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Maduro’s Downfall Puts China’s Relationship With Venezuela To The Test
For nearly two decades, China has been more than just a trading partner for Venezuela: a key political backer, a financial lifeline during the worst years of sanctions, and an ally willing to defy the isolation imposed by the United States. But the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces early Saturday has tested the strength of the Beijing‑Caracas strategic partnership like never before. And although the Asian giant has criticized Washington’s “hegemonic acts” and demanded the immediate release of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, there is broad consensus among analysts that its response will remain largely rhetorical.
“China is deeply shocked and strongly condemns the reckless use of force by the United States against a sovereign state and the actions directed against the president of another country,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement released about eight hours after explosions began in various parts of Venezuela, including the capital. On Sunday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry called on the U.S. “to ensure the personal safety of President Maduro and his wife, release them at once, stop toppling the government of Venezuela, and resolve issues through dialogue and negotiation.”
In both statements, Beijing denounced what it considers a “serious transgression” of international law, a “violation of Venezuelan sovereignty,” and a “threat to the peace and security of Latin America and the Caribbean.” “We call on the U.S. to abide by international law and the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter, and stop violating other countries’ sovereignty and security,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.
The tone aligns with Beijing’s line over the past few months, during which it expressed opposition to the naval and air deployments Washington has maintained in the Caribbean since August and reaffirmed support for the Maduro regime as U.S. pressure mounted. In mid‑December, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assured his Venezuelan counterpart, Yván Gil, over the phone that his country opposed “all forms of intimidation” and supported “the defense of Venezuela’s sovereignty and national dignity.” However, Beijing avoided backing that rhetoric with concrete actions.
That caution reflects several factors. Venezuela does not occupy a central place in China’s global strategic priorities, which are focused on the Asia-Pacific region (with particular emphasis on Taiwan), trade ties with Europe, and structural competition with the United States — a framework that helps explain why the Chinese government did not immediately respond to Maduro’s capture.
Beijing doesn’t have much room to maneuver. In 2023, during Maduro’s state visit to China, the China-Venezuelan relationship was elevated to the level of an “all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership,” but this flowery political recognition doesn’t imply any security commitments. Moreover, experts point out that, for China, Venezuela is a useful partner on a rhetorical and symbolic level, rather than an ally to whom it would be willing to offer military support in a scenario of direct confrontation with the United States.
“China’s position when some of its partners face a crisis is limited,” argues Inés Arco, a researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) specializing in East Asia, in an exchange of messages. “When the United States bombed Iran, a closer ally of China than Venezuela and in a similar situation of energy importance and international sanctions, Beijing offered no further support beyond rhetoric,” says Arco. “Ultimately, China presents itself as an economic partner, not a security partner.”
Such limits are not new. In recent years, Beijing has pragmatically recalibrated its relationship with Caracas, following a period of high financial exposure between 2007 and 2015, during which it provided Venezuela with oil-backed loans totaling more than $60 billion (equivalent to 16% of its GDP), according to data from the Inter-American Dialogue and Boston University. After the collapse of oil production, the Venezuelan economic downturn from 2014 onward, and the tightening of sanctions, China drastically cut financing and direct investment. Since then, Venezuela’s real economic weight for China has diminished compared with other regional partners such as Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Mexico.
In this context, the relationship has increasingly centered on the energy sector. China, the world’s largest crude importer, has been the main destination for Venezuelan oil exports since 2019, as U.S. sanctions closed off other markets. Although Venezuelan crude accounts for only about 4% of China’s total imports, it has been a lifeline for Caracas: between 2023 and 2025, China absorbed between 55% and 80% of Venezuelan exports in many months, according to calculations cited by Reuters. These sales have been essential for the Chavista regime to maintain a minimal flow of foreign-currency revenue while access to Western markets was restricted.
Although economic ties have been gradually limited, Venezuela has continued to serve China as a useful element in its narrative. Chinese foreign policy, especially under President Xi Jinping, is organized around the defense of sovereignty, rejection of unilateral sanctions, and opposition to external interference. These positions are consistently reiterated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while carefully avoiding stances that could lead to an open confrontation with Washington. Within this framework, diplomatic support for Caracas during recent months of tension has allowed Beijing to reinforce its narrative against U.S. unilateralism and project an image of strong support for the Global South, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump was repeatedly undermining the multilateral order.
