2022-02-05: News Headlines

Ana Perdigón (2022-02-05). Venezuelan Authorities Announce New Phase of Vuelta a la Patria Program (+Xenophobia). orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Wednesday, February 2, that a new phase of the Vuelta a la Patria program will start in March, to guarantee the safe return of Venezuelan nationals residing in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. | During a meeting at the Miraflores Palace, the president stated that starting from March the number of flights of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria will be tripled, and called on Venezuelans who are outside the country to return. | President Maduro explained that initially the program will serve Venezuelans who are already registered to return to the countr…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-05). Extreme-Right Opposition Democratic Action Wants to Participate in 2024 Presidential Elections, Announces Candidacy. orinocotribune.com With two years to go before the 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, Carlos Prósperi, the spokesperson for the Democratic Action (AD) faction led by Henry Ramos Allup, has called for all opposition sectors to organize as a single unitary platform. | Ramos Allup is thus making it clear that even those groups which have traditionally represented right-wing extremism in Venezuela that has recurred to violence, election abstention, and coups, now understand that the only option is to constitutionally adhere to the democratic electoral route. | "The healthiest thing would be for all opposition political organizat…

teleSUR, SH (2022-02-05). Reportan el asesinato de dos lideres sociales en Arauca y Putumayo, Colombia. telesurtv.net Con los dos nuevos asesinatos, Colombia llega a 19 homicidios de lideres y lideresas sociales en lo corrido del 2022.

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-04). Recent Polls Show Venezuelans Expect Economic and Political Improvements. orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 4, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—According to the last Hinterlaces national survey, carried out this January, 29% of voters sympathize with the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and 1% with other organizations that are grouped around the Great Simón Bolívar Patriotic Pole (GPP), which places partisan support for the government of President Nicolás Maduro at 30%. | Last May, 2021, Orinoco Tribune

Staff (2022-02-04). Diosdado Cabello: Spirit of February 4 will Never Die. orinocotribune.com A few hours before the 30th anniversary of February 4, 1992—the day when Hugo Chavez and several other brave Venezuelan military officials shook Venezuela while trying to oust the neoliberal government of Democratic Action politician Carlos Andres Perez—the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, assured the nation that the spirit of that day will never die. | "February 4 (4F) was well worth it to liberate the homeland, that's why the spirit of February 4 will never die," he said during the inauguration ceremony of the 4F Plaza, at the General Command…

Staff (2022-02-04). President Maduro: Chávez's 4F Rebellion was a Cry Against Colonization. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asserted earlier today that the rebellion of February 4, 1992, known in Venezuela as 4F/1992, led by Commander Hugo Chávez, represented an outcry against the colonization that the neoliberal government of Carlos Andrés Pérez intended to impose on the country. | The comments were made as part of President Maduro's address during commemorative events for the 30th anniversary of 4F. The head of state hosted the inauguration of the Plaza de la Rebelión Anti-imperialista [Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square], located in the environs of the San Carlos barracks, in Caracas, wher…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Chavez Ignited the Bolivarian Revolution with the 4F Rebellion. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuelans remember the 30th anniversary of the anti-imperialist rebellion that Colonel Hugo Chavez led against President Carlos Perez (1989-1993), a corrupt politician who implemented neoliberal policies that worsened the people's living conditions. | RELATED: | On Feb. 4, 1992, five army units under Chavez's command moved into Caracas to seize key military and communications installations throughout…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). The Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square Honors Chavez Legacy. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro inaugurated the Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square in Caracas City on Thursday, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the revolt led by Colonel Hugo Chavez. | RELATED: | "In the early hours of February 4, 1992, Venezuela experienced the greatest political and spiritual upheaval that has been known since the time of Independence," Maduro said, recalling that that revolt marked the begin…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Colombian Court Postpones Debate on Abortion Decriminalization. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian Constitutional Court postponed the debate on the total decriminalization of abortion, as new disqualification petitions were filed against the tie-breaker judge of last January ¥s vote. | RELATED: | The legal debates commenced with two lawsuits presented in 2020: the first one was filed by Andres Sanchez in July, and the second one by the "Just Cause," a coalition of women's rights groups. Both of them…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Colombian Police Shots A 10-Year-Old Embera Indigenous Child. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Colombian anti-narcotics police injured 10-year-old Indigenous child Elio Niasa amid a confrontation with the Emberas leaders in the La Italia settlement, located between the municipalities of Puerto Asis and Valle del Guamuez. | RELATED: | Although Police brigades lacked orders from the Ethnicity Ministry, they landed on La Italia in helicopters to develop a narcotics search operation. | The communit…

teleSUR (2022-02-04). Armed Group Kills 3 Colombians In Putumayo Department. telesurenglish.net The Colombian Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ) denounced that armed men tortured, murdered, and burned the bodies of three people in the El Basal neighborhood in the Putumayo department on Wednesday. | RELATED: | The first victim was identified as Efren Ramos, prosecutor of the El Basal's Communal Action Board (JAC). The identity of the other two victims remains unknown because the fire comple…

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