •They are given […]
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•Tourists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela may enter Colombia for the World Cup U-20 beginning July 29 without passports, reported Terra.com. •According to the director of the Administrative Security Department, people from these nine countries need only submit their respective national identity cards. •Proexport, which promotes tourism in Colombia, […]
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•Three Colombian nationals have been found dead in the Venezuelan city San Cristóbal. •RCN Radio reports that one of the victims has been identified as Patricia Duarte, but the other two victims’ identities are still unknown. •Colombian authorities do not have any information about the murders. Read Article
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According to ElComercio.pe eight countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela will begin a joint study of water resources and deforestation in the Amazon region next August, announces the Treaty Organization of the Amazonian Region (ACTO). Officials say this is the first regional project of deforestation that can quantify and compare […]
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•26 narcotics traffickers in the services of Henry de Jesús López Londoño alias Mi Sangre have been captured. •The captures were part of Operación Tormenta (Operation Storm) which the Colombian Police performed with the DEA. •According to El Tiempo, one of the traffickers, Sanmartín Giraldo, was responsible for transporting cocaine in commercial airplanes from such […]
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According to Ecuadorinmediato.com about 250 passengers flying from Madrid, Spain to Quito, Ecuador have not received their luggage in a week after landing in Quito. Santa Barbra Airline is a Venezuelan owned company and some passengers say that their luggage disappeared during a flight stop in Caracas. Passengers add that the airline is not respecting […]
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President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez’s struggle with cancer has severely shaken Cuban society, according to terra.com. A long-lasting friendship between Chavez and Fidel Castro, now carried on with Raul Castro, has been the glue to a strong economic relationship between the 2 nations that has greatly boosted the economy and overall standard of living in […]
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•Latin America has become a destination for laundering money from trafficking of narcotics, kidnapping, and other illicit activities more than any place in the world, and afterwords, they go to European countries. •According to hoyveracruz.com.mx, countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil have become hotspots for laundering money using casinos, lotteries and even churches. […]
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On the other hand, the intelligence sources who have been following closely the situation in Caracas confirmed that Chavez’s daughter, Rosina, together with his mother, Marisabel Rodriguez, Venezuela mysteriously left for Cuba on a plane the Air Force . “A Marisabel and her daughter removed from the urgency,” said another of the sources. “That was […]
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In the midst of a wave of rumors about the health of the Venezuelan president who is undergoing medical treatment in Cuba and was emergency surgery for a pelvic abscess, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro noted that Hugo Chavez is “in charge” of his government, but also conceded that he is giving “a battle for their […]
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•The Presidential Comission for Disarmament, Control of Arms and Munitions will set up different working meetings or workshops focusing specific issues of arms and munitions per el-nacional.com. •One topic will be the production, importation, and distribution of arms. •Another topic will be the registration, destruction, and auditing of seized arms. •Other topics will focus on […]
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According to a projection made by Luis Fernandez, director of the National Police, in a week can be fired only two municipalities Caracas some 189 thousand bales. The account got taken as a sign to Sucre and Libertador, where there are approximately 3,700 neighborhoods. “Using an average balance of shots of each neighborhood, including Friday, […]
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he has his “full faculties” after an operation in Cuba and is managing government affairs, despite being ordered to rest for several days more. Read Article
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Roberto Briceño León, Venezuelan sociologist and consultant on parasitic diseases for the World Health Organization, gave a lecture entitled “Chagas Disease: from rural disease to urban epidemics” last week at the Second Conference for Strengthening the Teaching of Chagas Disease in Health Sciences. Per cuencarural.com, León explained that Chagas is no longer a disease that […]
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Flights in and out of major airports in Argentina and Uruguay are starting to return to normal, following two days of disruption caused by a vast cloud of ash from an erupting Chilean volcano. Read Article
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Venezuelan opposition lawmakers Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Carlos Berrizbeitia asked the Argentine Congress to launch an investigation to determine whether Venezuela s money has been used to fund the alleged humanitarian causes of the Foundation Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Read Article
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Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday from Havana, Cuba, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, had surgery this morning from a pelvic abscess that required emergency surgery. Read Article
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According to ElUniversal.com Ecuador will use the Sucre for all public transactions with Venezuela. The Sucre is a ‘virtual currency’ established to reduce the dominance of the dollar in international markets. The Single System for Regional Clearing (Sucre) was created by the Bolivian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA). In July 2010, the […]
