The first tanker to restart the shipping of crude from the shores of the Bolivarian Republic to China was the Kyoto, which loaded 1.8 million barrels of oil at Venezuela’s Jose port in late August, according to data from shipping monitoring service Tanker Trackers, as quoted by Reuters. The data …
Read More »US confirms 1st ambassador to Venezuela in a decade amid rocky relations & sanctions
Story’s nomination was confirmed by a US Senate vote. He had previously led an American “virtual embassy” while serving as Chargé d’affairs for the Venezuela Affairs Unit in Bogota, the capital of Venezuela’s neighbor, Colombia. Washington and Caracas have not exchanged ambassadors since 2010 when then-Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez refused …
Read More »‘Trump left a minefield between US and Venezuela’: Maduro says he’s ready to ‘work’ with Biden to mend relations
“We will work, hopefully, to resume decent, sincere, direct channels of dialogue between the future government of Joe Biden and the legitimate and constitutional government of Venezuela,” Maduro said in a televised speech on Sunday. Donald Trump left a minefield between the government of the United States and Venezuela … …
Read More »US threatens to destroy Iranian missiles if shipped to Venezuela as Washington slams Tehran with new oil sanctions
“The transfer of long-range missiles from Iran to Venezuela is not acceptable to the United States and will not be tolerated or permitted,” Elliott Abrams, the State Department Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela told Fox News on Monday. While providing no evidence that such arms transfers have already occurred …
Read More »‘Sputnik V arrived!’ Maduro thanks Russia as Venezuela receives first batch of Russian Covid-19 vaccine
“We are the first country from the Western Hemisphere which will start the Phase III trial of this vaccine against Covid-19,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted, expressing his gratitude to Russia. Red crates containing doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to immunize 2,000 people arrived at the Simon Bolivar International …
Read More »‘Without any basis in international law’: Venezuela blasts US sanctions on Maduro & Iran as ‘sustained aggression’
“Venezuela denounces the new US aggression to the international community, announcing alleged unilateral sanctions against President Nicolas Maduro, as part of a sustained campaign of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran and our country,” Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza wrote in a tweet on Monday. Caracas said Washington’s actions showed …
Read More »Venezuela says it captured ‘US spy’ targeting two oil refineries with ‘heavy, specialized’ weapons
The spy was trying to collect information on the refineries in Amuay and Cardón, Maduro said in a televised address on Friday. The two facilities are located on the Paraguaná Peninsula, along the Venezuelan coast just south of Aruba. According to the president, the detained American is a member of …
Read More »Venezuela scenario at play? Lithuania recognizes exiled opposition figurehead Tikhanovskaya as ‘elected leader’ of Belarus
In the resolution, titled “On the Illegitimate Union Imposed by Russia on Belarus” and adopted on Thursday, the Lithuanian parliament threw its weight behind the presidential election’s official runner-up, deeming her and the Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council “the only legitimate representatives of the Belarusian people.” The resolution refers to Tikhanovskaya …
Read More »The situation deteriorated sharply at the border of Venezuela and Colombia
Another sharp statement from Colombia to Venezuela address forced Caracas to send to the border with this country for at least a half dozen jet systems of volley fire “Grad”. Similar amounts of reactive systems is enough to make only one shot to eliminate half of Colombia’s army, at the …
Read More »Venezuela demanded that France issue hiding in the Embassy of Guido
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza confirmed rumors that illegally proclaimed himself President of Venezuela Juan Guido hiding in the French Embassy, and demanded his extradition to justice. “We hope that these governments (France and Spain) will act properly, respecting the laws of the receiving state, in …
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