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The opposition National Assembly approved a statement "to disavow the alleged results (...) and especially the alleged election of Nicolás Maduro Moros as President of the Republic, who must be considered as a usurper" [234] The European Union, [235] [236] the Organization of American States, the Lima Group and nations including Australia and ...
Maduro was sworn in for his third term on 10 January 2025. [22] Maduro heads an authoritarian government, and has been described as an autocrat and a dictator. [c] [23] [24] [25] Between 2013 and 2023, Venezuela dropped 42 places in the Press Freedom Index. [26]
Venezuelan exiles living across Florida have voted for change in their homeland in past elections — only to see the regime in Caracas, tightly controlled by socialist leader Nicolas Maduro ...
In September 2020, Figuera denounced Maduro, claiming that the PCV was being disproportionately attacked by Maduro's government. [4] In August 2023 the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice intervened to declare pro-Maduro communist Henry Parra the de jure President of the PCV, resulting in outcry from the increasingly anti-Maduro PCV under ...
Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch, [19] and the Human Rights Foundation [20] called for the OAS to invoke the Democratic Charter. After more controversies and pursuing a recall on Maduro, on 2 May 2016, opposition members of the National Assembly met with OAS officials to ask for the body to implement the Democratic Charter ...
Maduro was later formally inaugurated as President on 19 April, after the election commission had promised a full audit of the election results. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On 24 October 2013, he announced the creation of a new agency, the Vice Ministry of Supreme Happiness, to coordinate all the social programmes.
Five U.S. companies in Florida and an airplane registered in the U.S. were also blocked. [25] [26] The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Maikel Moreno and seven members of the Venezuelan Supreme Justice Tribunal (TSJ) in May for usurping the functions of the Venezuelan National Assembly and permitting Maduro to govern by decree. [27] [28]
Two nuclear weapon-capable Russian planes landed in Venezuela in December 2018 in what Reuters called a "show of support for Maduro's socialist government." [ 394 ] According to the Kremlin, there are about 100 Russian military personnel in Venezuela "to repair equipment and provide technical co-operation". [ 395 ]