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Venezuelan parliament votes to begin impeachment proceedings against President Nicolas Maduro
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/25/venezuelan-parliament-votes-to-begin-impeachment-proceedings-aga/
President Nicolas Maduro is facing renewed efforts to remove him from power - including an attempt to impeach him on Tuesday, which the government said was illegitimate Credit: Bloomberg
By Harriet Alexander, New York
25 October 2016 • 8:38pm
Venezuela;s opposition-led National Assembly has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against President Nicolas Maduro for violating democracy, on the eve of massive protests expected across the embattled nation.
Mr Maduro's government has dismissed the move as meaningless, and in practice the step is likely to prove purely symbolic.
But it is yet another sign of the turmoil in Venezuela - a country with the world's largest oil reserves, and yet a place where queues stretch for hours for basic foodstuffs, and animals in zoos are killed by hungry locals.
People queue outside a supermarket in Caracas Credit: AFP
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The Venezuela opposition should make aware that when the lefty government agree to dialog, what they want is to gain time and remain in power. Very rarely they willingly give up power. If the army give its support to the regime, it would be a bloodshed.Failure in Venezuela talks could lead to 'bloodshed': Vatican envoy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/failure-venezuela-talks-could-lead-bloodshed-vatican-envoy-183221507.html
AFPNovember 5, 2016
Venezuelan opposition leaders, who students are seen marching in support of November 3, 2016, and President Nicolas Maduro have agreed to political talks scheduled to start November 11, 2016 (AFP Photo/Ronaldo Schemidt)
Buenos Aires (AFP) - If upcoming Vatican-backed talks between Venezuela's bitterly antagonistic government and opposition fail, the result could well be "bloodshed," a papal envoy warned Saturday.
"If one delegation or the other ends the dialogue, it's not the pope but the Venezuelan people who will lose, because the path then could truly be one of blood," Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli told the Argentine daily La Nacion in Rome, after visiting Caracas.
Both sides are due to start talks next Friday aimed at finding some way to resolve Venezuela's deepening political and economic crisis.
The stakes are high for their oil-dependent nation, which is suffering a scarcity of food and basic goods, and which its unpopular President Nicolas Maduro has increasingly put under the control of his loyal military.
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Carlos Eire said:-"Guillermo Fariñas is but one of many hunger strikers who have taken on the corrupt and abusive Castro regime.Franklin Brito: A Martyr for Liberty and Human Rights in Venezuela
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Franklin Brito: A Martyr for Liberty and Human Rights in Venezuela
"I’ve learned of the death of hunger striker Franklin Brito. It appears that Hugo Chavez now has his own Orlando Zapata" - Yoani Sanchez, August 31, 2010 on twitter
Franklin Brito (September 5, 1960 – August 30, 2010)
Posted by John Suarez
August 30, 2016
Hunger strikes are the ultimate recourse in the arsenal of non-violent resistance, and over the years around the world it has succeeded at times but in places like Cuba, Ireland, and six years ago in Venezuela a human being died on hunger strike.
In Cuba the names of Pedro Luis Boitel, Orlando Zapata Tamayo and Wilman Villar Mendoza are remembered as is Bobby Sands of Northern Ireland (who the Cuban dictatorship built a memorial to in Cuba) and on August 30, 2010 Venezuela's Franklin Brito joined this select grouping that demonstrated the ultimate price when engaging in a hunger strike.
Franklin Brito was a farmer and a biologist whose land was expropriated by Hugo Chavez in 2000 according to CNN. Other news agencies place the date of expropriation anywhere between 2003 and 2004. He exhausted every recourse and was driven to the final option: the hunger strike in 2005. A chronicle of Brito's odyssey is available in Spanish on Wikipedia. In the video below taken three months prior to his death the hunger striker describes his condition and his struggle for justice:...
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Socialism/communism, leftist ideals are to blame..
Maduro regime implements “food apartheid.” Like the Castroit regime did in Cuba, the Chavistas are doing it in Venezuela as a mean to control the people.How ‘food apartheid’ is punishing some Venezuelans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ng-some-people-hungry/?utm_term=.c3d08fca9345
By Mariana Zuñiga
December 10, 2016
Venezuelan citizens line up to buy food at a store in Caracas on Nov. 30. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)
CARACAS, Venezuela — With food riots breaking out and supermarket shelves woefully bare, the government of embattled President Nicolás Maduro launched a new food distribution system in April promising to deliver subsidized groceries to every household in need.