A few hours before his capture, Maduro praised the “unbreakable bond” between Venezuela and China and expressed his gratitude to Xi “for his fraternal support, like an older brother.” He did so during a meeting in Caracas with a Chinese delegation led by Qiu Xiaqi, the special envoy for Latin America and the Caribbean — a meeting that neither the Chinese government nor state media have publicly reported.
At the end of November, Xi described the two countries as “close friends, dear brothers, and good partners” and reiterated his categorical rejection of “interference by external forces in Venezuela’s internal affairs.” The Chinese leader was also one of the few world leaders to congratulate Maduro on his victory in the 2024 presidential elections, which were questioned by much of the international community and widely condemned as fraudulent.
The Venezuelan crisis also unfolds amid growing rivalry between China and the United States for influence in Latin America. In early December, Washington published a new National Security Strategy that redefines the region as a “core national interest” and presents an updated version of the Monroe Doctrine, aimed at restoring U.S. primacy in the Western Hemisphere and protecting key strategic corridors.
Although it does not explicitly mention China, the strategy prioritizes preventing “non-hemispheric competitors” from deploying forces or controlling strategic assets and warns of the need to identify and counter “hostile foreign influences,” a framework analysts interpret as a direct reference to China’s growing presence in the region. Days later, Beijing released its third Policy Document for Latin America and the Caribbean (the first in nine years), portraying Latin America as an essential force in the transition to a multipolar order and emphasizing that its relationships “neither target nor exclude third parties, nor are they subordinated to any country.”
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The Venezuelan Prisoners Who Found Out About Maduro’s Fall A Week After The Rest Of The World
The entire world had already seen Nicolás Maduro being led in handcuffs into a New York courtroom in real time, but thousands of Venezuelans still believed that he and the first lady, Cilia Flores, remained in charge of the country. The world also knew that Maduro had declared himself a prisoner of war, that Delcy Rodríguez had assumed the role of interim president, and that Diosdado Cabello was patrolling the streets of Caracas to prevent unrest. But for the Venezuelans isolated in jails and prisons, the country remained the same.
These are political and common detainees held in prisons like El Rodeo, El Helicoide, and El Atillo. Without access to telephones, radios, televisions, or newspapers, they learned the news a week after the rest of the world. They believed everything was the same until family visiting days on Friday and Saturday, their loved ones bringing them the information about what had happened during the most turbulent week in Venezuela since Maduro assumed power in 2013.
A young woman, who prefers to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals, arrived, as she does every Saturday morning, at El Rodeo 1 prison with a food package under her arm and news for her brother. Despite the glass partition and the fact that he arrived in the visiting room hooded, she was able to tell him: “Maduro is gone, the Americans took him and they’re going to try him there. Delcy is the new president now.”
Her brother’s eyes — he is one of the 145 political prisoners at El Rodeo — widened in shock, she recalls. “That’s when he truly understood what had happened, although he already knew something, because the night before he’d heard shouts of joy coming from some nearby cells, from prisoners who had received visitors the day before.” However, until that moment, he only had a hunch that something serious had occurred the previous weekend. “They heard the planes, the explosions, more planes…” she says. Then came the silence, and later, the family visits.
When she told him, two guards were closely monitoring the conversation. “He got excited and let out such a shout of joy that the officer immediately called him to order: ‘If you keep this up, the visit ends right now,’” she recalls.
“There is no contact between the prisoners, but after news like this they usually communicate by shouting from one cell to another, providing details,” the detainee’s sister explains over the phone.
Preventing any display of joy that could lead to protests or public celebrations has been one of the government’s main concerns, prompting it to issue a “state of emergency” decree. The decree authorizes the police to “immediately undertake the search and capture throughout the national territory of any person involved in promoting or supporting the armed attack by the United States against the territory of the Republic.” Since then, publicly celebrating the capture of Maduro and Flores has become practically a crime in Venezuela.
