(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(2022-02-03). Los Tramojos: Venezuelan Campesinos Rescue Land After Years-Long Struggle. venezuelanalysis.com The symbolic estate headlined 320 land titles handed by the Venezuelan government to campesinos "to strengthen food production".
(2022-02-03). President Maduro Announces Expansion of Credit & Other Economic Decisions. orinocotribune.com 
This Wednesday, February 2, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced measures aimed at expanding access to financing through Venezuela's banks, including the implementation of mechanisms to democratize credit, allowing entrepreneurs and businessmen to expand productive capacity. | The announcements were made during a meeting held at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, in the framework of the National Council of Economy, with the participation of all the representatives of the country's public and private financial institutions, and the Central Bank of Venezuela, among other state agencies. | "We have been amalgama…
(2022-02-03). FAO Removes Venezuela from List of Hunger Hotspots, Incorporates Colombia. orinocotribune.com The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has excluded Venezuela from its list of countries facing severe food shortages. | In a FAO, in its report, stated that this year in Latin America, Colombia, Haiti and Honduras are in the Agency's list of highest levels of concern; but there is not such a forecast for Venezuela…
(2022-02-03). Jorge Rodríguez: Deputies Failing to Fulfill their Oath Will be Jailed. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, February 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) Jorge Rodríguez, warned that deputies who fail to comply with their oath will go to prison. This was said after referring to the case of PSUV parliamentarian, Taina González Rubio, who was arrested in Falcón for her alleged involvement in a drug trafficking network. | "Jail will be the destination for any deputy failing to fulfill their oath, thus becoming a despicable traitor. Everyone who deviates from the right path will be sent to jail," he asserted during his speech at the session this Tuesday, in which the parliamentary immunity o…
(2022-02-03). Cuba's Resumen Latinoamericano Website Silenced Due to Blockade. orinocotribune.com By Graciela Ramírez — Jan 29, 2022 | This January 27, while we were preparing different notes on national and international affairs, our website cubaenresumen.org was silenced. We could not upload any information, we thought at first it was due to a technical problem with the website. | After an hour we began to receive messages via WhatsApp from friends and readers of Cuba en Resumen in Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela, Spain, the United States and Italy who were asking what was happening, since they could not access not only what was published in the morning, nor anything on our website. | We immedia…
(2022-02-03). Venezuela: Law Authorizes Tax on Foreign Currency Transactions. telesurenglish.net "What has been happening up to now is that the rich and the big traders pocket the dollars and do not give the Venezuelan State a single cent of those dollars with which they make transactions," said the president of the legislative body, Jorge Rodríguez, during the session broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión. | RELATED: | The reform establishes that the tax rate will be between 2 percent and 20 percent for transa…
(2022-02-03). 'Police used Bogota bus terminals to torture protesters'. colombiareports.com Bogota police used bus terminals in Colombia's capital as illegal detention centers during protests last year, according to opposition politicians. The accusation made by two Bogota city council members was…