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On the outside, the San Antonio prison on Margarita Island looks like any other Venezuelan penitentiary. Soldiers in green fatigues stand at its gates. Sharpshooters squint from watchtowers. Guards cast menacing glances at visitors before searching them at the entrance. Read Article
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According to ElComercio.com 12 agreements established a trust and a bilateral fund for development, USD 66 million, in Ecuador and Venezuela during a meeting of the two presidents in Salinas. Joint marketing venture in coca, bananas, flowers, aquaculture and packing plastic, were established. Other agreements included exporting 14,000 vehicles to Venezuela and the establishment of […]
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According to ElComercio.com Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez thanked Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa for his support in rejecting the sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Venezuelan oil company PDVSA for selling oil to Iran. Chavez called the sanctions “an empire aggression.” The sanctions were imposed during an OAS assembly in El Salvador. Reportedly, Chavez blames the […]
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ElComercio.com interviews Francesco Forgione, former president of the Italian Anti-Mafia Commission and a criminal organization specialist. With no visa required of foreigners, Ecuador attracts criminal groups like Ndrangheta, the world’s most dangerous mafia, interested in coca. As a coca producer, Ecuador has become a crossroads for organized crime due to the increase in production and […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that President Rafael Correa is meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Salinas. This meeting is reportedly going to last two hours and behind closed doors. The two presidents will discuss the relationship between Ecuador and Venezuela as well as the position of the countries internationally. At the same time, a bi-national meeting […]
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•In Colombian society, Venezuelans have made a name for themselves in the fields of art, music, and even television, and this influx of immigrants has its roots in the dismissal of workers in the petroleum industry in Venezuela. •Semana.com calls the reason for the first wave of immigrants the P factor. Hugo Chávez dismissed 18,000 […]
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According to ACN.com.ve Peru’s Consul in Venezuela, Cesar Vallejo reported that the electoral process was expected to exceed the April 10th turn out. Vallejo estimates that about 9,500 Peruvians will go to the polls in Venezuela Sunday. On Sunday, there will be 74 tables active throughout the day in Caracas. In Carabobo alone, 4,786 Peruvians […]
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F-AIR 2011, an international aeronautics fair, is to have more than 10 countries including the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela and Peru participating to display the technological advances in the field of aeronautics in each country.The fair will be held in Rionegro, Antioquia at the Aeropuerto Internacional José María Córdoba. According to the article from infodefensa.com, Colombia […]
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•Elespectador.com reports that Guillermo Enrique Torres, alias Julián Conrado and “el cantante de las FARC” was captured this Tuesday in Barinas, Venezuela. •President Hugo Chavez assures that Torres will be handed over to Colombian authorities as the processes are being carried out. Read Article
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Tuesday opened in Santa Cruz de Bolivia, Defense College of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), which will strengthen the bloc’s integration and design strategies to respond to the threats of foreign intervention in the continent. Read Article
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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez mocked U.S. concerns about Venezuela’s ties with Iran on Tuesday, joking that while his adversaries worry about Iranian-made missiles lining his country’s coast his government is actually erecting windmills there. Read Article
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Spanish police have arrested a man when he picked up in the city of Badajoz (Southwest) a parcel from Venezuela contained inside an accordion with 1,018 grams of cocaine. Read Article
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The Venezuelan government criticised the Obama administration’s move to impose sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company Pdvsa, calling the sanctions an “imperialist attack” against Venezuela.The U.S. State Department enforced the sanctions in an attempt to put further pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear programme by penalising companies which continue to trade with the Islamic […]
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On Wednesday the Latin American nations that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA) joined regional voices in their “indignation and rejection” of the U.S. government’s decision to impose unilateral sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Read Article
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Food intake of the food basket grew by 25% over the past 12 years, from 396.39 kilos of food a person consumed a year in 1999 to 499.76 kilos per person in 2010, the product of food policy Venezuelan State to ensure optimal intake of foods in the diet of the Venezuelan. Read Article
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•According to elespectador.com, Venezuela is carrying out its promise to keep sending fuel to Colombia despite the increased length of the transport (up to 122 extra kilometers) due to the heavy rains. •On April 2, Venezuela sent 15.2 million liters of fuel to Cúcuta, in the department Norte de Santander, Colombia. •Rafael Ramírez, minister of […]
