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Venezuela's judicial system has been deemed the most corrupt in the world by Transparency International. [166] Human Rights Watch accuse Hugo Chávez and his allies of taking over the Supreme Court in 2004, filling it with supporters and making new measures allowing the government to dismiss justices from the court. [ 34 ]
Human Rights Watch, Venezuela Events of 2021, accessed Sept. 28, 2022. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Fact-checking claim on Venezuela sending prisoners to the US ...
There was censorship and media control during the Venezuelan presidential crisis between 2019 and January 2023.. A crisis concerning who was the legitimate president of Venezuela began on 10 January 2019, when the opposition-majority National Assembly declared that incumbent Nicolás Maduro's 2018 reelection was invalid and the body declared its president, Juan Guaidó, to be acting president ...
On 1 November 2018 Trump signed an executive order to "ban US persons from dealing with entities and individuals involved with 'corrupt or deceptive' gold sales from Venezuela". [ 142 ] In mid-February 2019, National Assembly legislator Angel Alvarado said that about eight tons of gold had been taken from the vault while the head of the Central ...
He came out of left field, a candidate who until late last week very few people had heard of, but diplomat Edmundo González is being portrayed today as Venezuela’s greatest chance to recover ...
Venezuela's recent elections were marred by accusations of fraud and voter suppression, and the results have sparked strong reactions from the far right and far left of American politics.
According to The U.S. Bureau of Diplomatic Security, street gang violence, "corrupt" underpaid police officers, "an inefficient and politicized judicial system", an extremely troubled prison system, and an increased widespread of weaponry has resulted in the majority of criminal activity in Venezuela, with murder being the crime committed the ...
The Trump administration has ended extended protections granted to thousands of Venezuelans in the United States and is in talks to repatriate them, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...