Maduro called the new system “CLAPs” (Local Committees of Supply and Production). The name might be fitting, because those who don’t applaud his government haven’t been getting anything to eat.
Maduro told Venezuelans that the CLAP system would alleviate chronic scarcities and the “economic war” against his government he says is being waged by opposition leaders, business owners and the street-level black market vendors known as “bachaqueros.” The CLAPs would go door to door in Venezuela’s poorest communities selling bags of groceries at huge discounts.
Instead, critics say the system has devolved into a kind of “food apartheid” meant to punish those who oppose Maduro.
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Venezuela, a socialist country, cannot provide medical care of its own people. There are about 10,000 Cubans healthcare professionals in Venezuela, which sends the Castroit regime around 92,000 barrels of oil a day worth about US$3.2 billion a year in exchange for their services. Seems that the Cubans doctors cannot solve the medical care crisis. Many have fled to Colombia due to widespread shortages and social unrest in Venezuela.Venezuelans pour into Colombia, desperate for medical care they
can’t find at home
Desperate for medical attention, Venezuelans flood into Colombia | Miami Herald
Valeria Sophia Gómez (left) and Maijer Josue, twins, were born in Cúcuta,
Colombia, after their Venezuelan mother was told she needed to cross the border if
the babies were to live. Venezuela’s health crisis has sent thousands across the
border to seek care. Jim Wyss Miami Herald
By Jim Wyss
jwyss@miamiherald.com
December 23, 2016
Marili Gómez was eight months pregnant with twins in her hometown of Valencia,
Venezuela, when her doctor gave her stark advice: She could either take an 18-hour
bus ride and seek care in neighboring Colombia or lose the babies.
As she sat in a bare, second-story walk-up in this Colombian border town feeding
the newborns, Gómez said she didn’t have to think about the decision very long.
Just weeks before that doctor’s visit, she’d lost her 16-year-old son to Venezuela’s
violence — he was stabbed more than a dozen times in what police believe was a
robbery.
“I had no choice,” she said of the dangerous journey. “I wanted my babies to live.”
Venezuela’s stunning economic collapse — going from one of the hemisphere’s
most prosperous countries to the region’s basket case — is starting to have ripple
effects in neighboring nations.
In particular, its crumbling healthcare system is generating waves of medical
refugees. And while Colombia doesn’t keep track of national figures, hospitals
along the border say they’ve been swamped with cases.
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According to U.S. prosecutors El Aissami was one of Chávez’s main liaisons with Hezbollah and that he supplied the terrorist organization with Venezuelan passports. The Venezuelan government has issued at least 173 passports to radical Islamists seeking to enter North America. El Aissami has been facilitating the entry of Iranian terrorists into Venezuela for a long time.Maduro Hands Wide-Ranging Powers to Venezuela’s Vice President
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...-ranging-powers-to-venezuela-s-vice-president
by Andrew Rosati
January 30, 2017, 10:50 AM PST
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, and vice president Tareck El Aissami.
Photographer: Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has given his vice president wide-reaching decree powers, including the ability to determine ministries’ spending plans and expropriate private businesses, in a move that has fueled speculation over possible succession plans.
Tareck El Aissami, appointed by Maduro as vice president this month, is now authorized to issue economic orders that affect everything from taxes to foreign currency allotments for state-owned companies, according to the official gazette dated Jan. 26 and distributed Monday.
The new powers exceed those historically accorded the vice president’s office and rival those at times enjoyed by the president, said Jose Vicente Haro, a professor of constitutional law at the Central University of Venezuela. The last such decree issued by a Venezuelan head of government was made when late leader Hugo Chavez removed himself from the public eye for treatment during the last round of his fight with cancer.
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Tareck is the highest ranking official of being accused of drug trafficking, not the only one since other former ministers had also being accused. These accusations are from international anti- drug groups and other foreign governments supported by official documents.U.S. sanctions Venezuelan vice president on drug trafficking
U.S. sanctions Venezuelan vice president on drug trafficking
Jessica Durando and Alan Gomez , USA TODAY Published 5:48 p.m. ET Feb. 13, 2017
Tareck El Aissami
The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday against Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami, accusing him of playing a significant role in international drug trafficking.
