Venezuela’s Supreme Court has overturned two of its own rulings that limited legislators’ immunity and stripped the National Assembly of its powers. President Maduro had urged the Supreme Court to deal severely with the rebel National Assembly, where the opposition has a large majority, but then realized that it may have gone too far.
Read MoreLenin Moreno, a socialist, and Jorge Glas, Ecuador’s current vice president, form the ticket supported by the governing Alianza País movement, which proposes a continuity of the policies implemented in 10 years of the administration of President Rafael Correa. Guillermo Lasso, a conservative, and Andres Paez, a Social Democrat, are the formula supported by right-wing groups, which advocate major change in all orders in the Andean country.
Read MoreVenezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz said today that the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to take over the functions of the National Assembly represents a constitutional rupture.
Read MoreEdgardo Lander: “I personally believe that the majority of the problems we find ourselves facing today in Venezuela are problems which were building up under Chavez’s government.”
Read MoreThe Venezuelan National Assembly called the Supreme Court decision to assume legislative functions and grant President Nicolas Maduro “all powers”, as if were a king, the equivalent of a coup in the oil rich country.
Read MoreTwenty countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) called today at an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Council of that forum to seek ways “in the shortest possible time” to help solve the political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Read MoreBolivian President Evo Morales will travel to Cuba on Wednesday to undergo surgery on his throat, health minister Ariana Campero said on Thursday in La Paz.
Read MoreVenezuela is experiencing a crisis which has forced its inhabitants to rethink the way they spend money in their own country in recent years. Amid new conditions, having access to basic goods which used to form part of their daily lives before, such as food, sports events and even safe sex, has become a luxury and among the less fortunate, a distant memory.
Read MoreAlmagro’s Double Standards with Venezuela and Nicaragua. Accuses Maduro of violating the Inter-American Diplomatic Charter, while praising agreement with Ortega
Read MoreThe international community hems and haws about how to exert more effective pressure and collective sanctions on the ever more authoritarian Venezuelan regime. The democratic opposition can’t seem to unite around a common strategy to force the government back on the democratic and electoral path. Meanwhile, the regime of Nicolas Maduro, entrenched in power and corruption, dedicates itself to smothering Venezuelan civil society even further.
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