CARACAS – Venezuela temporarily suspended the sale of U.S. dollars through its Dicom auction system, following an announcement last week that it was moving away from the greenback in response to U.S. sanctions. The United […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff CARACAS – Venezuela’s Minister for Exterior Jorge Arreaza has accused the U.N. Office for Human Rights on Monday of bringing false charges of human rights violations against his country, “without […]
CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced his government will sell oil and other commodities in currencies other than the dollar, in a bid to weather U.S. sanctions on the embattled South American country. […]
WASHINGTON/CARACAS – U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new sanctions on Venezuela Friday, labeling President Nicolas Maduro a “dictator”. Under the new sanctions, U.S. banks are now barred from “dealings in new debt and equity issued […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff CARACAS – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has requested Pope Francis to intercede diplomatically on his behalf in order to prevent Donald Trump from sending U.S. troops into the South American […]
SANTIAGO – Chile has granted diplomatic asylum to four judges and an opposition politician from Venezuela who took refuge in its embassy in Caracas, amid political turmoil as President Nicolas Maduro moves to consolidate power. […]
MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday criticized the idea of any intervention, including military, in the Venezuela crisis, stressing the need to resolve the crisis in Venezuela peacefully. “We are united in […]
CARACAS – Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA has reduced crude sales to its U.S. refining unit Citgo Petroleum while increasing supply to Russia’s Rosneft, following a plan signed in May to catch up on overdue deliveries, according […]
BUENOS AIRES – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence heard more complaints from Latin American allies on Tuesday about President Donald Trump’s warning of a possible military option to deal with Venezuela crisis. “The use of […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose “strong and swift” economic sanctions on Venezuela if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with plans to create a super-legislature known as a Constituent Assembly in […]
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