UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan arrived to evaluate the impact of sanctions on human rights; the opposition hasn’t agreed on the composition of the Political Council that will restructure the caretaker presidency; Garzón’s lawyer denied his client had committed the crimes, spoke ill about the victim and revealed her identity, which had been kept anonymous to preserve her integrity.
Jacqueline Faría was fired; there was a clash between rival gangs in la Cota 905; Sudeban forbade banks issuing credits in foreign currency; Maduro’s AN approved the change of the internal debate rules.
José Brito went to the General Prosecutor’s Office to investigate 35 opposition deputies from the AN elected in 2015 and is accusing them of corruption; the Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic said that his country no longer recognizes the Assembly elected in 2015; The Venezuelan Embassy in the U.S. opened an online census for Venezuelan migrants who want to apply for the DED.
Maduro's Assembly wants to detain Guaidó; every speech from Maduro is now a mandatory broadcast; PDVSA paralyzed El Palito and Cardón refineries; Maduro was upset because YouTube censored VTV’s account because they posted about their medicine, Carvativir.
Banks started selling dollars and euros online; between 2015 and 2019 there were 14 deaths of human rights workers in Venezuela; a group of Venezuelan prisoners in Curaçao started a hunger strike to denounce their conditions.
The European Parliament reiterated on Thursday they recognize Juan Guaidó as caretaker president and exhorted member States to recognize the continuity of the National Assembly elected in 2015.
Consulting firm Anova presented “new evidence” to prove the effect of sanctions; Maduro’s National Assembly subpoenaed Juan Guaidó; The World Organization Against Torture demanded the release of five workers of NGO Azul Positivo.
OFAC issued new sanctions on three businessmen, 14 companies and six oil tankers, accused of assisting PDVSA in evading U.S. sanctions; Amnesty International designated five workers of NGO Azul Positivo as prisoners of conscience.
Sanctions on Alex Saab and on his company haven’t been an obstacle in his line of work in the clandestine circuit of oil exports. Swiss prosecutors found bank accounts with over 9,000 million francs or around 10.1 billion dollars, that would allegedly be embezzled Venezuelan public funds.
More attacks against humanitarian workers, NGOs and media in Venezuela; Maduro's Assembly created a commission of "peace and reconciliation; Oil analysts estimate that 2020 was the worst year in the history of Venezuelan oil.
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