(2023-11-17). President of Colombia Will Travel to Venezuela on Official Visit. orinocotribune.com The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, will be in Venezuela on an official visit this weekend, and will meet with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro. | Upon the completion og the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Summit, held in San Francisco, USA, the Colombian president will travel to Venezuela. This was announced on Wednesday, November 15, in an official statement of the Colombian government. | Petro is expected to arrive in Caracas on Friday, November 17. On Saturday he will meet with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as well as other authorities of the Venezuelan government. | "On…
(2023-11-17). Venezuela Rejects Israeli Entity's Position Against Latin American Countries Opposing Genocide. orinocotribune.com Venezuela has issued a condemnation of the statements and actions made by the president of the Israeli settler colonial entity, Isaac Herzog, who has made verbal attacks against different nations in Latin America and the Caribbean for their positions against the genocidal Israeli entity's attacks against Palestinians in Gaza. | During an
(2023-11-16). ExxonMobil Extracting Oil from Disputed Venezuelan Waters (+Statement). orinocotribune.com US transnational oil corporation ExxonMobil began extracting oil in Payara, an oil field located in waters that have yet to be delimited between Venezuela and Guyana. Payara is the third-largest producing oil field in Guyana, with a maximum capacity that amounts to approximately 620,000 barrels per day. | For this activity, Exxon is using Singapore-made Prosperity FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) unit. During the first half of next year, Payara will be producing approximately 220 barrels of oil per day. | To date, about 30 world-class oil fields, containing some 11 billion barrels of oil, have be…
(2023-11-16). Venezuela's VP Rodríguez at The Hague: Guyana has Shown its True Colors as an Aggressor State. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez stated this Wednesday before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, that Guyana has become an aggressor state that de facto occupies a territory that does not belong to it. | Rodríguez issued her statement during the public hearing before the ICJ in which Venezuela presented its arguments to defend the holding of the consultative referendum throughout Venezuela regarding the Essequibo territory dispute. | In her speech, the vice president confirmed that the government of Mohamed Irfaan Ali in Guyana has become an aggressor state. At the same t…
(2023-11-16). Venezuela and Paraguay Resume Diplomatic and Consular Relations (+Petropar). orinocotribune.com The foreign minister for Venezuela, Yván Gil, has reported that the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, have made an agreement on resuming diplomatic and consular relations between both nations. | The announcement was made this Wednesday, November 15, through a statement published via Gil's social media reporting that Venezuela and Paraguay, following talks between the nations' presidents, are resuming ties and will proceed to share the accreditations of their respective ambassadors in the coming days. | The Venezuelan statement notes "both parties have committed…
(2023-11-16). Venezuela Repatriates 180 Migrants From Iceland (+Vuelta a la Patria). orinocotribune.com A total of 180 Venezuelans will return to their home country on a direct flight from the remote country of Iceland, on the edge of the Arctic Circle. | This is a group of people who have taken advantage of a voluntary return initiative, choosing to abandon their attempt to migrate to the Nordic country. The flight leaves Iceland as the country expects a large volcanic eruption to follow thousands of earthquakes that have occurred in the last few days. The authorities have declared a state of emergency and evacuated the populations in the southeast of the island, where the lives of thousands of people are consider…
(2023-11-17). TSJ de Venezuela ampara realización de referendo sobre Esequibo. telesurtv.net Alta corte ratifica el desconocimiento por parte de Venezuela del Laudo Arbitral de París de 1899. Subraya que solo reconocen con valor legal en cuanto a derecho internacional el Acuerdo de Ginebra de 1966.
(2023-11-17). EE.UU. ha deportado a más de 380.000 migrantes en siete meses. telesurtv.net El gobierno estadounidense reanudó recientemente las deportaciones directas a Venezuela, para frenar la migración irregular.
(2023-11-17). Venezuela Rejects Israeli Entity's Position Against Latin American Countries Opposing Genocide. orinocotribune.com
(2023-11-17). Colombian Government Will Resume Peace Talks With FARC Dissidents. orinocotribune.com The head of the Colombian government's delegation for the peace process, Camilo González Posso, announced that the peace talks with the Central General Staff (EMC) of the of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will resume, after being suspended for 10 days. | González Posso explained that for the new round of negotiations, a package of protocols and agreements focused on respect for the civilian population was approved. "We have approved 21 commitments based on humanitarian law and human rights to protect life in all its forms, including the non-recruitment of children and adolescents, limiting anti…
(2023-11-17). JEP de Colombia acepta sometimiento de exjefe paramilitar. telesurtv.net Según la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, los aportes de Salvatore Mancuso "cumplen con los criterios de valoración exigidos por el órgano de cierre".
(2023-11-17). Presentan proyecto de ley contra los crímenes de paz en Colombia. telesurtv.net Dicho proyecto de ley sanciona con agravantes a los altos funcionarios que cometan infracciones o violenten la ley cayendo en actos de corrupción en fondos públicos destinados para la paz.
(2023-11-17). Colombia's deputy chief prosecutor again linked to drug trafficking. colombiareports.com Two prosecutors accused Colombia's deputy chief prosecutor of protecting corrupt officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking. The accusation comes less than a year after jailed drug trafficker Carlos Ramon Zapata,…
(2023-11-17). Colombia's war crimes tribunal allows submission of former AUC commander. colombiareports.com Colombia's war crimes tribunal JEP allowed the submission of former paramilitary commander Salvatore Mancuso to the transitional justice system. Mancuso will be tried by the transitional justice system for his…