Venezuela's chief justice asks lawmakers to strip Juan Guaido of immunity taking a step toward prosecuting the opposition leader
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido answers media questions during a gathering of supporters in Caracas, Venezuela April 1, 2019. Venezuela's chief justice on Monday asked lawmakers to strip Juan Guaido of immunity, taking a step toward prosecuting the opposition leader as he seeks to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
In an address on state television, Maduro said he named Igor Gavidia, a 65-year-old electrical engineer who was previously president of state power generator Electrificacion del Caroni, to replace Electricity Minister Luis Motta. “Turkey will continue to support Venezuela, as problems there could affect all of Latin America and even the Caribbean,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a joint news conference alongside his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza in Ankara, Turkey's capital.Maduro imposes 30-day rationing plan
The 30 days will be used to restore stability to the country's electricity and water infrastructure. The blackout began around 7.10 pm , leaving the capital as well as cities including Maracaibo, Valencia, Maracay and San Cristobal without electricity, according to users on social media networks.A plane load of medicine and supplies landed in Caracas, the first of many according to Chinese and Venezuelan officials on hand for the arrival of the aid.
Also on Friday, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crecent Societies were preparing to deliver aid to Venezuela and can start distributing aid to an estimated 650,000 people in around 15 days. The S-300 is a major missile defence programme designed to shoot down aircraft and other missiles that was designed by the Soviet Union. Russian official media in 2012 reported an S-300 shipment to Venezuela.Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido is to be barred from holding public office for 15years , the maximum punishment allowable by law, state comptroller Elvis Amoroso said on Thursday.
The ministry did not provide any further details in its statement about the specialists. It effectively repeated earlier statements about the soldiers' presence in Venezuela. Authorities gave no immediate statements about the outage, which began shortly after 1700 GMT and appeared to have affected as many as 16 of Venezuela's 23 states, according to reports on social media.
That comes three months after the two nations held military exercise s on Venezuelan soil that Maduro called a sign of strengthening relations, but which Washington criticized as Russian encroachment in the region. That comes three months after the two nations held military exercises on Venezuelan soil that Maduro called a sign of strengthening relations, but which Washington criticised as Russian encroachment in the region.
The flights carried officials who arrived to "exchange consultations," wrote Russian government-owned news agency"Russia has various contracts that are in the process of being fulfilled, contracts of a technical military character,"The wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido had a brief message for Maduro on Saturday, following the arrest of her husband's chief of staff this week: "Enough already.
Rodriguez said Guaido's chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, received money from the United States and was a key organiser of the alleged operation.The United States imposed sanctions on state-owned Venezuelan development bank Bandes in response to the arrest of an aide to opposition leader Guaido, saying the government had used it to prop itself up by moving assets abroad.
He confirmed that Roberto Marrero, chief of staff to opposition leader Juan Guaido, had been detained by intelligence agents. The Trump administration came down hard in late January when the US Treasury targeted PDVSA, aimed at depriving Maduro of billions in hard cash from oil production.US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States could impose harsher sanctions on Venezuela in its campaign to oust Maduro.
The US could impose "a lot tougher" sanctions on Venezuela if needed, Trump said, and he also repeated that "all options are open" when dealing with the crisis in Venezuela. He added that the United States is "not looking for anything other than taking care of a lot of people." The moves come after Guaido, the president of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency in January, arguing that Maduro's May 2018 re-election was illegitimate.
The leader of the opposition-controlled National Assembly also drew cheers with his denunciations of Maduro, although he warned that difficult challenges still lie ahead. Late Thursday night, the president of the Allied Pilots Association directed pilots to refuse Venezuela assignments.The United States has revoked the visas of 340 additional people close to Maduro and is considering adding more to the list, the State Department said.
A convoy was seen leaving the US Embassy in Caracas in the morning, and the American flag is no longer flying outside the embassy. The span of decreed public holidays started last Friday, a day after power went out in 22 of Venezuela's 23 states, disrupting transport, causing stockpiled food to rot in fridges and forcing some Caracas residents to source water from sewage outflows as taps ran dry.
The ruling Socialist Party blamed the outage on an act of US sabotage, accusing President Donald Trump of being responsible for several cyber attacks on Venezuela's main dam. The announcement by Tarek William Saab, the attorney general, escalated the Venezuelan government's standoff with Guaido, although there are questions about how aggressively authorities would move against a man who is staunchly supported by the US as well as many Venezuelans.
"This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of US diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on US policy," Pompeo added.Venezuela's National Assembly has declared a state of 'national alarm' following power outages that have left millions in the country without electricity.
“This story is not complete without acknowledging the central role Cuba and Russia have played and continue to play in undermining the democratic dreams of the Venezuelan people and their welfare,” Pompeo told reporters. Guaido and his chief ally, the United States, say Maduro's claims that the US sabotaged the power grid with a "cyberattack" are an attempt to divert attention from the government's own failings.Venezuela is suspending school and business activities on Monday amid a continuing blackout, Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a televised broadcast on Sunday, the second such cancellation since power went out last week.
The rallies unfolded as power and communications outages continued to hit Venezuela, intensifying the hardship of a country paralysed by economic and political crisis. Maduro stepped up verbal attacks on Guaido, calling him “a clown and puppet” in a speech to supporters outside Miraflores, the presidential palace. He scoffed at Guaido’s claim in late January to be interim president of Venezuela, a declaration supported by the United States and about 50 other countries.
“The situation of people with kidney failure is very difficult, critical, we are talking about 95 percent of dialysis units, which today likely hit 100 percent, are paralysed, due to the power outage,” Valencia added.Venezuelan opposition protesters converged on a main avenue in Caracas and other parts of the country, venting their anger over a nationwide power blackout, shortages of basic necessities and the government of President Maduro.
Some protesters elsewhere in the city said lines of police were blocking them from reaching the rally organised by opposition leader Guaido, creating a sense of confusion compounded by the new power shutdown. "We're continuing the battle and victory over the permanent and brutal aggression against our people," Maduro wrote on Twitter.Power returns to some parts of Venezuela
Critics say mismanagement and corruption have had an impact on the power grid, while Maduro blames political rivals. Trump's special representative for Venezuela pledged on Thursday that Washington would "expand the net" of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Maduro's government.
Venezuela's government expelled the German ambassador while press advocacy groups said an American journalist had been detained. Separately, Venezuela's National Press Workers Union said on Twitter that American journalist Cody Weddle was arrested at his home on Wednesday by military counterintelligence agents. Espacio Publico, a free speech group, said he had been accused of treachery and that the agents took his computer and equipment.The United States will impose sanctions on foreign institutions helping to finance President Maduro, the White House said on Wednesday.
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