The Treasury Department has been investigating El Aissami for years over his alleged relations with Venezuela’s largest convicted drug trafficker and a Middle Eastern militant group, resulting in the decision to designate him a narcotics trafficker under the federal "Kingpin Act."
The department said he orchestrated drug shipments from a Venezuelan air base and multiple seaports, some weighing more than 2,200 pounds per shipment.
The department also sanctioned Samark Lopez Bello, a Venezeulan businessman accused of being El Aissami's frontman. Lopez Bello helped launder money through a network of 13 companies in the U.S., Venezuela, Panama, the British Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom.
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice enacted a series of anti-democratic measures like invalidating the legislature and removing the immunity of the parliamentarians. It also transfer the right to legislate to the President, established de facto a dictatorship.By Victor Drax -
April 13, 2017
When I reached Avenida Francisco de Miranda, Capriles was already speaking. His voice —amplified by invisible speakers— seemed placed above us, directing the meeting to the Ombudsman’s Office. For this eighteen-year-old opera, this was new. He was telling us to take the fight not to some secluded spot in the city, but to one of the seats of government.
If you block your street, Diosdado will laugh as he stirs his scotch with his pinky. But if you march right to where he is, you challenge the infrastructure of power.
So, minutes after Capriles’s speech, María Corina, Pizarro, Ocariz and Capriles himself are walking right next to us. Watching them, people cheer and get hectic. They’re embraced by a halo of celebrity that still makes a deep impression on us. The vibe is very civil, similar to the one on September the 1st. People walk, sing, smile, take pictures. You forget what you’re doing, where you’re going, what’s about to happen. It feels normal.
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Maduro calling for a “constituent assembly” is a blatant effort to get rid of the last traces of democracy left in the country. The Castroit regimen is gearing towards converting Venezuela in another Cuba. If the regime succeed, the Venezuelans people is doom.Venezuela is heading toward cataclysm
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Demonstrators sit in front of riot police during a rally against Venezuela's president. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
By Editorial Board May 3
FOR A month, Venezuela has been rocked by massive popular demonstrations against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, which has led the country into a dystopia of economic dysfunction and criminality while blatantly violating democratic and constitutional norms. The demands of the opposition have been echoed by the majority of Venezuela’s neighbors in the Organization of American States: release political prisoners, hold democratic elections, and take steps to remedy drastic shortages of food and medicine, including by accepting humanitarian aid.
The regime’s response has been brutally uncompromising. It has pounded opposition marchers with rubber bullets and enveloped them in tear gas ; 29 people have been reported killed in the demonstrations. It has announced its intention to withdraw from the OAS, where it has faced demands to abide by a democratic charter that requires free assembly and free elections. On Monday, Mr. Maduro announced his most radical response yet: the calling of a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, a maneuver clearly intended to avoid future elections and formally convert Venezuela into an authoritarian state.
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Some of the generals in the meeting advocated for the use of snipers to kill demonstrators, and some that doubt the Maduro regime will survive, and fear that they will be prosecuted for their actions, have reservation using sniper. One of the officer in the meeting was willing to take the risk of recording it and releasing it. This give hope that at one point the army could abandon Maduro regime.In secret recording, Venezuelan general pushes for snipers to control demonstrators
Venezuelan generals talks about snipers on secret tape | Miami Herald
By Antonio Maria Delgado and Sonia Osorio
May 18, 2017
adelgado@elnuevoherald.com
Claiming to be primed for civil war, a Venezuelan general issued orders to prepare for the future use of snipers against anti-government protesters, according to a secret recording of a regional command meeting held three weeks ago at a military base in the northwestern Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto.
On the recording, obtained from a Washington source that has provided el Nuevo Herald with information on Venezuela for previous stories, the generals discuss the legality and risks of using snipers during the massive demonstrations taking place almost daily against President Nicolás Maduro.
The military, however, insists publicly that it is not using lethal force against demonstrators, a claim that was repeated on Wednesday by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez.
The meeting, chaired by Division General José Rafael Torrealba Pérez, took place in the last week of April as Venezuela’s socialist government continued to try to contain the unrest. Local news reports said at least four demonstrators were killed by gunfire this week, raising the death toll to at least 42, with more than 700 wounded.
