The Canadian government has decided to ban the Venezuelan ambassador. The countries are at odds with each other about the human rights situation in Venezuela. 'Canada does not remain on the sidelines while the Venezuelan government deprives its people of fundamental democratic and human rights,' said Minister Chrystia Freeland (Foreign Affairs).
The Court of Appeal of San Francisco ruled Friday that the last entry ban of President Donald Trump should not apply to people who have a strong relationship with the United States.
The Venezuelan airline Avior Airlines is no longer allowed to fly in European airspace. The company has been put on the list of unsafe companies, the European Commission announced.
Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma Díaz arrived Saturday in Spain. The ex-mayor of Caracas had fled to Colombia from his home country a day earlier. He then boarded the plane to Europe.
An important opposition leader in Venezuela, former mayor of the capital Caracas Antonio Ledezma, fled the country on Friday. Colombian and Venezuelan media reported that he crossed the border to the Colombian town of Cúcuta.
The European Union prohibits the supply of weapons to Venezuela, as well as other items that can be used to suppress the population. The EU Foreign Ministers will also launch preparations for a travel ban and freezing bank deposits for Venezuelan human rights abuses on Monday in Brussels.
The United States has imposed another ten Venezuelan top officials sanctions. These include ministers and the Venezuelan ambassador in Italy.
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The Curaçao ex-minister George Jamaloodin may be handed over. The Supreme Court of Venezuela has approved the extradition request, the Public Prosecutor said on Curaçao.
President Maduro's Socialist Party won the Venezuela regional elections. According to the government-elected constituency, the government party in 17 of the 23 Länder was the strongest. The Venezuelan opposition dispute the outcome and calls for street protests.
The US Supreme Court is not handling the appeal against President Donald Trump's ban on entry for the time being. On October 10, a meeting was scheduled to hear the arguments of the parties involved. She has been asked to make a new decision now that the government has come up with a modified third version.
The US government is going to expand the controversial entry ban further. Citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad will also be subject to restrictions when traveling to the United States. Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia remain on the list.
The Venezuela government and the opposition are meeting on Wednesday in the Dominican Republic. That has been announced by the French Foreign Minister on Tuesday. He threatened the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with sanctions if he did not participate in the negotiations.
The Venezuelan opposition invoked the help of Pope Franciscus to put an end to the serious political and economic crisis in the country. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church should urge the Socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro to accept humanitarian assistance and respect for human rights.
Despite the new sanctions imposed by Venezuela on Venezuela, the South American country has made $ 5 million (4.2 million) available to help victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
The United Nations Human Rights Director has taken hard to Venezuela.
US President Donald Trump signed a decree on Friday banning trade in Venezuelan debt securities.
The government of Maduro has undermined the news supply in Venezuela. The controversial leftist regime decided to remove the Colombian radio and television stations Caracol and RCN. On Thursday morning, the channels on all major cable networks in the capital of Caracas went to black.
The dismissed Attorney General of Venezuela Luisa Ortega said Wednesday at a meeting of South American lawyers in Brasilia to prove that President Nicolás Maduro has been involved in the corruption scandal surrounding the Odebrecht conglomerate. Apart from Maduro, Diosdado Cabello and Jorge Rodriguez, other headlines of the Venezuelan Socialist Party, are also blamed.
The former Attorney General of Venezuela Luisa Ortega has traveled to Brazil. That has been announced by the Colombian immigration service on Tuesday. Ortega, a declared opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, fled in friday from her husband via Aruba to Colombia. The prosecutor stated that her life was no longer safe in Venezuela.
Venezuela's former public prosecutor Luisa Ortega went on a safe visit in Colombia on Friday.
At a prison robber in Puerto Ayacucho in southern Venezuela, at least 37 detainees have died.
US Vice-President Mike Pence traveled hard to Venezuela during his visit to South America on Monday. He called the country 'a failed state which is a threat to the United States. But we will prevent Venezuela from slipping into a dictatorship. We will remove all economic and diplomatic power in order to restore democracy in the country. '
Important South American countries are opposed to military intervention in Venezuela. The Mercosur organization, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay as members, said Saturday that dialogue and diplomacy were 'the only acceptable means' to promote democracy in Venezuela.
US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was taking military action as one of the options to address the political crisis in Venezuela.
Venezuelan soldiers seem to have settled the Parliament building in Caracas. Opposition leader Stalin González said Tuesday that soldiers stopped him when he wanted to enter the building.
The Venezuelan government has held a military uprising in the center of the Venezuelan city of Valencia on Sunday. Twenty-one commanders led by an old captain tried to oppose the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The uprising failed.
The South American Economic Cooperation Mercosur has suspended Venezuela as a member on Saturday.
CARACAS (ANP)- The controversial 'constitutional meeting' called for by the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for amendments to the political order, was met for the first time on Friday. The 545 members gathered in the parliament building. They went there with images of the founder of the republic, Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), and left-wing populist president Hugo Chávez (1954-2013).
The Argentinian Pope Franciscus has summoned a Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, in a remarkably politically-charged message, on Friday to resign from his 'constitutional assembly'.
