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'Oil for vaccines,' offers Venezuela's Maduro as COVID bites

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 11:12 AM

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday offered "oil for vaccines" as his country, which is under economic sanctions affecting the oil sector in particular, faces a second wave of coronavirus.   Read more »

Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over COVID-19 misinformation

Brian Ellsworth, Reuters
Posted at Mar 27 04:23 PM

Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesman said on Saturday. Read more »

Venezuela to buy 10 million doses of Russian COVID-19 vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 16 10:41 AM

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday that his government has agreed to buy 10 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. Read more »

Venezuela, once an oil giant, reaches the end of an era

Sheyla Urdaneta, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 08 07:55 AM

Venezuela’s colossal oil sector, which shaped the country and the international energy market for a century, has come to a near halt, with production reduced to a trickle by years of gross mismanagement and U.S. sanctions. The collapse is leaving behind a destroyed economy and a devastated environment and, many analysts say, bringing to an end the era of Venezuela as an energy powerhouse. Read more »

Venezuela's Maduro says son to join virus vaccine trial

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 10:13 AM

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday his son will join trials of Sputnik V, the coronavirus vaccine which was met with caution when Russia announced it was the world's first to be approved. Read more »

Venezuela president behind crimes against humanity: UN probe

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 17 01:10 PM

GENEVA, Switzerland - Venezuela's president and top ministers are responsible for probable crimes against humanity, UN investigators said on Wednesday in a report the country's government quickly labeled as "riddled with falsehoods." Read more »

Venezuela calls US warship presence 'a provocation'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 25 08:08 AM

CARACAS - Venezuela accused the United States on Wednesday of "an act of provocation" after a US warship steamed close to the South American country's territorial waters the day before. Read more »

Nearly five million have fled Venezuela as abuses continue: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 11 12:04 AM

Some 4.9 million people have left Venezuela, wracked by years of economic and political crisis, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, decrying ongoing attacks on opposition politicians, protesters and journalists. Read more »

Maduro bids to revive Venezuela's 'petro' cryptocurrency

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 08:20 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday decreed that airlines flying from Caracas must pay for fuel in Venezuela's ailing "petro" cryptocurrency, which he ordered to be more widely used in the cash-strapped South American country. Read more »

Facing US sanctions, Venezuela offers suppliers payment in Chinese yuan: sources

Mayela Armas and Corina Pons, Reuters
Posted at Nov 28 02:30 PM

CARACAS - Venezuela's government and its oil company PDVSA have offered to pay suppliers and contractors into accounts in China using the yuan currency, five people familiar with the matter said. Read more »

In Venezuela, special police force wreaks havoc in slums

AFP reporters in Caracas
Posted at Nov 07 12:29 PM

EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS: Special Action Forces in Venezuela are accused of shooting young men at point-blank range, inventing gun battles to cover their tracks, hiding autopsy reports and preventing relatives from seeing any official files. An NGO has recorded 831 "executions" carried out by FAES members since 2018.  Read more »

Venezuela's Guaido holds 'exploratory' talks with China, Russia: envoy

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 22 07:45 AM

SAO PAULO - Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido has asked China and Russia to help end a political crisis crippling the Latin American country during "exploratory" talks, his diplomatic representative in Brazil said Monday. Read more »

Venezuelan officials discussed Maduro exit behind his back: US security advisor

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 21 10:59 PM

WASHINGTON - Venezuelan officials reached out to the US behind President Nicolas Maduro's back solely to discuss his exit from power and free elections, National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday. Read more »

Venezuela limps back to normal after another blackout

Esteban Rojas, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 24 08:30 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela - Electricity has been restored in all of Caracas and several other regions of Venezuela after a major blackout, the government said Tuesday -- the latest taste of misery for a country mired in economic crisis. Read more »

US plans to divert $40-M in aid to Venezuela's opposition

Reuters
Updated as of Jul 17 09:41 AM

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to divert more than $40 million in humanitarian aid for Central America to support the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. Read more »

Disappointed Venezuelans lose patience with Guaido as Maduro hangs on

Angus Berwick and Mircely Guanipa, Reuters
Updated as of Jul 02 08:16 AM

CARACAS/PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela - Four days before Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido launched a military uprising in a bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro, he told supporters at a rally outside the capital, Caracas: "In the next few days, we'll decide our destiny." Read more »

Venezuela's Maduro says authorities foiled opposition coup plot

Reuters
Posted at Jun 27 07:48 AM

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday security forces had foiled an opposition coup attempt that included plans to assassinate him and other top political figures and install a jailed former military officer as president. Read more »

Venezuela's Guaido defends planned talks with Maduro representatives

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 27 07:55 AM

BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Sunday defended his decision to send delegates to Oslo for talks with representatives of President Nicolas Maduro's government, warning that critics of the move risk becoming accomplices of his rival's "dictatorship." Read more »

Russian army helping Venezuela amid US 'threats': Moscow's ambassador

Thibaut Marchand, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 25 01:44 PM

MOSCOW - Russian troops in Venezuela are helping President Nicolas Maduro's embattled regime prepare in the face of the "threat of the use of force" by the US, Moscow's ambassador to Caracas told AFP Friday. Read more »

China sends 71 tons of medical aid to Venezuela

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 14 11:53 AM

CARACAS - A second airplane from China carrying medical supplies including medicine arrived in Venezuela on Monday as part of a "humanitarian technical" cooperation agreement between President Nicolas Maduro's government and the Asian powerhouse. Read more »