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The Venezuela government has morphed into a dictatorship. Since 1998, when Chavez was elected, food imports skyrocketed, agricultural production had collapsed and Venezuelan are starving. The embrace of socialism by the Chavistas has taken the country in a death spiral.Venezuela’s descent into anarchy is only beginning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...chy-is-only-beginning/?utm_term=.30edd1c11e6f
By Matt O'Brien June 2, 2017
Demonstrators who oppose the Venezuelan government clash with police on a main street of Caracas, (Miguel Gutierrez/European Pressphoto Agency)
Venezuela is on the brink of civil war.
Its economy has collapsed, its people are starving, and its government is to blame — although its grip on power is still strong enough that, as we'll get to in a minute, Goldman Sachs sure seems like it's betting that it will continue. Which is to say that things are about as dire as could be. The people are desperate, but so is the regime since it's terrified of facing any consequences for what is has done. The result has been a crescendo of state violence against the backdrop of a humanitarian catastrophe.
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The Venezuelan people need to put an end to the Maduro regime. Peaceful demonstrations alone would not do the job. The regime has to be remove by force. The international community would only act after thousands of Venezuelan civilians are murdered by the Maduro regime in a civil war.The region cannot just stand by as Venezuela veers toward civil war
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People rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)
By Editorial Board June 30, 2017
VENEZUELA’S POLITICAL and humanitarian crisis, which has long been desperate and deadly, this week tipped toward the surreal. On Tuesday, a helicopter swooped over the Supreme Court and interior ministry, dropping grenades and firing shots; President Nicolás Maduro called it a U.S.-backed coup attempt. But no one was injured in the incident, and when the pilot of the helicopter turned out to be an actor who has played a police commando in the movies — and who has yet to be detained by authorities — opposition leaders understandably wondered whether the incident was orchestrated by Mr. Maduro.
If so, it wouldn’t be surprising. The corrupt clique around the president, which inherited the leftist populist movement founded by Hugo Chávez, is resorting to increasingly far-fetched tactics to combat a mass protest movement that has the support of the vast majority of Venezuelans. It has dispensed tons of tear gas at the daily marches and demonstrations, and fired thousands of bullets, both rubber and real; at least 78 people have been killed since the unrest began in April. Five died on Wednesday.
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Maduro’s opposition leaders want to know why he went to Cuba. Well a number of Cubans dissidents know what is going on. He went to get his orders from the Castroit regime of what to do to prop up the political system and survive with the support of the military.After Maduro’s secret trip to Cuba, opposition leaders want to know: ‘Why did he go?’
After Maduro?s secret trip to Cuba, opposition leaders want to know: ?Why did he go?? | Colorado Springs Gazette, News
By: Nora Gamez Torres, Associated Press - August 17, 2017
The unannounced visit to Cuba earlier this week by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, apparently to pay homage to the late Fidel Castro, has rekindled criticisms about the Cuban government’s strong influence on Venezuela’s crisis.
“Mr. Maduro traveled secretly last night to Cuba. Why did he go? He’s been to Havana more than Maracaibo or San Cristobal,” Venezuelan opposition leader and Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles wrote in Spanish on a Tweet posted Monday.
“Why did Mr. Maduro go?” Capriles added in a video posted Wednesday on Periscope. “To hand over more of our oil? To commit our armed forces even more, asking for reinforcements from the Cuban military so they can continue … to command the Venezuelan military?”
In the midst of the deepening political crisis in Venezuela, opposition activists in both countries have stepped up their complaints about what they allege to be the noxious influence of Havana over domestic affairs in the South American country.
“The Castro government tests and applies all its repressive technology in Venezuela,” said a declaration signed by 42 Cuban government opponents. “Havana designs the strategy for installing a totalitarian regime, and sends the agents necessary to carry out those objectives. The Chavista regime, plagued by corruption and drug trafficking, has been the perfect ally.”
The declaration signers — including prominent Cuban dissidents Berta Soler, Guillermo Farinas, Jose Daniel Ferrer and Antonio Rodiles — added that Cuban ruler Raul Castro and his son Alejandro, as well as Maduro and his No. 2., Diosdado Cabello, “should be held equally responsible for the disastrous situation in the sister nation.”
