Delcy Rodríguez: “We Will Surpass 500 Releases in the Next Few Hours”

The Daily Journal.- Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced on Friday that at least 500 prisoner releases would be carried out “in the next few hours” in the country. The statement was made during a meeting presenting the progress report on the implementation of the Law on Amnesty for Democratic Coexistence, attended by National Assembly […]

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U.S. Conducts Aerial Military Exercise Over Caracas Under Southern Command Supervision

The Daily Journal.- Two MV-22B Osprey aircraft belonging to the United States Marine Corps flew over Caracas this Saturday to carry out a military exercise at the facilities of the U.S. Embassy in the Venezuelan capital. Through the diplomatic mission’s official social media account, it was explained that the deployment aimed to “ensure the military’s […]

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Manuel Sutherland: “A Lengthy Audit and Exhaustive Investigation of Venezuela’s Debt, Every Bond, Paper, and Ticket, Is Necessary if Payment Is to Be Made”

Yahvé Álvarez.- “A lengthy audit and an exhaustive investigation of Venezuela’s debt, of every bond, paper, and ticket, would be necessary in the event of repayment, and that would require at least eight or nine months, which would be ideal to thoroughly examine the debt without harming honest investors while also avoiding excessive payments that […]

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Venezuelan Government Authorizes U.S. Overflights in Caracas

The Daily Journal.- Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, announced this Thursday through an official statement that national authorities have granted permission to the Embassy of the United States of America to conduct a security and contingency exercise in the capital city next Saturday, May 23. “The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela […]

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Bloomberg: Erebor Bank Startup Proposes Reconnecting Venezuela to the U.S. Financial System

The Daily Journal. – The U.S. startup Erebor Bank, financially backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, has begun direct contacts with senior Venezuelan officials to propose restoring the country’s access to the U.S. financial system, according to a Bloomberg report. The digital bank, which obtained its operating license in the United States just three months ago, […]

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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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