Six weeks after the Nicolás Maduro regime declared a “national emergency,” protests are beginning to escalate throughout the country, including acts of vandalism and looting in some cases. Incidents such as those in Cumanacoa, a community in Sucre state, 900 kilometers east of Caracas, and Upata, 800 km southeast of [ … ]
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Guaidó Leads on Venezuela’s COVID-19 Response
While the Nicolás Maduro regime lies to the public about Venezuela’s confirmed coronavirus cases and its hospitals’ preparedness, Interim President Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly are taking a transparent and truthful leadership role in the COVID-19 response. “Information is a key element to face the pandemic,” Guaidó said on [ … ]
US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida: ‘There’s a lot of corruption coming from Venezuela’
Voice of America spoke with Ariana Fajardo, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who revealed details of the accusations against Nicolás Maduro and Venezuelan Supreme Court Chief Justice Maikel Moreno, and about Venezuela’s corruption money that enters the U.S. banking system. On March 26, Fajardo took part in [ … ]
Guaidó: ‘There is an intervention today in Venezuela, and it’s by Cubans’
Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaidó spoke with Voice of America and provided details about his plan to create a “National Emergency Government” through a State Council, and warned about the crisis that the country is undergoing due to the coronavirus pandemic. Guaidó, who is also the president of the National [ … ]
Venezuelan Crisis Strongly Affects Women
The crisis in Venezuela, which has caused more than 4.5 million people to go into exile, has particularly affected women. According to Tatiana Bertolucci, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the international humanitarian organization CARE, “women and girls” are more vulnerable, both within Venezuela and when they [ … ]
White House: US Offer to Nicolás Maduro ‘is too generous’
In an interview with Voice of America, Mauricio Claver-Carone, senior director of the National Security Council Office for Western Hemisphere Affairs, urged Nicolás Maduro to seriously consider the plan presented by the government of U.S. President Donald Trump to create a transitional government. Neither Maduro nor Interim President Juan Guaidó [ … ]
Investigative Journalism Report Reveals ‘Corporate Labyrinth’ of Venezuelan Defense Minister
According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the family of Venezuelan Defense Minister General Vladimir Padrino López was involved in a business network that included 24 companies based in the United States and Venezuela. “His family has built up a web of private companies and real estate [ … ]
Venezuela: Generals for Hire: the Corruption of Maduro’s Military Hierarchy
General Vladimir Padrino, the Venezuelan minister of Defense, is worth millions of dollars according to a new report published on April 10, 2020, by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Hernan Akhnanton Noguera, another high-ranking general in the Nicolás Maduro regime, is also reported to make millions. Yet [ … ]
The Truth About Cuba’s Medical Missions
With the global pandemic, Cuba is once again promoting its medical missions to other governments facing a shortage of medical professionals. But those governments, while desperate for help, should know what they are getting into. Abusive conditions are the reality for many of the 34,000–50,000 Cuban medical workers in more [ … ]
Maduro Fails Venezuelans on COVID-19
Hospitals across Venezuela face supply shortages that affect both doctors and patients. According to a national survey conducted on April 2 and certified by the National Assembly, 92 percent of the health sector doesn’t have soap on site. The same survey found that 61 percent doesn’t have face masks, and [ … ]
Abrams: ‘Every Dictatorship in Latin America Ends with a Negotiation’
U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams said on April 8 that the idea of negotiating with the regime to end the crisis is “realistic.” “Every dictatorship in Latin America, with the rarest of exceptions, ends with a negotiation,” Abrams said via teleconference, where he defended the U.S. Department of [ … ]
Venezuela: A Narco’s Dream
Since the 1980s, drug cartels have always dreamed of operating in a narco-state. From Pablo Escobar and his murderous Medellín Cartel to Joaquin Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel, different cartels have searched for ways to hold absolute power over their governments, said former President of Colombia Andrés Pastrana in an interview with [ … ]