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A coalition of human rights activists from different countries called on the U.N Human Rights Council to convene an urgent meeting to finally suspend the membership of Venezuela. He probably canceled the trip to Geneva because was afraid of been detained by a judge like the Pinochet case.Venezuelan Dictator Maduro Backs out of Attending UN Human Rights Council Session
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By: Orlando Avendaño - @OrlvndoA - Sep 6, 2017, 10:29 am
In an official statement, the organization said the dictator will be replaced by Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza. However, the UN’s statement did not provide an explanation for why Maduro suddenly canceled. (Wikimedia)
Reports late last week claimed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — whose regime has been sanctioned and denounced for human rights violations and corruption — would be attending the United Nations’ upcoming meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland this September 11. Now, that doesn’t look to be the case, as the dictator unexpectedly backed out this Tuesday, September 5.
The United Nations confirmed the scheduling change, saying that Maduro will in fact not be participating in the session at all.
Reports late last week claimed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — whose regime has been sanctioned and denounced for human rights violations and corruption — would be attending the United Nations’ upcoming meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland this September 11. Now, that doesn’t look to be the case, as the dictator unexpectedly backed out this Tuesday, September 5.
The United Nations confirmed the scheduling change, saying that Maduro will in fact not be participating in the session at all.
The change reportedly happened overnight, because on Monday, September 4, Venezuelan officials said Maduro wanted to speak at the opening of the thirty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council.
UN Watch, which monitors the activity of the United Nations, tweeted, “The Venezuelan dictator — who murders, tortures, beats, jails, starves own people — to open UN Human Rights Council.”
But on Tuesday, UN Watch reporter Hillel Neuer tweeted that the United Nations is planning to bring “pro-democracy” voices to the council meeting with the intention of denouncing the actions of Maduro’s regime.
The companies still operating in Venezuela are at risk of losing everything, having their assets expropriated. Venezuela economy is a sinking ship with debt of $3.5 billion by the end of the year. The economic situation of Maduro regime continuous to go from bad to worse with thousands of employments disappearing due to the regime policies.To Survive in Venezuela Multinationals Slash Operations and Payrolls to Bare Minimum
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By: Sabrina Martín - @SabrinaMartinR - Oct 6, 2017, 4:15 pm
Employees sometimes wait up to 10 months to return to work when shortages cause stop in production. (Twitter)
Multinational companies in Venezuela are starting to look like the living dead versions of what they once were, as the country continues to flounder in an economic crisis marked by near-hyperinflation and scarcity. Most of these companies are operating at their minimum capacity due to a lack of raw materials, a new report from Reuters revealed, in addition to neglect from President Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
The report focused on companies such as Ford, Fiat Chrysler and Nestlé, whose employees sometimes wait up to 10 months to return to work when shortages cause a stop in production.
Reuters counted some 150 multinational companies that remain in operation in the struggling socialist nation, many of which have had to cut their production of cars, food and other fundamental products. Many of these companies have reportedly turned their focus to the products that are the cheapest and easiest to manufacture; operating in a sort of survival mode. The result has been a reduction in worker shifts, pay and workdays.
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Chavez really made a mess out of a rich, rich country. But they voted for the jerk and now that the populist policies that persuaded the masses are dead, the man that took up the baton is now caught out holding the stick. Now he and the people will pay the price of the foolishness.
In 2017 more than two million Venezuelan have left the country due to the deterioration of the quality of life. Maduro regime has caused massive inflation and political instability, and food and medicine shortages have worsened.Venezuela’s Exiled Supreme Court Justices Lead International Effort to Supply Food, Medicine
https://panampost.com/sabrina-marti...ces-lead-international-effort-to-supply-food/
BY: SABRINA MARTÍN - @SABRINAMARTINR - NOV 14, 2017
Judge Elenis Rodríguez, who is now living in exile in Chile, said they are seeking support from international organizations and countries in the region that will pressure Maduro into accepting aid packages. (Twitter)
Many members of Venezuela’s exiled Supreme Court are still in exile, but that hasn’t stopped them from taking action against Nicolás Maduro’s regime. From Chile, the judges announced they are opening a humanitarian aid channel to address the severe food and medicine shortage plaguing the nation.
Judge Elenis Rodríguez, who is now living in exile in Chile, said they are seeking support from international organizations and countries in the region that will pressure Maduro into accepting aid packages.
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