Fishing for Venezuelan Voters in Argentina
With a crack appearing in the Maduro-friendly ruling alliance, the local opposition panders to Venezuelan born voters
With a crack appearing in the Maduro-friendly ruling alliance, the local opposition panders to Venezuelan born voters
Here's an extract of our analysis in Friday's Political Risk Report. What kind of leverage can the opposition get from the information that Alex Saab, Hugo Carvajal, and Rafael Ramírez have?
89% of labs in Venezuela aren’t working, said the president of the Federación de Colegios de Bioanalistas, Judith León. She also said that over 70% of bioanalysts in public institutions have resigned because of the poor conditions.
Primero Justicia proposed an independent board in charge of managing Venezuelan assets abroad, meaning Monómeros. They questioned that Voluntad Popular insists on political organizations part of the Unitary Platform managing these assets.
Jorge Rodríguez announced that the regime decided to incorporate Álex Saab into the negotiation. Saab was detained in 2020 in Cape Verde due to charges imposed by the United States for money laundering. The opposition delegation expressed its dissatisfaction with the incorporation through a statement.
Michelle Bachelet presented a summary of the latest report of her office on Venezuela: she highlighted her concern about the criminalization of human rights defenders and union leaders in the country, the need to lift sanctions and how the pandemic has worsened the humanitarian emergency.
Luisa Kislinger was working at the UN when the terrorist attack in New York happened. She was one of the last in the office when she answered a call: a Venezuelan mother was looking for help to find her son
The UN said that 5.7 million Venezuelans have left the country. 37 organizations choose their spots on the ballot for the November elections. August had a 10.6% inflation rate.
Architect Valeria Escobar began to compose a sound map of Caracas because she missed its birds. Now we can all contribute to it
The constant sale of gold bars is the regime’s attempt to obtain some liquidity but they don’t report that they’re using this money. There were 167 violations of journalistic work in Venezuela in 2020, affecting at least 208 press workers.
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