The decree authorizes authorities to restrict fundamental rights such as freedom of assembly, demonstration, and free movement for 90 days, with the possibility of an extension. So far, five arrests have been reported for “celebrating the kidnapping of President Maduro.” Two people were arrested for firing shots into the air, and three others were arrested for messages posted on social media. One young woman was even forced to issue a public apology, and the police released a video of her in handcuffs, accompanied by two officers. “Mr. President Nicolás, I am here to leave this message to apologize for a video I posted a few hours ago…” she says in the recording.
None of this was known to another prisoner accused of homicide, whose mother — who also prefers to remain anonymous — visited him in the cells of the Scientific, Criminal and Forensic Investigations Corps (CICPC) in Caracas. “He didn’t believe it. ‘Is this for real, Mom?’ he kept asking me. I told him about the invasion and that Maduro had been kidnapped, because he didn’t know anything,” the woman explains from Petare.
During the 15 minutes she has every two weeks to see her son, she recalls telling him that things were changing rapidly in the country. “But I didn’t see any happiness in him. I think he was worried, just like me. We’re a little scared.”
This mother gets emotional when she recalls the U.S. bombing of Caracas. “Those were hours of fear, hearing the planes. I don’t care about anything, but I kept thinking about the news reports I’d seen of similar bombings in Israel or Iraq,” she says about the two hours in which U.S. planes devastated the city’s landscape.
The more than 67,200 prisoners in the country, according to data from World Prison Brief and the Venezuelan Prison Observatory, were the last to find out about a heart-stopping week that, inside Venezuelan prisons, arrived in slow motion.
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María Corina Machado Fights To Avoid Being Left Out Of A Hypothetical Transition In Venezuela
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump this week, the White House has confirmed. The conversation aims to bridge the void created by the paradoxical estrangement between the two at the height of the Venezuelan crisis, following Nicolás Maduro’s forced removal from power.
Just as the United States finally decided to intervene in the Caribbean nation — something Machado had been urging for months — the main opposition leader suffered an unexpected setback. Following Maduro’s arrest, the White House reassessed its options, and María Corina Machado was not among them. Trump himself announced a negotiated “transition” with the now-acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, and dismissed Machado as the person to lead the country at this time.
“She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country,” he said. “She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.” Trump has thus left out of this announced transition — at least for the moment — the opposition movement with the most support inside and outside Venezuela. And, most importantly, this opposition has been left without any organic or territorial ties to the population at this time. The U.S. media has also reported on Trump’s apparent anger at not having won the Nobel Peace Prize, which went to Machado instead.
Trump’s decisions, enthusiastically supported by his Secretary of State Marco Rubio — the main proponent of Machado and her team’s interpretation of the Venezuelan crisis — carry real implications beyond mere symbolism: the White House has chosen to turn the page on the 2024 presidential election results, which, according to numerous international reports, gave a resounding victory to Edmundo González Urrutia, Machado’s candidate (she herself was ineligible to run). Rubio even went so far as to say he considered those elections illegitimate.
“I am very surprised by President Trump’s dismissal of Machado,” Kevin Whitaker, a U.S. diplomat formerly stationed in Venezuela, stated in several media outlets recently. “Her movement was elected by a landslide in 2024. By dismissing her, he has dismissed the entire movement.”
Trump’s slightly dismissive tone toward the Nobel Peace Prize laureate — whom he rarely, if ever, calls by her name — has caused surprise in Venezuelan politics. And in the United States as well.
Several U.S. officials have told the media that Trump is prioritizing the caution recommended by his intelligence services. While Machado is enormously popular among the population, her leadership lacks the necessary support within the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, which still prop up the regime. Furthermore, there is a considerable network of militants and civilians armed by the regime itself, and spread throughout the country — the infamous colectivos — that could threaten any aspiration for stability.
Following the U.S. attack that landed Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a New York prison, Machado declared herself ready to assume power. The opposition leader has repeatedly stated that the Chavista government is “weak,” that its leadership is divided, and that the national crisis is in its final phase, but her moment has yet to arrive. Her appeals to Venezuelan hope are constant. At the end of last year, she posted a video on social media called “Land of Grace,” in which she invited Venezuelans to envision a country free from Chavista rule, reclaiming its democracy, properly managing its resources, and attracting investors from all corners of the globe.
