Bulgaria is investigating suspicious transfers worth millions of dollars from Venezuela’s state oil company, the head of the Bulgarian secret service, Dimitar Georgiev. The transfers in question were made to a trust account with a Bulgarian bank, with orders for further transfers to other countries, reported dpa news.
Read MorePrince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will make the first official visit to Cuba by the British royal family next month, the prince’s office said on Friday. The Communist Party/Government and is no-doubt already planning for the occasion.
Read MoreThe US Treasury Department on Friday announced new sanctions on Venezuelan intelligence and other officials close to President Nicolas Maduro. “We are intent on going after those facilitating Maduro’s corruption and predation, including by sanctioning the president of PDVSA,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Read MoreBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday left hospital after a 17-day stay, during which he suffered complications following surgery, reported dpa. The 63-year-old was discharged with a “normalized” lung condition and restored bowel function.
Read MoreEnrique Krauze is excited to talk about Nicaragua. He states that it touches on a topic that was “very important” in his life because, he says, he openly supported the Sandinista Popular Revolution, the guerrilla movement widely supported by society that ended in July 1979 with the tyranny of the bloody Somoza legacy.
Read MoreSolar panels shine on the rooftop terraces of 10 neat buildings with perfectly straight lines and of uniform height, an image of modernity that contrasts with the precariously-built dwellings with unplastered concrete block walls just a few meters away, with rooms added in a disorderly manner, surrounded by a tangle of electric cables.
Read MoreVenezuelans around the country took to the streets on Tuesday hoping to turn up the heat on beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro and persuade the army to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid blocked behind the Colombian border.
Read MoreThe United States and Russia have proposed opposing draft resolutions at the UN Security Council as the leadership crisis in Venezuela deepens, reports Democracy Now on Monday. The US is calling for elections in Venezuela and for international aid deliveries to be allowed to enter the country. Russia criticizes foreign intervention in Venezuelan affairs.
Read MoreUS sanctions to Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), that already include Alba of Nicaragua (Albanisa), have also reached the Banco Corporativo SA (Bancorp) and all majority-owned subsidiaries, announced the Deputy Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Affairs, Kimberly Breier on Friday, Feb. 8th.
Read MoreThe battle over aid supplies to crisis-hit Venezuela was about saving lives, the country’s self-declared interim president Juan Guaido said on Sunday. The other president, Nicolas Maduro, has made it clear he will not let the aid through, dismissing it as a plot to stage a US military intervention in Venezuela. He also denies any humanitarian crisis.
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