Guaidó is received with honors in Paraguay and Argentina. Colombia and the Lima Group pledge to support him in his return to Venezuela. State censorship and journalist detentions continue. OAS holds forum about corruption in Venezuela. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned six security officers involved in obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid on February 23rd.
Jair Bolsonaro and Juan Guaidó offer joint press conference. The IACHR urges the Venezuelan State to guarantee the safety of Guaidó and his family and issues protective measures for the Pemon community. The forced Venezuelan migration continues. Guaidó will meet Paraguay's Mario Abdo this Friday. Five U.S. senators introduce bill to grant Venezuelans Temporary Protected Status.
Guaidó announced that he’ll return from Colombia this week. Elliott Abrams called on other countries to stand in solidarity with Venezuelans. Arreaza lied at the UN Security Council and Cabello also lied about the number of officers who have crossed the border to Colombia. The black market dollar stands at Bs. 3,600, which means the minimum wage is now $5.
Venezuelans stranded on the other side of the closed Colombian border are torn between the desire to see their families again, and fear of regime violence.
Guaidó met with the Lima Group on Monday in Colombia. Univision’s Jorge Ramos was detained during an interview in Miraflores Palace for showing Maduro a video of people eating from the garbage. South Korea recognized Guaidó. There's no support for military intervention in the region. A UN Security Council meeting is to take place this Tuesday 26th.
Imagine that many kids are so sick with tropical diseases in private academies in Miami or Toronto that they lose months of lessons. Imagine that public schools in Brooklyn or downtown Montreal are workin
Caretaker President Juan Guaidó is in Bogota for a Lima Group meeting. What chavismo did to humanitarian aid trucks is only a sample of what they’re willing to do, according to Delcy. Mike Pompeo says all options are still on the table and the various nations as well as the EU only support peaceful initiatives.
While the push for getting the aid into the country faced military and paramilitary violence in three of our borders, at former chavista strongholds people demand a change, now. This is the second entry of Camille’s motorcycle diaries, a series of dispatches on mototaxi from Caracas.
The battle for humanitarian aid at the Venezuela-Colombia border affected people on both sides, physically and spiritually. Anger, frustration, chaos and a glimmer of hope, this is what we saw from the field.
14 people were murdered 287 were wounded on Saturday 23rd. Maduro just wants to see the country burn and dance the human rights violations away. Venezuelan journalists and foreign correspondents were attacked and robbed like never before. Guaidó announced he'll attend the Lima Group meeting in Bogota on Monday 25th.
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