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6 January – Venezuela breaks off diplomatic relations with Paraguay after the latter's president Santiago Peña recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela. [ 3 ] 9 January – Opposition leader María Corina Machado is arrested by government security forces after leaving a rally in Caracas .
The 2024–2025 Venezuelan political crisis is the ongoing crisis in Venezuela that was aggravated after the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election results were announced. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The 2024 election was held to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025.
Parliamentary elections are due to be held in Venezuela on 25 May 2025 to elect the 277 deputies of the National Assembly. [1] The elections are set to take place during the ongoing political crisis within the country, and are not expected to be free or fair.
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. [2] [3] The election was contentious, with international monitors calling it neither free nor fair, [4] citing the incumbent Maduro administration's having controlled most institutions and repressed the political opposition before, during, [2] [5] and after the ...
Within the framework of the crisis in Venezuela, an intervention was raised in 2017 to Donald Trump's advisors, including US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson and the national security advisor, H. R. McMaster (who left the Trump administration from that moment on) and later to several presidents of Latin American countries, among those, Juan Manuel Santos. [1]
Within Venezuela and in cities across the world, Venezuelans demonstrated on 17 August in support of the opposition's claim to González's election win. [70] Machado had called for the rally—the Great World Protest for the Truth (Gran Protesta Mundial por la Verdad) [ 71 ] —to demonstrate "respect for popular sovereignty" and reinforce the ...
January 4 – Canadian company New Stratus Energy Inc. bought a 50% indirect stake in GoldPillar International Fund SPC Ltd., a private fund from the British Virgin Islands, which went on to acquire a 40% equity stake in the company joint venture Petrolera Vencupet S.A., which owns the production rights to the Adas, Lido, Limón, Leona, Oficina Norte and Oficina Central fields, all located in ...
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. [1] [2] President Nicolás Maduro ran for a third consecutive term, while former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia represented the Unitary Platform (Spanish: Plataforma Unitaria Democrática; PUD), the main opposition political alliance.