President Donald Trump has admitted that there is no evidence for his claim that Middle Eastern terrorists are among the migrants moving from Honduras towards the American border. However, he accused Venezuela and not named 'leftist groups' of encouraging the so-called caravan.
In Venezuela, 34 managers of supermarkets have been arrested because they are suspected of hiding food and increasing prices. That's what President Nicolás Maduro has said.
The area in Colombia where coca plants are grown has never been so great. According to a report published by the United Nations on Wednesday), the area in the South American country grew by 17 percent in 2017 to 2,170 square kilometers, which is approximately the area of the Dutch province of Limburg. This corresponds to a potential coca leaf harvest from which almost 1400 tonnes of cocaine can be extracted.
The government of Curaçao denies refugee Venezuelans the international right to protection. That is what Amnesty International says in a report published on Monday.
The fence is from the dam in South America. Distraught refugees from Venezuela flood their neighbors. Ecuador and Peru increase the requirements for entrants. Care providers fear only more illegal border crossings.
The Brazilian president Michel Temer has been hard-pressed to the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Temer voiced his criticism because of the exodus of refugees from Venezuela that leads to an immigration crisis on the borders of neighboring countries.
The coins of Argentina, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela are under heavy pressure this summer. In addition to domestic problems, these countries also suffer from the trend that investors move their capital to the United States because interest has risen there.
The Ecuadorian government creates a humanitarian corridor for refugees from Venezuela. Through this corridor, the refugees are taken to the border with Peru by buses. Many Venezuelans try to travel on foot through the Andes country to Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
The Brazilian government is sending military personnel to the border town of Pacaraima, because there were confrontations between Brazilian residents and migrants from Venezuela on Saturday. The army reported that about 1200 Venezuelans fled to their own country after the riots, according to the Agencia Brasil news agency.
Residents of the northern Brazilian city of Pacaraima attacked a refugee camp on Saturday and set it on fire. In the camp about two thousand Venezuelan refugees, many of whom fled back, crossed the border.
Once he was 'the poorest president in the world' and even after his resignation as senator this week it is not a fat spot. José Mujica refuses a pension for the five years he was in the Senate after the same period as President of Uruguay.
The second longest bridge in South America, with the same design as the bridge collapsed in Genoa, has not been inspected for decades.
Rescue workers in Genoa fear that the pieces of suspension bridge that are still standing, will also fail. They have indicated that buildings in the vicinity of the bridge are being evacuated.
Ecuador has declared a state of emergency because of the unusually large number of Venezuelan migrants crossing the northern border with Colombia. The Venezuelans flee their country because of the economic crisis.
The Venezuelan secret service has arrested a politician of the opposition after the alleged attack on President Maduro. This is reported by the opposition party Primero Justicia (Justice First), who states that parliamentarian Juan Requesens and his sister Rafaela were 'kidnapped' by a group of agents at night.
During a speech by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, several drones with explosives detonated on Saturday night. According to the Venezuelan Minister of Information Jorge Rodriguez, it was an attack against the president. Seven soldiers of the national guard were injured. Maduro himself remained unharmed.
The 47-year-old Burney F. from Curaçao was sentenced on Friday to a 26-year prison sentence for involvement in the murder of politician Helmin Wiels. According to the court, F. acted as 'murderer' in the murder.
An isolated Indian tribe in the Amazon forest has been hit by an outbreak of measles. 23 members of the Yanomamö are admitted to the hospital and hundreds more are threatened by the highly contagious virus, CNN reports.
It was another week of lows for Venezuela. The economy continues to deteriorate, Venezuelans flee the country en masse and those who still live there have lost some liberties, such as being able to surf the internet anonymously.
The European Union imposes sanctions on eleven high-ranking Venezuelans in response to the unfair elections in which President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected last month. They are considered guilty of undermining democracy and human rights violations.
The oil sector represents the largest decrease in production capacity in thirty years. The buffer held by Opec countries is threatening to drop to 2% due to high demand, the bottom since 1984. In conflicts or production constraints, there is not much of a price increase.
Political prisoners were again released in Venezuela. The group of forty men was set free by President Nicolás Maduro as a kind of peace gesture, after Friday already 39 political opponents were allowed to leave the prison.
American missionary Josh Holt, who was released by Venezuela, was welcomed to the White House on Saturday by US President Donald Trump. Holt returned to the US with his wife.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called the new sanctions that the US imposed on his country an affront to national dignity. According to Madura, the sanctions cause his people to suffer.
The Netherlands does not recognize the elections in Venezuela, where the leftist president Nicolás Maduro was re-elected this weekend. 'They were not free and independent elections,' said minister Stef Blok of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in the House of Representatives.
US President Donald Trump launched new sanctions against Venezuela on Monday. The measures come one day after the presidential elections in the Central American country, where the incumbent president Nicolás Maduro was re-elected. The US does not recognize the result.
Nicolás Maduro remains, as already predicted, the president of Venezuela for the next six years. This was announced by the election committee of the country. The incumbent president received 5.8 million votes (67 percent). His main opponent Henri Falcón had to do with 1.8 million votes (21 percent).
Even before the final result of the Venezuelan presidential election is known, the US has stated that it does not recognize the outcome. That said the Deputy Foreign Secretary John Sullivan.
Venezuela has accused the United States of sabotaging Sunday's presidential election. The US has imposed new sanctions against senior members of the ruling Socialist Party. The Venezuelan opposition says that the elections were manipulated by the government of Socialist President Nicolas Maduro in order to achieve a great victory.
Venezuela goes to the polls Sunday to choose a president. All signs point to a re-election of the current head of state, Nicolás Maduro.
