Venezuela

CARACAS, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The Chief of Staff of the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) Admiral Remigio Ceballos on Friday launched military exercises to bolster Venezuela's defenses.

The drills were intended to pay tribute to former President Hugo Chavez on the eighth anniversary of his death on March 5, 2013.

CARACAS, March 2 (NNN-TELESUR) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced that in-person classes will begin in April in compliance with biosecurity measures to prevent COVID-19 contagions.

The decision comes after a proposal submitted by Education Minister Aristobulo Isturiz. Classes will be held during the days when the COVID-19 quarantine is relaxed.

This month teachers will be included in the vaccination campaign which started immunizing medical personnel on Feb 18 following the arrival of Russian Sputnik V vaccines. 

CARACAS, Feb 11 (NNN-TELESUR) — United Nations representative Alena Douhan visits Venezuela to assess the impact of US economic sanctions imposed on the Bolivarian nation since 2015. 

The visit announcement came shortly after the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) acknowledged that its country’s sanctions on Venezuela have killed tens of thousands of people.

The results of the analysis of the US unilateral coercive measures imposed on this South American country will be released in September, according to the UN.

CARACAS, Feb 7 (NNN-TELESUR) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said that his country is ready to send a second shipment of oxygen to Brazil to ease the health emergency caused by COVID-19 in the Roraima and the Amazon states.

Workers at Venezuela’s Orinoco Steel Mill (Sidor), which has a powerful oxygen plant, suggested the government prepare an oxygen shipment similar to the one sent to the Brazilian city of Manaus last month.

CARACAS, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — About 200,000 protestors stormed the streets in Venezuela, to demand the release of Alex Saab, a special envoy for the South American country, who is under house arrest in Cape Verde, Africa on charges of money laundering.

The protests held across numerous cities of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela including the capital Caracas were largely organized through social media. This follows comments by the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, Ulisses Correia that it “did well” in arresting Saab.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is promoting a “miracle” medication that he said neutralizes COVID-19 with no side effects, a claim doctors said was not backed by science.

Maduro on Sunday presented the drug Carvativir, an oral solution he said was tested on patients in a Caracas hospital and a sports center used as an emergency medical facility.

CARACAS, Jan 25 (NNN-TELESUR) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro denounced a terrorist attack aimed at disrupting gas supplies in the northern department of Anzoategui.

Maduro informed that the sabotage was carried out by unknown individuals in a gas pipeline section of the Anaco-Jose Industrial Complex.

The terrorist attack caused a massive fire controlled by the pipeline’s workers, who managed to close the valves to prevent a leak.

Although no human deaths were reported, two people were injured with minor burns treated at Jose Complex’s Industrial Clinic.

CARACAS, Jan 24 (NNN-TELESUR) — The Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza announced that his country will send oxygen tanks to the Brazilian city Manaus every week.

“We are establishing an agreement so that 80,000 more kilos, five gondolas, can arrive every seven days in Manaus (Brazil),” Arreaza said during a televised interview.

CARACAS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government rejected a recent decision by a U.S. judge, which authorized the sale of shares of Citgo, a subsidiary of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), calling it "procedural fraud."

"Venezuela denounces and deeply rejects the actions of the government of Donald Trump, in complicity with a stronghold of Venezuelan extremists who, acting in collusion, have committed transnational crimes in order to appropriate assets from Venezuela and its entities throughout the world," the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

08 Jan 2021; MEMO: An Iranian ship arrived at the Venezuelan port of La Guaira on Thursday, according to Refinitiv Eikon data, in what appeared to be a continuation of the commercial alliance between the two countries targeted by US sanctions, Reuters reports.