In addition to Washington’s doubts, Machado and the opposition movements face another challenge. Donald Trump makes no secret of his enormous interest in Venezuela’s natural resources, and is making unilateral decisions about the future of a country that is not his own. He talks a lot about oil and very little about a return to democracy. This is how Rubio presents it: stabilization, recovery, and transition. This tone has been poorly received by the opposition’s grassroots.
A significant portion of Venezuelan opposition leaders are displaying an unusual reluctance to speak with the press. Some of them cite their anger at the way some international media outlets are covering the Venezuelan crisis, presumably for forcing arguments in favor of Chavismo.
Meanwhile, María Corina Machado remains determined to curry favor with Washington, and to that end, she has had to embrace pragmatism, despite the contradictions imposed by reality in the past week. After all, Machado aspires to make Venezuela a strategic ally of the United States in the future. For this reason, she has remained silent regarding Trump’s decisions on the control of oil and natural resources, although she has expressed reservations about the viability of a transition with Delcy Rodríguez. Machado has praised Trump’s strategy against Maduro and Chavismo and has repeatedly thanked him for his actions and his interest in the country. The opposition leader has even offered to share her Nobel Peace Prize with him. The important thing, she and her team insist, is that they are ready to govern Venezuela.
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Últimas Noticias De Venezuela Tras La Detención De Maduro, En Directo | Trump Firma Una Orden Ejecutiva Para Bloquear Que Los Tribunales Confisquen Fondos Del Petróleo Venezolano
EE UU podría levantar más sanciones a Venezuela, según el secretario del Tesoro
El secretario del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, Scott Bessent, ha dicho a Reuters que las sanciones adicionales de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela podrían levantarse la próxima semana para facilitar las ventas de petróleo.
En una entrevista realizada el viernes por la noche con la agencia de noticias, Bessent también ha adelantado que se reunirá la próxima semana con los jefes del Fondo Monetario Internacional y del Banco Mundial para reanudar sus compromisos con Venezuela. (Reuters)
Presidenta Xiomara Castro le pide a Trump “un diálogo directo sobre proceso electoral en Honduras”
La presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro, le ha pedido este sábado a su homólogo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, sostener “un diálogo directo y franco sobre el proceso electoral” del pasado 30 de noviembre en el país centroamericano, a 17 días de concluir su mandato de cuatro años y tras acusar al estadounidense de interferir en los comicios.
“Señor presidente de los Estados Unidos de América, Donald J. Trump: Le invito respetuosamente a que sostengamos un diálogo directo y franco sobre el proceso electoral en Honduras”, ha indicado Castro en un extenso mensaje en la red social X. (EFE).
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EE UU alerta que milicias armadas buscan a estadounidenses en Venezuela
El Gobierno de Estados Unidos ha pedido a sus ciudadanos que no viajen a Venezuela ante la situación de seguridad que sigue siendo “inestable” y a los que actualmente se encuentran en el país sudamericano que lo abandonen de inmediato. “Antes de partir, tomen precauciones y estén atentos a su entorno. Se ha informado de que grupos de milicias armadas, conocidos como colectivos, están bloqueando carreteras y registrando vehículos en busca de evidencia de ciudadanía estadounidense o apoyo a EE UU”, ha comunicado la Oficina de Asuntos Consulares del Departamento de Estado a través de sus redes sociales.
Han reiterado que Venezuela mantiene el nivel más alto de alerta de viaje, la categoría cuatro (no viajar), debido a los graves riesgos para los estadounidenses, que incluyen “detención injusta, tortura durante la detención, terrorismo, secuestro, aplicación arbitraria de las leyes locales, delincuencia, disturbios civiles y una infraestructura sanitaria deficiente”. La alerta se realiza justo cuando la Administración de Donald Trump ha reanudado relaciones diplomáticas con Caracas.
El País
Liberan a la enfermera Yanny González tras cinco meses detenida por denunciar hostigamiento del chavismo
El abogado Gonzalo Himiob, director vicepresidente de la oenegé Foro Penal, ha confirmado la liberación de la enfermera Yanny Esther González Terán después de haber estado cinco meses detenida. Según el activista venezolano, la mujer fue arrestada “arbitrariamente” el 22 de julio de 2025 por cuerpos de seguridad. Entonces, González se desempeñaba como presidenta del Colegio de Enfermeras del estado de Barinas, en los llanos venezolanos, y un mes antes, en mayo, había denunciado un supuesto hostigamiento por parte de la Dirección Regional de Salud en Barinas que, presuntamente, había obligado al gremio a sumarse a la campaña electoral de Adán Chávez, hermano del fallecido presidente Hugo Chávez, y electo como gobernador de ese estado.
