OAS has demanded a recall referendum in Venezuela; the OAS regional block released a statement, in which the fifteen member states have demanded that the state of Venezuela acts and carries out the referendum this year, and without delay.
On Thursday, the 12th of August, Presidents Nicolas Maduro and Juan Manuel Santos met, and agreed to allow the Venezuelan border with Colombia to be re-opened for 15 hours during this weekend.
The recently nationalized, and now worker-occupied Kimberly-Clark factory in Venezuela has managed to produce more than 2 million sanitary pads, Venezuela Analysis reported, citing the government sources.
The foreign ministers of both countries have discussed the possibility of issuing special IDs for Venezuelan and Colombian border citizens; this is just the first step in the plan of reopening the border completely, after almost a year being closed.
A comment by Melanny Campos
Venezuelans who are committed to the change in Venezuela know that the President of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, together with the government and its allies, have taken action to delay the call for a referendum process against Maduro.
A comment by Melanny Campos
In April of this year, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, had the idea of lessening the food crisis we Venezuelans are currently suffering and that has worsened in the last three years since he assumed political power, by creating local Committees of Supply and Production (CLAP).
There have been 18 food distribution truck robberies in Venezuela in the last 100 days, along the Central Regional Highway.
After Kimberly-Clark Corp’s announcement on Saturday, when the company’s US officials stated that their Venezuelan based personal-care factory will stop the production, the Venezuelan government released a statement saying that it will take over the factory, and provide public funds for the nearly 1000 workers.
A comment by Laura Campiglia
From the moment Nicolás Maduro arrived in office, rumors regarding his nationality emerged. It is believed by the opposition that President Maduro might not have been born in Venezuela, and because he is of Colombian descent (his mother is Colombian), he might possess two nationalities.
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Only three years after Nicolás Maduro took the lead of Venezuela, following the reign of Hugo Chávez, the once oil-rich state collapsed catastrophically. Today, Venezuela’s economic crisis has left the images of hungry and angry desperate crowds, empty stores, and riots; the inflation has never been higher. Are these images suggesting that Maduro’s government is …
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