👀 Chavista National Assembly appoints Larry Devoe as the acting attorney general

In 2019, he was sanctioned by the Canadian government and included in the list of officials who are "responsible for or complicit in serious violations" of human rights, "significant acts of corruption", or both.

https://t.me/VenezuelaNetwork/19208

NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón calls for amnesty to be applied to 204 military personnel detained for political reasons

Maria Corina Machado thanks Sweden for support for a "peaceful transition" in Venezuela

The opposition leader pointed out on Tuesday that the immediate release of all political prisoners is not just a demand, "but an undeniable moral imperative"

Bloomberg: BCV sells nearly six tons of gold amid dollar shortage

The sales were concentrated in December, when the tightening of oil sanctions deepened the exchange rate gap and revived fears of hyperinflation

https://laverdad.com/bloomberg-bcv-vende-casi-seis-toneladas-de-oro-en-medio-de-la-escasez-de-dolares/

⚠️🇺🇸👀😂 Maduro ran out of budget for his defense in the United States.

Nicolás Maduro's legal team asked a federal judge in New York to force the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to release Venezuelan state funds, arguing that the former leader lacks his own resources to pay for the trial.

Attorney Barry J. Pollack sent a letter on February 20, 2026 to Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to complain about the blocking of the accounts.

In the court document, the defense argued that the economic sanctions violate the constitutional rights of the defendant.

"Venezuela would do it, and Mr. Maduro cannot pay a lawyer otherwise," the legal firm justified in the text.

The defenders accused the US agency of sabotaging the process by denying access to the Caribbean nation's public coffers.

"By not allowing the Venezuelan government to pay for Mr. Maduro's defense costs, OFAC interferes with Mr. Maduro's ability to retain a lawyer and, therefore, with his right to a lawyer of his choice under the Sixth Amendment," the firm claimed in court.

https://alertas24.com/defensa-de-maduro-denuncia-que-el-mandatario-no-puede-pagar-abogados-privados/

Marco Rubio affirms that the elections in Venezuela will be necessary to legitimize the process of change https://bit.ly/4aFqTnG

⚠️🇻🇪 Conatel closed the Urbana 94.3 FM station in Guatire and confiscated its equipment

Vente Venezuela denounces the confiscation of María Corina Machado's assistant's house in Caracas

The chavista regime confiscated the house of Laura Acosta, the personal assistant of opposition leader María Corina Machado.

"From a legal point of view, it's a case of pure and simple confiscation (by de facto, without a procedure and without a legitimate cause) of that property,"

🇻🇪 Amena Bakr

According to sources familiar with the matter US sanctions could be lifted off Venezuela within days

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Workers protest in front of the Ministry of Labor to demand a general wage increase

https://alertas24.com/trabajadores-protestan-frente-al-ministerio-de-trabajo-para-exigir-aumento-general-de-sueldos/

🤡🇻🇪🇷🇺 Russia says Maduro is still the legitimate president of Venezuela and demands his immediate release

https://alertas24.com/rusia-dice-que-maduro-sigue-siendo-el-presidente-legitimo-de-venezuela-y-exige-su-liberacion-inmediata/

⚠️🇻🇪🇺🇸😂😁 Delcy Rodríguez calls Trump a "partner and friend" and asks him to lift sanctions against Venezuela

⚠️ Jonathan Carrillo, the last journalist who remained detained in Venezuela, was released

⚠️🇻🇪 Reuters: Delcy Rodríguez's regime suspended 19 oil and gas contracts signed by Maduro

According to Reuters, sources familiar with the matter told the international media that the cancellation of the agreements has not affected Venezuela's oil and gas production so far.

The governments of Venezuela and the United States are examining the credentials of the companies that signed those contracts. Similarly, some of these companies are little known and the agreements were signed while Venezuela was under US sanctions.

The contracts under scrutiny include projects that have recently started producing oil in high-demand areas such as Lake Maracaibo, large projects aimed at expanding production in the Orinoco Oil Belt, and small mature oil fields.