Macarena Vidal LiyWashington
Trump firma una orden ejecutiva para bloquear que los tribunales confisquen fondos del petróleo venezolano
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha firmado una orden ejecutiva por la que declara una “emergencia” para impedir que los tribunales o posibles acreedores se incauten de los ingresos generados por la venta de petróleo venezolano y retenidos en cuentas bancarias del Departamento del Tesoro.
La orden “bloquea cualquier embargo, juicio, decreto, derecho de retención, ejecución o cualquier otro proceso judicial contra” fondos que estén en cuentas del Gobierno estadounidense y procedan de las ventas del petróleo venezolano.
La medida se firmó el viernes, después de una reunión de Trump con empresarios petroleros, venidos de todo el mundo para abordar la reconstrucción del sector energético en Venezuela. El presidente estadounidense desea que las grandes firmas mundiales inviertan cerca de 100.000 millones de dólares (86.000 millones) para poner al día la vetusta infraestructura de la industria en el país sudamericano, que alberga cerca de 300.000 millones de barriles en su subsuelo.
En un comunicado, la Casa Blanca indica que con esta medida “el presidente Trump previene la incautación de ingresos generados por el petróleo venezolano que podrían socavar los esfuerzos, fundamentales, de Estados Unidos para garantizar la estabilidad política y económica de Venezuela”.
El País
Canciller Yván Gil responde al Papa León XIV: “Venezuela no es ni ha sido un Estado de narcotráfico”
El canciller del Gobierno de Delcy Rodríguez, Yván Gil, ha asegurado este sábado que “Venezuela no es ni ha sido un Estado de narcotráfico” en respuesta al Papa León XIV, quien el viernes ha manifestado que, “sin duda”, una de las razones de la “grave crisis que aflige” al país sudamericano desde hace muchos años es el tráfico de drogas.
De acuerdo con Gil la “narrativa” que vincula a Venezuela con el tráfico de drogas ha quedado “aún más expuesta tras el ataque ilegítimo, ilegal y cruel del que fuimos víctimas, que dejó más de un centenar de fallecidos entre civiles y militares inocentes”.
Macarena Vidal LiyWashington
Trump ofrece la ayuda de su Gobierno a la “libertad” en Irán
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha ofrecido este sábado ayuda de su Gobierno para la “libertad” en Irán, cuando se agudizan las protestas de las últimas dos semanas contra la gestión económica del régimen y que han dejado al menos 51 muertos. El régimen iraní ha advertido este sábado que reprimirán “con la mayor fuerza” las movilizaciones.
En un mensaje en su red social, Truth, Trump ha escrito: “Irán pone la vista en la LIBERTAD, quizás como nunca antes. ¡Estados Unidos está dispuesto a ayudar!”. Se trata de la segunda declaración del republicano en 24 horas en torno a las manifestaciones masivas en el país de Oriente Próximo: en declaraciones durante una reunión con empresarios petroleros en la Casa Blanca para tratar sobre el sector energético en Venezuela, advertía a Teherán contra cualquier intento de reprimir a los movilizados.
“Si empiezan a matar a la gente como han hecho en el pasado, nos implicaremos. Les golpearemos muy duro donde duele. Y eso no quiere decir mandar tropas, quiere decir golpearles donde duele”.
El País
Edmundo González denuncia que “no se ha alcanzado ni el 1% de las excarcelaciones anunciadas” por el Gobierno de Venezuela
El opositor Edmundo González Urrutia ha denunciado que “no se ha alcanzado ni siquiera el 1 % de las excarcelaciones” de prisioneros políticos en Venezuela anunciadas por el Gobierno de Delcy Rodríguez el pasado jueves. “Mientras tanto las familias siguen esperando. Sin información clara. Sin listas. Sin certezas”, ha dicho en un mensaje escrito en su cuenta de X este sábado.
