Caracas (TSN) – The government of Venezuela denounced a failed series of attacks against several strategic targets in Caracas, according to information revealed by the Vice-president and Minister of Communication and Tourism Jorge Rodriguez. Rodriguez presented evidence of the plan orchestrated from Colombia with the intention of destabilizing the government of PresidentContinue Reading
Merida (VZA) -The Venezuelan government has announced the expansion of Chinese investment in the country’s oil industry, with the aim of increasing production by 120,000 barrels per day. The investment, which authorities say is worth US $3 billion, financed the construction of a new oil blending plant inaugurated last Thursday as the firstContinue Reading
Caracas (VZA) – The latest measures amount to a total trade embargo impacting both US and foreign entities. The Trump administration has imposed a sweeping economic embargo against Venezuela in its efforts to oust the Maduro government. An executive order signed by Trump on Monday declares all Venezuelan state assets in the US “blocked,”Continue Reading
Caracas (GPA) – The new US sanctions on Venezuela meant to target the CLAP food program proves there is nothing “humanitarian” about Washington’s concerns. Last week the United States Department of Treasury placed new sanctions on multiple individuals and businesses connected to the Bolivarian government’s Local Committees for Supply andContinue Reading
Caracas (TSN) – The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) presented a statement condemning US sanctions and hostile policies against Venezuela. Non-Aligned Countries demanded on Sunday that the United States Government immediately lift the economic and financial sanctions imposed on Venezuela. In a statement signed by the members of the international organization, which met for two days in Caracas, the delegations of 120 NAM countries indicated thatContinue Reading
Caracas (TSN) – The Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, published Tuesday a communiqué on his Twitter account denouncing and rejecting statements made by the High Representative of the European Union (EU), Federica Mogherini, as she threatened the South American country with new sanctions if there was no progress in talks betweenContinue Reading
New York (TSN) – The United Nations (U.N.) Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of sanctions, Idriss Jazairy, expressed deep concern on Monday at the recent measures against Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran by the United States (U.S), arguing the use of economic sanctions for political purposes violates human rights and international law.Continue Reading
Caracas (VZA) -The Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) released economic indicators on Tuesday for the first time in over three years. The data reveals that the Venezuelan economy has contracted by 47.6 percent between 2013 and the third trimester of 2018, the last one for which there are figures. There has been noContinue Reading
Caracas (FAIR) – Judith Miller and Michael Gordon published their now infamous New York Times article on September 8, 2002, falsely claiming on the basis of unnamed “American officials” that Iraq had acquired “aluminum tubes” with the aim of producing “an atomic bomb.” Disgraced by her regurgitation of bogus claims, Miller leftContinue Reading
Caracas (VZA) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed holding early parliamentary elections as a way to defuse the country’s political crisis. “Let’s see who gets the most votes! Let’s find a political, constitutional and democratic path forward,” Maduro said at the end of a march on Monday commemorating the anniversary of hisContinue Reading