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Venezuela’s president decreed a state of emergency for 90 days on the Andean state of Tachira The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez announced Thursday that a state of emergency decreed for ninety days in the Andean state of Tachira, which has been severely affected in recent days because of the torrential rains. Read Article
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18 months after he fled Venezuela to avoid criminal prosecution for what authorities claim were $27 million dollars in illegal currency transactions, a U.S. court granted political asylum to fugitive Venezuelan banker Eligio Cedeño. Read Article
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On Wednesday Venezuelan Vice President Elías Jaua strongly rejected claims by a German publication that his government has allowed Iranian military presence in Venezuelan territory. Read Article
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On Brazil’s northeast coast, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dreamed of building an oil refinery and naming it after a Brazilian adventurer who had fought for Venezuela’s independence. The joint venture with Brazil, he said in trips here, would help unify Latin America against his adversary, the United States. Read Article
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Tehran also is one of the allies of Hugo Chávez. Omitting the mullahs now even build missile silos in his country.The FARC terrorists are not the only villain with by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admitted. How “World Online” in last November reported that Chavez has with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on October 19, 2010 […]
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Wikileaks cables released on Saturday indicated that the leftist candidate Ollanta Humala received funding from Venezuela in 2006 and the right environment Keiko Fujimori planned in 2006 the return of former President Alberto Fujimori. Read Article
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A group of experts warns that electricity is not only delayed the plan of investments in generation, transmission and distribution, but also the measures taken by the Government in 2010 as part of emergency decree aggravated the situation of the sector to the point is more vulnerable today than a year ago. Read Article
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President Hugo Chavez confirmed that the major private channels of food distribution that lend themselves to speculation and hoarding should be operated with the participation of workers and community councils. “And possibly seized. it would increase the social networks of food distribution to ensure good quality and fair prices, “he said Sunday during a telephone […]
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The operations staff of the National Electricity Corporation (Corpoelec) still works in the plant Luisa Cáceres to restore normal power supply on the island of Margarita , after failures occurred in time to leave Monday night without light to several sectors. The state reported that several power generating units were affected by the disruption on […]
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Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 65,000 firearms as part of a disarmament program designed to reduce the high levels of violent crime affecting the country. Gen. Julio Cesar Morales says the number is double last year’s total and includes revolvers, automatic pistols, assault rifles, rifles and even homemade firearms. Read Article
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Planet Earth is beautiful and terrible with its natural and man-made objects. They are fascinating and scary at the same time. Some of these objects are holes in the ground, some man-made and others of natural origin. They all have one thing in common – nearly perfect circular shape and, therefore, are beautiful. However, the […]
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The release Tuesday of a “dossier” of Farc files, which were supposedly seized by the Colombian government in 2008, is truly a non-event. The report, by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), appears to be an attempt by hawks in the US and the UK to perpetuate, using “black propaganda”, the failed policies of […]
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is allegedly training a large number of Kuwaitis, Bahrainis and Saudis in a private training camp located in Waheera, a remote area near the borders of Venezuela and Columbia(sic), and intends to use them to carry out terrorist activities within their respective countries and other areas across the world in case Iran […]
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As Makled was handed over today to Venezuela by Colombian forces. Elespectador.com reported that he left behind a recording stating that he had proof, including video, of the involvement of Chavez and other Venezuelan officials. He expressed willingness to present this proof before the International Criminal Court. Makled professes that there is a route used […]
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Sweden should explain why a Swedish citizen accused of being a FARC rebel agent was allowed to leave the European country even though Colombia had an order out for his arrest, Venezuela’s foreign minister said Friday. Read Article
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Brazil ranks third in the list with 23.7% usage, Venezuela, fifth with 21% and Argentina, seventh with 18%, almost one out of five in the population use Twitter. Read Article
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A trivial argument turned into a homicide when a tourist pulled his gun and killed Sunday at Luis Alfredo Mindiola, 35 years old, on the Malecon Chichiriviche, Monsignor Iturriza municipality where the victim worked as a boatman. On Monday it emerged that Ruzbeh Amadi, 22, died at the clinic La Viña, Valencia, Carabobo state, where […]
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Ysmel Serrano, the coordinator of @chavezcandanga, said that one year after the creation of the official account of the Venezuelan Head of State in the micro-blogging social network, the account @chavezcandanga. Chávez has more than 1,400,000 followers. Read Article
