Víctor Hugo Quero Case Highlights Failures in the Justice and Prison Systems

For Carmen Teresa Navas, it was enough to gather the strength to find out where her son was. After finding him dead, sadness, helplessness, and perhaps rage seemed to have drained the health from her 82-year-old body. José Gregorio Yépez She was not looking for culprits. She was only looking for her son. In that […]

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Opportunity, New Political Moment, or Transition?

Américo Briceño Dos Santos, political scientist and university professor In a social context that continues to resign vast sectors of Venezuelan society to a relative deprivation of their material conditions, and with political violence shaping the social order—becoming somatized in bodies and undermining the collective mood—the civic spirit shifts its horizon of expectations from the […]

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U.S. Prosecutors Charge Alex Saab in Alleged International Money Laundering Scheme Involving Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

The Daily Journal.- Venezuela’s former Minister of Industries, Alex Saab, appeared this Monday before a federal court in the Southern District of Florida after a new formal indictment against him was unsealed and following his deportation from Caracas last Saturday. U.S. authorities have charged him with conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, linked to the alleged […]

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Diosdado Cabello Says Alex Saab Used Illegal Documentation and Justifies His Deportation to the U.S.

The Daily Journal.- Secretary General of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, made statements this Monday regarding the legal status and nationality of former Minister of Industries Alex Saab, who was deported to the United States last Saturday. Cabello asserted that Saab carried false documentation and that his departure from the country […]

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Delcy Rodríguez Says Alex Saab’s Deportation Strictly Responds to Venezuela’s “National Interests”

The Daily Journal – Acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, broke her silence regarding Alex Saab’s recent departure from the country, confirming that the government carried out an administrative deportation measure against him. During the inauguration of several business ventures in Caracas, the head of state stressed that all actions taken by her administration are […]

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Venezuela Is, de Facto, the 51st State

Audio: https://clyp.it/enjqmvrp Dr. Román Reyes Vásquez.— For decades, the mere idea that Venezuela could seriously debate any form of political integration with the United States would have triggered a national heresy. A country shaped by the Bolivarian imagination, deeply influenced by oil nationalism and by a historical narrative of Latin American sovereignty, would hardly have […]

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Venezuela Argues in U.S. Court That Citgo Is Worth Nearly Three Times the Sale Offer

 The  Daily  Journal.-  Lawyers  representing  Venezuela  have  asked  a  U.S.  court  to  suspend  the  sale  process  of  Citgo  Petroleum,  arguing  that  the  company’s  valuation  has  increased  significantly  since  the  auction  of  its  parent  company,  PDV  Holding,  was  approved  in  late 2024    .  According  to  Reuters,  attorney  Alexandra  Cumings  stated  in  a  letter  to  Delaware  […]

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BCV President to Reuters: “The Entire Planet Views Venezuela’s Debt Restructuring Process with Enthusiasm”

The  Daily  Journal.-  The  interim  president  of  the  Central  Bank  of  Venezuela ( BCV),  Luis  Pérez,  described  the  launch  of  the  renegotiation  of  the  country’s  external  obligations  as  a  fundamental step that brings the nation “out of the shadows” in international markets.  In  an  exclusive  interview  with  the  Reuters  news  agency,  Pérez  explained  that  the  […]

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Lavrov Accuses the U.S. of Repeating in Iran the “Strategy” of Oil Control Applied Against Venezuela

 The  Daily  Journal.-  Russian  Foreign  Minister  Sergey  Lavrov  denounced  on  Friday  that  the  United  States  is  replicating  in  Iran  the  same  pressure  tactics  it  previously  used  against  Nicolás  Maduro’s government in order to secure control over energy resources.  The  statements  were  made  during  a  press  conference,  reported  by  the  EFE  news  agency,  within the framework […]

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Bloomberg: World Bank to Send High-Level Delegation to Caracas to Resume Technical Dialogue

The  Daily  Journal.-  A  group  of  representatives  from  the  World  Bank  will  visit  Caracas  to  meet  with  Venezuelan  authorities,  marking  the  first  in-person  meeting  of  this  kind  since  formal relations were restored last month, according to a Bloomberg report. Venezuela  has  been  a  member  of  the  financial  institution  since  1946,  although  the  last  loan  granted […]

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