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Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has held onto power despite growing opposition to his rule. He has done so by ensuring that his opponents lose political power. He has pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy in Venezuelan politics. Nicolás Maduro, president of crisis-stricken Venezuela, will run for reelection in Venezuela in 2018, Vice President Tarick Al […]
Thomson Reuters Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says his country could stop selling oil to the US. The US stepped up sanctions in August, and sales to the US have been dwindling ever since. Maduro says it’s up to President Donald Trump to decide. True to his ‘anti-imperialistic’ rhetoric, Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolas Maduro now […]
Published time: 16 Oct, 2017 05:48 Nicolas Maduro’s government has won a majority of governorships in Venezuela’s regional election on Sunday. Electoral board president Tibisay Lucena said the ruling Socialist Party took 17 governorships, versus five for the opposition Democratic Unity coalition, Reuters reported. The ruling Socialist Party previously controlled 20 of the 23 state […]
Published time: 9 Oct, 2017 03:39 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has teased US President Donald Trump, his fierce opponent, with a message of thanks for making him famous with constant criticism. Read more “He has made me famous around the world. Every time he mentions me, they love me more,” Maduro said on Venezuelan state […]
Published time: 7 Oct, 2017 19:52 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has visited Belarus and met with the country’s leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, to discuss greater military cooperation. Ahead of talks with the Belarusian president, Maduro said that “cooperation in the military sphere has been very successful and we need to expand it,” AP reported. Lukashenko said […]
The firebrand Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, has verbally lashed Donald Trump, claiming he knows little of Latin American geography. He also said that Trump “reads from notes,” even though the US leader is known for speaking off-the-cuff. Maduro made a series of emotional statements while addressing the 2017 Russian Energy Week in Moscow on Wednesday. […]
The Venezuelan opposition has been “lobbying for sanctions” in Washington against the Maduro government, and now blames him for the economic sanctions imposed by Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told RT. In an interview with RT Spanish, Arreaza addressed the massive wargames which kicked off across Venezuela earlier on Saturday, bringing together 900,000 people, […]
Reuters, Jorge Silva CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma have been taken from their homes, where they were serving house arrest, family members said on Tuesday, adding that President Nicolas Maduro was responsible for their fates. Both leaders in recent days have called on Venezuelans to join protests against Maduro […]
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro promised that the people will have a final say whether to reject or greenlight a new constitution, which a special body called the National Constituent Assembly has been tasked with drafting. “I shall propose it explicitly: the new constitution will go to a consultative referendum, so it is the people who […]
Reuters/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela’s National Guard forces on Wednesday assaulted several reporters, including AFP photographer Luis Robayo, as they covered a protest against President Nicolas Maduro. Robayo said the troops beat him as they sought to stop him from taking pictures of clashes between demonstrators and the National Guard on Caracas’ Francisco Fajardo […]