Urrutia, que se encuentra en España después de haber desafiado a Nicolás Maduro en las elecciones del 28 de julio de 2024, ha hecho referencia a la situación de su propia hija, Mariana González, que tiene a su esposo, Rafael Tudares Bracho, detenido desde hace un año. “Mi hija ha estado presente todos los días. Acompañando y siendo acompañada por madres, padres, hijas e hijos que no piden privilegios. Exigen el cumplimiento y el respeto a derechos fundamentales. La espera prolongada no es neutral. Genera angustia, revictimiza y profundiza el daño ya causado por detenciones arbitrarias y procesos sin garantías”, ha señado el político aliado de María Corina Machado, líder de la oposición y premio Nobel de la Paz.
Ha hecho, además, un llamado a evitar demoras en las excarcelaciones: “La libertad no se anuncia. Se ejecuta. Los derechos humanos no se administran con dilaciones ni opacidad. Cada hora que pasa sin respuestas es una nueva forma de violencia contra las familias. La responsabilidad es clara y el tiempo corre”.
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Nicaragua libera a al menos 20 presos políticos tras la presión de EE UU
Un día después de que la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Managua (Nicaragua) insistiera en que “más de 60 personas siguen injustamente detenidas o desaparecidas” bajo el régimen de Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo, este sábado por la mañana la administración sandinista ha anunciado la excarcelación de “decenas de personas que permanecían en resguardo de las autoridades pertinentes”, sin precisar cifras.
Sin embargo, EL PAÍS ha logrado confirmar al menos 20 excarcelaciones de presos políticos que permanecían detenidos. Desde la noche del viernes, agentes policiales comenzaron a contactar a familiares para informarles sobre la inminente salida de los detenidos y, al final, los llamaron de madrugada para citarlos a primera hora en los distintos centros penitenciarios de Nicaragua para recibirlos. El Gobierno ha realizado un acto en el que también fueron liberados reos comunes.
La medida se produce en un contexto regional marcado por la caída de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela y el endurecimiento del discurso de Washington hacia Nicaragua y Cuba. Aunque el régimen sandinista no lo reconoce de forma explícita, la excarcelación coincide con la presión diplomática de Estados Unidos, que este viernes contrastó la liberación de presos políticos en Venezuela con la persistencia de detenciones y desapariciones forzadas en Nicaragua, subrayando que “la paz solo es posible con libertad”.
El País
El Gobierno venezolano libera a otros tres activistas opositores
Otros tres presos políticos han sido excarcelados en Venezuela, como parte del proceso de liberación de un “número importante” de detenidos anunciado el jueves por las autoridades venezolanas, según Organizaciones no gubernamentales y opositores, que hasta al momento han contabilizado una veintena de liberaciones.
Según las organizaciones, han sido excarcelados Virgilio Laverde, coordinador juvenil del partido Vente Venezuela (VV) —liderado por la nobel de paz María Corina Machado— en el estado Bolívar (sur, fronterizo con Brasil), y Didelis Raquel Corredor, quien fue asistente del activista opositor Roland Carreño, también detenido. La ONG Foro Penal, que computa más de 800 presos políticos, confirmó también la excarcelación de Antonio Gerardo Buzzetta Pacheco, ciudadano italo-venezolano “arbitrariamente detenido” desde el 30 de septiembre de 2024.
El Comité de Derechos Humanos de VV indicó en X que Laverde estaba preso desde el 15 de agosto del 2024, cuando el joven fue detenido por “funcionarios del CICPC (Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas)”, en medio de la crisis desatada tras la controvertida proclamación de Nicolás Maduro como presidente reelecto en los comicios de julio de ese año. En la misma red social, el presidente de Foro Penal, Alfredo Romero, señaló que Corredor “se encontraba presa desde el 13 julio de 2023”. (Efe)
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Cuatro petroleros que habían salido de Venezuela sin emitir señales regresan a sus aguas
Al menos cuatro petroleros, la mayoría cargados, que habían salido de Venezuela a principios de enero con sus transpondedores apagados por el estricto bloqueo estadounidense, han regresado a las aguas del país sudamericano, según la empresa estatal PDVSA y el servicio de monitoreo TankerTrackers.com.
