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.
Human Rights Watch called Venezuela one of the dictatorships that solidified their power in 2020 and that are “stronger than ever”. Five humanitarian workers of NGO Azul Positivo were arbitrarily arrested and isolated this week.
Maduro’s accountability speech at the AN proposed new and unreliable economic solutions to hyperinflation, and also denied the rise of poverty, food insecurity, and lack of production in the country. Attacks against independent media continue, and humanitarian workers in Zulia were detained.
Human rights activist Vannessa Rosales will be in house arrest for helping a 13-year-old rape victim have an abortion. Family members have denounced the executions of at least 23 people in La Vega. The SIP condemned Maduro’s regime's new wave of aggression and attacks against the media.
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