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In less than a week, President Hugo Chávez Frías authorized wage increases and made a commitment to pay part of the debts with universities. Those obligations will cost the national Treasury USD 4.02 billion. Read Article
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A Libyan delegation has arrived in Caracas to discuss a peaceful solution to the ongoing war conflict in the North African country, said on Tuesday Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan Head of State is an ally of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Chávez has supported Gaddafi since the outbreak of a widespread revolt against the […]
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced a 26.5 percent increase of the minimum wage to be implemented in two segments, namely a 15 percent increase from May 1, and then a 10 percent rise from September 1. Read Article
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VENEZUELA said on Friday it formally left the Andean Community of Nations, a customs union that includes Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The foreign ministry said it will maintain trade relations with its South American partners ‘under other rules and principles. Read Article
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has described the situation created by the continual winter rain as “fairly serious.” He warned that precipitation will continue in the highest part of the country. The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies said that the rain would continue in Colombia until June. Read Article
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Carabobo Stereo 102.3 FM, a radio station based in the northern state of Carabobo, has been off the air since the evening of 18 March when around 30 representatives of the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) turned up unannounced with soldiers, shut it down and seized its equipment. Read Article
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Venezuela authorities remain on alert to the winter storm to hit the South American nations in recent days. Security forces remain constant monitoring and prevention in the most vulnerable to the continuing rainfall. Civil Protection officials (PC), Military District, fire, police, and alerts are deployed in areas most vulnerable to the incessant rains that are […]
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Spanish to English translation The drugs were transported in a suitcase on a bus from San Cristobal line, covering the Santa Barbara del Zulia route to Caracas / Five people were arrested later / OS “Madrugonazo the Underworld” dismantled dangerous gang “The Zulianos” Officials of the National Drug Commission of the Body of Scientific, Penal […]
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The aircraft declared an emergency for not landing gear retraction / The incident did not record any damage or injury to passengers, or affect the operation of the airport. Authorities Maiquetía International Airport Simón Bolívar activated its Emergency Plan Air (PEA) to address the Air France flight 471, which declared an emergency twenty-six minutes after […]
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The National Journalist’s Association (CNP) has unsuccessfully sent letters to the Ombudsman Office, the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, the Ministry of Information and Communication, the Vice-President’s Offices, and the National Assembly to address the issue of the restricted access to government information sources. Read Article
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A major blackout struck Caracas and most of Venezuela on Thursday at about 3:30 p.m. local time, hitting at least 18 states and the Greater Caracas. Read Article
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Uruguayan Minister of Defense Luis Rosadilla pledged to renegotiate a defense agreement with the Venezuelan government. Read Article
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The governments of Venezuela and Colombia are making progress in a legal framework to lay the institutional foundations for bilateral trade in view of looming Venezuela’s withdrawal from the Andean Community (CAN). Read Article
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The death of Yves Le Brass raised to four the number of tourists killed in Margarita Island in the past seven months, two of which took place in March. Read Article
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The Venezuelan goverment demanded the U.S. extradition of fugitive terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was acquitted on immigration fraud charges by a court in El Paso, Texas, in a trial described as a farce. Read Article
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On Thursday the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday’s expulsion of the US ambassador from Ecuador. This now leaves the United States without ambassadorial relations in three South American countries – Bolivia and Venezuela being the other two – thus surpassing the Bush administration in its diplomatic problems in the […]
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At the request of Attorney General, was detained a 17-year-old allegedly linked to the murder of French tourists, Yves Le Brass (63), which occurred on March 28, in Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta state. Presentation at the hearing, prosecutors 41 ° with national and 7 of that jurisdiction, Franklin Nieves and Zaribel Chollett, respectively, the young […]
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Two Venezuelan opposition leaders said today in Lima on the apparent influence of Hugo Chavez and his political project in the Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, who leads polls of voting intentions for next Sunday’s elections. Read Article
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Belarus won in 2010 from 4 to $ 6 per ton of Venezuelan oil processing in its refineries, the parliamentarians said today the vice president of the consortium Belneftejim Belarus Vladimir Volkov. “In 2010 we earned from the processing of Venezuelan oil: 4 to 6 dollars per ton,” he said. Read Article
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