The new National Electoral Council (CNE) authorities started working yesterday. Abraham Edgardo Ortega, former PDVSA executive director of financial planning was sentenced to two years and four months in prison, after admitting that he accepted over 12 million dollars in bribes
Maduro’s National Assembly selected and swore in new CNE authorities. Roberto Picón Hernández, former electoral advisor of the opposition and former political prisoner, was appointed as one of the 5 Main Rectors
There were 74 violations of freedom of expression during the first four months of the year. Maduro’s Culture minister, Ernesto Villegas, excused his previous story about the murder of Juan Pablo Pernalete in 2017. flood destroyed a Venezuelan and Haitian refugee camp in Manaos, Brazil.
Tarek William Saab reported he’s opening investigations against several people from the entertainment industry. The fact that political persecution is being used as a consequence of an agenda that needs more institutionality is very serious.
CECODAP demanded authorities investigate the accusations that have multiplied during the last few days on social media, about alleged acts of sexual abuse and harassment against women and teenagers perpetrated by adults in the cultural and entertainment industries.
The Delegate Commission said that the only institution that can appoint a new National Electoral Council (CNE) is the legitimate National Assembly, so they won’t recognize the board of authorities that Maduro’s Assembly will appoint in the next few days.
The Armed Forces issued a press release to admit they’ve been facing combat with irregular groups in Apure. The document isn’t specific and doesn’t provide the amount or the names dead officers.
On Thursday, PNB officers did a police operation in El Valle and El Cementerio to find criminals controlling the sector. When the failed operation ended, El Coqui’s gang started shooting at the police from the area above the La Planicie tunnel.
Representatives of 22 countries met in Andorra for the 27th Ibero-American Summit, where they questioned Delcy Rodríguez’s presence and they called Maduro’s regime a dictatorship that violates human rights.
Reporters Without Borders published its report on the press freedom situation in 180 countries. Venezuela ranked 148th. Manuel Isidro Molina, general director of Radio Rumbos, a radio station that had been broadcasting for 71 uninterrupted years, read a ruling by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice establishing that the station now belongs to banker Pedro Torres Ciliberto.
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