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.
The World Food Programme announced the agreement to start operating in the country, with children in the most vulnerable sectors being the priority. In this phase, the WFP will provide meals to kids in schools, will invest in rehabilitating cafeterias, and will provide the personnel with food safety practices. They hope to provide meals for 185,000 children by the end of the year and they’ll work to reach 1.5 million children by the end of the 2022-2023 school year.
Maduro’s regime wants to create a registry forcing human rights NGOs to hand over all the information on their donors and beneficiaries, obviously including the names of people denouncing state officers and those who benefit from educational programs.
Juan Guaidó said that the caretaker government is willing to provide more resources in order to access more doses of the vaccine. NGOs must now register before the Office Against Organized Crime and Terrorist Financing. This rule forces NGOs to give their lists of donors and beneficiaries to the government.
The Venezuelan Observatory of Finance published its first report on the Workers’ Salaries Index. The percentage of salaries paid in dollars went from 17.4% in 2020 to 46% in 2021. Union leader Mauro Zambrano said that sanitary personnel in 17 hospitals have been threatened for speaking openly about their inadequate working conditions.
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