2023-12-31: News Headlines

Victoria Torres (2023-12-31). Alex Saab Appears on Maduro Podcast, Provides Details of Illegal Imprisonment in Cape Verde and US. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was recently liberated from illegal imprisonment in the US, was interviewed by President Nicolás Maduro on the third episode of Maduro Podcast. In the interview, aired on Thursday, December 28, Saab shared details of his experiences during his illegal imprisonment of more than three years, first in Cape Verde and afterwards in the US. | Saab, accompanied by his wife Camila Fabri de Saab, expressed his gratitude to the Bolivarian government "for not getting tired when it was easy to get tired" and achieving his release from an unjust kidnapping of more than 1,280 days in a U.S. p…

Staff (2023-12-31). Venezuelan Army to Remain Deployed Until UK Navy Ship Leaves Disputed Water With Guyana. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López supervised the General Domingo Anotnio Sifontes joint military drill of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) that is going on in the Venezuelan Atlantic Faàßade. The drill was launched by the Venezuelan government on Thursday to safeguard the security and territorial sovereignty of the country in response to Guyana violating the Argyle Agreement and allowing a British warship to sail in the udelimited water of the disputed Essequibo territory. reached last December 14 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines between President Nicolas Maduro and Guyanese Pr…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-12-31). Venezuela rejects Argentina's decision on Emtrasur aircraft. plenglish.com Caracas, Dec 31 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela has categorically rejected the decision by Argentine authorities regarding the hijacking of the Emtrasur aircraft that has been illegally held in that country since last year.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-12-31). Venezuela agradece apoyo de la Copppal ante provocación del Reino Unido. telesurtv.net La entidad regional señaló que bajo el patrocinio de la Celac y la Caricom se busca lograr una solución negociada a la controversia territorial en la Guayana Esequiba.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-12-31). Venezuela rechaza secuestro ilegal de aeronave de Emtrasur en Argentina. telesurtv.net Denuncia que Justicia de ese país pretende aplicar tratado bilateral entre Buenos Aires y Washington, el cual no aplica a Venezuela, para que EE.UU. se apodere del avión.

teleSUR, lfb, JDO (2023-12-31). Putin felicita a líderes de países aliados por el Año Nuevo. telesurtv.net Envía telegramas de felicitaciones a varios lideres latinoamericanos, entre ellos el presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel; de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, y de Brasil, Lula da Silva.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-12-31). Arriban a Venezuela 207 connacionales provenientes de México. telesurtv.net El regreso de los connacionales es el resultado de los acuerdos migratorios establecidos entre Venezuela y México…

Desinformémonos (2023-12-30). Mexico: more than 8,000 people advance towards Oaxaca in migrant caravan. pressenza.com The more than 8,000 Central and South American migrants who make up the migrant caravan known as the "Exodus of Poverty" continued their journey early this morning from the municipality of Escuintla to Mapastepec, in Chiapas, to reach the state of Oaxaca. | On the fourth day of their journey, the thousands of men, women, and children from Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, and Cuba advanced along the coastal highway of Chiapas to head north. | According to Luis Rey García Villagrán, an activist with the Human Rights Centre for Human Dignification, nine out of ten migrants in the caravan want to s…

Ariadna Eljuri, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-12-30). Venezuela Deploys Military In Response To UK And Guyanese Provocation. popularresistance.org The commander-in-chief of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) of Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro, has ordered the immediate deployment of the "General Domingo Antonio Sifontes" Joint Operation, set to be a series of joint military exercises between various armed personnel of Venezuela that will take place on the eastern Caribbean and the Atlantic Faàßade of Venezuela—near the border with the disputed Essequibo territory—in response to Guyana and the United Kingdom's military provocations. | This announcement was made during his presidential end-of-the-year greeting ceremony to the FA…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-12-30). Two hundred seven Venezuelans repatriated from Mexico. plenglish.com Caracas, Dec 30 (Prensa Latina) A total of 207 repatriated compatriots arrived in Venezuela today from Mexico, as part of the migration agreements agreed upon by presidents Nicolás Maduro and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, respectively.

krish-rad_ind (2023-12-30). Venezuela Condemns Arrival of British Navy Ship in Guyana. orinocotribune.com

teleSUR (2023-12-30). Copppal Condemns British Ship Presence in Guyana's Coast. telesurenglish.net The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (Copppal) condemned and rejected on Friday the presence of a United Kingdom war frigate off the coast of Guyana, at a time when the latter nation and Venezuela have established a frank and direct dialogue. | RELATED: | Copppal President Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, who along with prominent party leaders in the region is pushing for a nego…

noemail (2023-12-30). Brazil expresses concern over Venezuela-Guyana border dispute as naval exercises begin in area. devdiscourse.com Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday it was concerned about a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that intensified this week following Britain's decision to send a warship to Guyana's shores.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-12-31). Presidente Maduro recuerda entrada en vigencia de Constitución venezolana. telesurtv.net El 2 de febrero de 1999, cuando asumió la presidencia, Chávez incluyó en su juramento de Ley su intención de elaborar una nueva Carta Magna.

Claudia Villalona, The Indypendent. (2023-12-31). Mutual Aid Groups, Asylum-Seekers Support Families Facing Eviction. popularresistance.org On Saturday, Dec. 16, hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers gathered at the Fourth Universalist Society on the Upper West Side for the "Posada de Comadres." Coordinated by a coalition of mutual-aid and immigrant-rights groups, the event featured a housing workshop, a resource fair, the distribution of winter clothing and a mobile health clinic that offered basic health services. | Valentina (a pseudonym) and her family, asylum-seekers who fled Colombia, were one of the families present at the event. They are also among the 3,500 families that received an eviction notice from the city earlier in the month. Valen…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-12-31). Denuncian el asesinato de casi 200 líderes sociales en Colombia en 2023. telesurtv.net El número de firmantes de paz ultimados también ha disminuido. En 2023 fueron asesinados 43, siete menos que los 50 registrados en el año 2022.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-12-31). Gobierno colombiano sube el salario mínimo en 12 % para 2024. telesurtv.net El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro manifestó que va "a haber el año entrante un crecimiento del salario real en términos del salario mínimo".

teleSUR, JCM (2023-12-31). Nueva ola de violencia azota la ciudad de Esmeraldas, Ecuador. telesurtv.net La provincia ecuatoriana de Esmeraldas, con costas al océano Pacífico y limítrofe con Colombia, registró un viernes violento, con el reporte de la quema de autos y balaceras.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-12-31). Presidente de Colombia realiza evaluación del año 2023. telesurtv.net "En el 2023 hemos podido disminuir sustancialmente el hambre", manifestó el jefe de Estado colombiano.

scorinoco (2023-12-30). President of Colombia to Adopt Measures to Help Colombian Students Expelled From Argentina. orinocotribune.com The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced that he will adopt measures to help more than 20,000 Colombian students who were studying for free in Argentina and cannot continue their studies there after the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, eliminated free higher education for foreigners. | Petro commented in a post on X that his country will soon receive the students who were receiving higher education in Argentina, who are now "literally expelled," and criticized the measures of his ultra-right Argentinian counterpart. | "We will receive 20,000 Colombian students who were studying for free in Arg…

krish-rad_ind (2023-12-30). President of Colombia to Adopt Measures to Help Colombian Students Expelled From Argentina. orinocotribune.com

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