Venezuelan

Several dead in operation to arrest Venezuela pilot:

Caracas - Muslimchronicle

Several people, including two police officers, were killed in an operation to capture a Venezuelan helicopter pilot who dropped grenades on the Supreme Court last year during anti-government protests, the interior ministry said Monday. A ministry statement said members of a "terrorist cell" were killed, and five were captured in the operation, but did not say whether the pilot, OscarRead more

Venezuela opposition leader flees to Spain

CARACAS - Muslimchronicle

Veteran Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma, under house arrest since 2015 for alleged coup plotting, escaped across the border to Colombia on Friday and later flew to Spain. With a 2018 presidential election looming, an array of major Venezuelan opposition figures are now in exile, detention or are barred from holding office. They say Maduro has turned Venezuela into aRead more

Venezuela opposition leader Freddy Guevara seeks refuge in Chile ambassador's residence

Caracas - Muslimchronicle

Prominent Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Freddy Guevara has sought refuge in the Chilean ambassador's residence in Caracas after authorities sought to remove his congressional immunity so that he could be tried for instigating violence. Guevara, a 31 year-old who runs the hardline Popular Will party and is also the deputy leader of congress, entered the residence on Saturday and requested protection,Read more

Likely successor to Cuba's Castro rejects U.S. demands for change

Havana - Muslimchronicle

The man forecast to replace Cuban President Raul Castro early next year rejected U.S. demands that the Communist-run country change its political and economic system. In a Sunday speech blasting U.S. pressure on the Venezuelan government and what he termed an effort to discredit the Cuban tourism industry, First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel said these and other recent events inRead more

One week on, jittery Mexico far from coming

Mexico - Muslimchronicle

A week after an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, thousands of Mexicans were still unable to return Tuesday to their badly damaged homes, much less their normal lives. After a week of eerie quiet in Mexico City, the capital's notorious traffic jams were visible again as the sprawling city of 20 million people began returning to work andRead more

UN rights chief 'deeply concerned' by Venezuela opposition arrests

Geneva - Muslimchronicle

The United Nations human rights chief said Tuesday he was "deeply concerned" by the re-arrest of two Venezuelan opposition leaders, urging Caracas to release anyone detained for exercising basic democratic rights. "I am deeply concerned that opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma have again been taken into custody by Venezuelan authorities," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, ZeidRead more

Caracas - Muslimchronicle

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dismissed US economic sanctions imposed Wednesday against 13 current and former officials of his country as insolent. The punishment by the Treasury Department is in retaliation for Maduro's plans to go ahead with a vote this weekend for an assembly that would rewrite the constitution. Maduro called the sanctions "illegal, insolent and unprecedented." "Who do theseRead more

Venezuela opposition vows fresh protests despite deaths

Caracas - Arab Today

Opponents of the Venezuelan government vowed fresh huge protests on Thursday, upping the ante in their bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro after a day of deadly clashes in the oil-rich but beleaguered nation. A 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old woman died after being shot Wednesday during massive protests, and a soldier outside Caracas was said to have been killed,Read more

Venezuelan President Vows to Solve Row between Supreme Court and Congress

Caracas - Arab Today

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on the country's Supreme Court on Saturday to review a decision stripping Congress of its legislative powers. The court ruled to annul the opposition-led Congress set off a storm of criticism from the opposition and foreign governments. Maduro said in a midnight address on state television that the conflict between the Supreme Court and NationalRead more