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Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the local United Nations office on human rights to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of assisting coup plotters and ...
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. [2] [3] The election was contentious, with international monitors calling it neither free nor fair, [4] citing the incumbent Maduro administration having controlled most institutions and repressed the political opposition before, during, [2] [5] and after the ...
Maduro also blamed the United States government, businessman Elon Musk and the UN commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, for wanting to "destabilize the country and take over Venezuela." [ 157 ] [ 158 ] Maduro and the government accuse the Venezuelan opposition, represented by María Corina Machado , of being "fascist and criminal" [ 159 ...
[217] [218] On 20 March, Bachelet delivered a preliminary oral report before the UN Human Rights Council, [219] [220] in which she outlined a "devastating and deteriorating" human rights situation in Venezuela, expressed concern that sanctions would worsen the situation, and called on authorities to show a true commitment to recognizing and ...
Michelle Bachelet in 2020.. The Bachelet report is the name given from the press to reports presented between 2019 and 2022 by then-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on the situation of the human rights in Venezuela, which was endorsed later by the United Nations Human Rights Council and opened the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela.
Venezuelan opposition march in the city of Caracas (12 February 2014).. The protests in Venezuela — also called by the opposition as 12F and La Salida— [15] [16] are a series of demonstrations against the socialist government of Venezuela headed by President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, which started on 12 February 2014, called by the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition María Corina ...
25 March – Gladys Castillo, 98, pediatrician, First Lady of Venezuela (1984–1988). [32] 31 March – Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles, 76, politician, first mayor of the Baruta. [33] 5 April – Henry Stephen, 79, singer; complications from COVID-19. [34] 9 April Daniel Benítez, 33, footballer (Deportivo Táchira, Deportivo La Guaira); cancer ...
Venezuela retired from TIAR in 2013; Deputy Francisco Sucre stated that Chávez had removed Venezuela from the pact in a "strategy to isolate Venezuela by a totalitarian system mirroring [Cuba]". [54] Venezuela's reincorporation to the pact "can be used to request military assistance against foreign troops inside the country". [54]