Una flotilla de aproximadamente una docena de buques cargados y al menos otros tres barcos vacíos partió de aguas venezolanas el mes pasado, en aparente desafío al embargo impuesto por el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, desde mediados de diciembre, que ha reducido al mínimo las exportaciones petroleras del país.
Uno de los barcos, el superpetrolero M Sophia, con bandera panameña, fue interceptado e incautado por Estados Unidos esta semana cuando regresaba al país;
mientras que otro, el petrolero Aframax Olina, con bandera de Santo Tomé y Príncipe, fue interceptado, pero devuelto a Venezuela el viernes, según informó la empresa estatal PDVSA.
Tres buques más que partieron en esa flotilla, el Merope, con bandera panameña; el Min Hang, con bandera de las Islas Cook; y el Thalia III, con bandera panameña, fueron avistados por Tankertrackers.com en aguas venezolanas la noche del viernes mediante imágenes satelitales. (Reuters)
El País
Los líderes de los principales partidos políticos de Groenlandia: “No queremos ser estadounidenses ni daneses. Queremos ser groenlandeses”
El parlamento de Groenlandia ha adelantado una reunión para debatir su respuesta a Estados Unidos, que amenaza con tomar el control de la isla ártica, según han declarado de manera conjunta los líderes de los cinco los partidos políticos en la asamblea groenlandesa. La fecha del encuentro aún no se ha determinado. El parlamento de Groenlandia se reunió por última vez en noviembre y tenía previsto reunirse de nuevo el 3 de febrero, según su sitio web.
“Reafirmamos una vez más nuestro deseo de que cese el desprecio de Estados Unidos hacia nuestro país”, han comunicado los políticos groenlandeses. “No queremos ser estadounidenses, no queremos ser daneses, queremos ser groenlandeses”, resaltan en el comunicado, publicado en redes sociales por el primer ministro de Groenlandia, Jens-Frederik Nielsen. El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, ha dejado claro en múltiples ocasiones que tiene planes para hacerse con Groenlandia, una parte autónoma del Reino de Dinamarca. (Reuters)
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La Administración de Donald Trump ha dado esta semana un nuevo paso en su contrarreforma ambiental, que busca incentivar a toda costa el consumo de los combustibles fósiles. El presidente de EE UU ha ordenado que su país abandone varios organismos internacionales científicos y medioambientales, además de dejar el principal tratado contra el cambio climático, que desde 1992 rige los esfuerzos mundiales para intentar tratar de contender el calentamiento global.
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En 1999, al poco de desatar su revolución bolivariana, el entonces presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, inició su primera gira internacional con un viaje a China. Buscaba estrechar lazos; fue un viaje fructífero: sellaron acuerdos para incrementar el flujo de petróleo desde la Faja del Orinoco, iniciativas en el sector energético y la promoción de inversiones del país asiático en Venezuela. “Pedimos a China que continúe con su esfuerzo para que el mundo no sea regido por un policía universal que lo imponga todo”, reclamó Chávez. Le seguirían años de idilio. La sed de recursos del gigante manufacturero engrasaría a partir de entonces la sintonía entre Caracas y Pekín.
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Las mayores reservas de petróleo del mundo en 1980 estaban concentradas en Oriente Medio, especialmente en Arabia Saudí. En Venezuela ya se había comprobado la existencia de depósitos considerables, esenciales para la economía del país en décadas anteriores, pero apenas representaban el 3% del total mundial.
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Qué ha pasado en las últimas horas
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha prometido “garantías de seguridad” a las operadoras que se trasladan a Venezuela durante su reunión en la Casa Blanca con representantes de la industria petrolera.
Durante el encuentro, el magnate ha ofrecido a China y Rusia invertir en el país caribeño y comprar “todo el crudo que necesiten”.
La presidenta de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, ha agradecido al presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, la “valiente postura” al “condenar la agresión” de Estados Unidos en Venezuela.
Sánchez también ha mantenido una conversación con el líder opositor Edmundo González, residente en España. Tras estas llamadas, ha reivindicado en X “una transición pacífica y liderada por los propios venezolanos”.
Los cinco españoles liberados por Venezuela aterrizaron ayer en Madrid
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Buenos días. Comienza aquí la narración en directo de la última hora de la intervención de Estados Unidos en Venezuela tras la detención del expresidente del país Nicolás Maduro.
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