Q24N (Caracas Chronicles) When almost 300 Polish tourists arrived at Margarita’s airport recently, they were greeted with smiles and welcome drinks, presented with hats, and snapped by cameras. Since November, when a charter flight agreement between Venezuela and Poland began, there’s been a stream of pictures and videos published online by government officials and news sites showing the latest arrivals and highlighting the increase in visitors. Both the government –and those working within the tourism industry– say the number of international tourists has been rising. In 2023, 1.25 million f ..read more

Q24N (VOA) Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro ordered his country’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom (UK) sent a warship toward Guyana’s territorial waters. The two South American neighbors are locked in a dispute over a large border region. In a nationally televised address on Thursday, Maduro said that 6,000 Venezuelan troops, including air and naval forces, will conduct joint operations off the nation’s eastern coast near the border with Guyana. Maduro described the impending arrival of British ship HMS Trent to Guyana’s shores a ..read more

Q24N (VOA) Venezuela has turned up the volume on its insistence that it has a rightful claim to Essequibo, a region encompassing the majority of the territory of Guyana, its neighbor to the east. However, the government of President Nicolás Maduro has little to no support from its regional neighbors or intergovernmental organizations. View of Kaieteur, the world’s largest single drop waterfall, located in the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana. The falls are part of Essequibo, an oil-rich disputed area that is administered by Guyana but that Venezuelans claimed as theirs in a referendum. The Ven ..read more

Q24N — The Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) ordered this Monday to suspend the effects of the elections organized by the National Primary Commission on October 22, where candidate María Corina Machado was elected. María Corina Machado won an opposition primary by a wide margin. The representative of the Vente Venezuela party was chosen by opposition voters to be the rival of President Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 presidential elections. The country’s highest court – accused by the opposition of acting in favor of the government – admitted the appeal filed by t ..read more

Q24N – The National Association of Journalists of Venezuela (CNPVEN) denounced this Saturday that the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro closed 34 radio stations in recent months. Through its account on Twitter, it detailed the number of closures and the states where these abuses occurred. “The Maduro government continues to attack freedom of expression, the right to information and access to information in Venezuela. In recent months, at the National Association of Journalists we have been denouncing and observing with concern an escalation in the closure of radio stations that only in the month ..read more

Q24N –  The regime of Nicolás Maduro showed for the first time, during the military parade on July 5, the Iranian combat drones assembled in Venezuela. “The aerospace power is presented to you, headed by the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda No. 8 air group for intelligence, surveillance and electronic reconnaissance, with unmanned aerial systems of national design and manufacture,” boasted the narrator of the national television network. radio and television. An Iranian drone in flight at the Payambar-e Azam 17 military exercises, December 22, 2021. The drones that were originally known ..read more

Q24N – The Venezuelan economy has begun to reactivate. In supermarkets, which until recently had empty shelves, today you can find Pringles potatoes, Pantene shampoo and even Nutella. According to The New York Times, the reason for this change is the informal dollarization of the economy. The newspaper assures that around 70% of the transactions that are made in Venezuela today are in dollars, and almost all in cash. With dollars there is everything, but everything is expensive. The average salary in that country today is US$120 a month; At the time when the dollar could be converted into bol ..read more

Q24N – Delegations from the Venezuelan government and opposition resumed talks in Mexico City on Friday, with the two sides hoping to chart a joint path forward out of the country’s ongoing political crisis. The Mexico City negotiations could break Venezuela’s political impasse Neither Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro nor top opposition figure Juan Guaido is personally attending the Mexico talks. What do the two sides want? Maduro has called for the lifting of international sanctions and demanded the opposition recognize the authority of the government. The opposition, on the ..read more

Q24N (CARACAS) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that contacts between his government and the opposition led by Juan Guaido are going well, adding that the exact date and venue of negotiations will be decided in the coming days. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “As of this year, we have resumed the dialogue with the G4 [political parties Popular Will, Justice First, Democratic Action and A New Era], the opposition of Guaido. This dialogue has already resulted in a drawn-up document that is currently debating the agenda, there are seven topics on it. In the next few days the date ..read more

Q24N –  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the CIA and the US military agencies of planning to assassinate him, particularly wondering whether sitting US President Joe Biden has something to do with it. Nicolas Maduro “Did Joe Biden ratify Donald Trump’s orders to lead Venezuela into civil war and kill us? Yes or no? I ask,” Maduro stated during a speech at a military ceremony on Friday. “What did they do? Our sources in Colombia assure us […] that they have come to prepare a plan to attack my life and that of important political and military leaders […] Did President Joe Biden ..read more