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Buenos Aires (AFP) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lashed out at his Argentine counterpart Thursday, three days after the United States completed the seizure of a Venezuelan plane held in Buenos Aires since June 2022. "They stole our plane... Milei the bandit stole the plane from Venezuela. Javier Milei, the hero of the extreme right," Maduro said in a televised statement about the Argentine president. "He acts crazy or he is crazy or both at the same time," he added. The Boeing 747 cargo plane owned by Venezuelan company Emtrasur has been held in Argentina since landing there in 2022 fr...
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Caracas (AFP) - The United States said Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" about the detention of a human rights activist in Venezuela who stands accused of involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. The Spanish-Venezuelan lawyer and government critic Rocio San Miguel, 57, was detained on Friday in the immigration area of an airport in the capital Caracas. Her detention comes in a crunch election year that has already seen Maduro block his main opposition rival, prompting the United States to threaten to reimpose recently eased oil sanctions. San Miguel's defense tea...
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Arriaga (Mexico) (AFP) - A caravan in Mexico of at least 1,000 migrants resumed its march northward towards the US border on Monday, accusing Mexican authorities of failing to fulfill their promise of granting humanitarian visas. Carrying a banner that read "Exodus from poverty" and chanting "We are not criminals. We are international workers," the migrants set off at dawn from the town of Arriaga in the southern state of Chiapas. The same group of migrants had decided to disband a previous caravan that set off from Chiapas on Christmas Eve, after immigration officials agreed to address demand...
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San Antonio (AFP) - The United States released an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in exchange for 10 American detainees and a fugitive dubbed "Fat Leonard" in a sweeping prisoner swap deal Wednesday between the rival governments. US President Joe Biden made the "extremely difficult decision" to free Alex Saab, the onetime confidant of socialist leader Maduro, who is accused by the United States of money laundering for Caracas, US officials said. Venezuela in return handed over a fugitive named Leonard Francis, who was at the center of the US Navy's worst-ever corruption scandal, fr...
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Caracas (AFP) - A Guyanese army helicopter with seven people on board was reported missing Wednesday near the border with Venezuela, an official said, as tensions between the two neighbors soar over a disputed oil-rich territory. Guyanese Army Chief of Staff Omar Khan told a press conference that contact had been lost with the helicopter shortly after takeoff in bad weather, adding he had "no information to suggest that" Venezuela had been involved. The report of the missing aircraft added to a fast-escalating border feud over the oil-rich Essequibo region, controlled by Guyana for more than a...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House expressed concern Wednesday at mounting tensions between Venezuela and Guyana over a disputed, oil-rich border region, saying it wants them to avoid any "violence" or "conflict." "It's concerning, we're watching this very, very, very closely," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters when asked about the situation between the neighboring countries. "We obviously don't want to see any violence occur here or conflict occur." Venezuela held a controversial referendum on Sunday on the fate of the Essequibo region -- or Esequiba as it is known...
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Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan officials on Wednesday opened an investigation into alleged "irregularities" during an opposition primary, which was won last weekend by a candidate banned from holding office by President Nicolas Maduro's government. Tarek William Saab, Maduro's attorney general, described the primary as "obviously a fraud" and told journalists in Caracas he had tasked two prosecutors with the probe. The wide-ranging charges include usurping the functions of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), criminal conspiracy, making up fictitious voters, and money laundering. The CNE ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - When a dozen Latin American presidents and foreign ministers meet on Sunday in Mexico, they'll face a huge task: finding a solution to migration flows roiling two continents as people make their way to the United States. This year alone, 1.7 million migrants arrived at the Mexican-US border. Immigration is becoming a huge political issue in both nations, which each have presidential elections next year. September alone saw 60,000 migrants arrive in Mexico from Venezuela, along with 35,000 Guatemalans and 27,000 Hondurans, according to the Mexican government. "It is very dif...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States will ease some oil and gas sanctions against Venezuela after the South American country's government and opposition agreed to hold elections next year. In response to those "democratic developments," the US Treasury Department "has issued General Licenses authorizing transactions involving Venezuela's oil and gas sector and gold sector," and is "removing the ban on secondary trading" in debt securities, a statement from undersecretary for terrorism Brian Nelson said Wednesday. But it also said that those authorizations could be amended or revoked at any tim...
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Maiquetía (Venezuela) (AFP) - Some 130 Venezuelan migrants arrived back home Wednesday on a chartered plane from the United States on the first such deportation flight following an agreement between the two non-friendly governments. The flight from Texas arrived at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas, bearing adult men and women traveling alone, no families. "The individuals on this flight... range from those who have just entered our borders unlawfully to those that have been in the country a while and committed criminal acts," US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offic...
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