🇵🇪 The number of deaths rises to 9 after the protests in Puno, Peru

Nine people have lost their lives amid the indefinite strike and citizen protests demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, after clashes between law enforcement and protesters, the Ombudsman's Office reported on January 9.

After a truce for the end of the year, on Wednesday, January 4, Peruvians began a general protest with the main objectives of having President Dina Boluarte resign from office and take responsibility for the people killed in repressive acts during the mobilizations of recent weeks. .

They also ask to dissolve the current congress and convene a constituent assembly.

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Poverty and “easy money" triggering sex work in Venezuela

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The first vice president of the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, assured this Monday that the people "have been waiting for legal actions" against the opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

"A large part of Venezuelans have been waiting for legal action for some time, and I'm not talking about Chavismo, (there is) a sector of the opposition population that feels cheated, not only by Guaidó but also by all that leadership and they are waiting for legal action," Cabello said during a press conference broadcast on the VTV channel.

Cabello affirmed that he respects the decisions of the Public Ministry (MP), however, he emphasized that the people "expect justice and it is necessary for there to be peace in this country."

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Venezuela orders the arrest of the former deputies who replaced Guaidó and who were appointed to a commission that would be in charge of Venezuelan assets abroad.

Opposition leader Juan Guaidó considered President Nicolás Maduro "defeatable" on Monday, if, in the face of the 2024 presidential elections, the Venezuelan opposition "overcomes the fractures" that brought the end of his symbolic "interim government."

«The problem is not Maduro, or rather, the problem we have today is to reunite the democratic alternative. Once the democratic alternative is reunited, Maduro is 100 percent defeatable (…). Facing the possibility of a free and fair election," Guaidó said

The soldier Igbert Marín Chaparro, a lieutenant considered a political prisoner, completed 50 days on a hunger strike on Tuesday to demand respect for his rights, among which are being able to receive calls from his relatives, reported the NGO Control Ciudadano.

The organization indicated, in a press release, that Marín -detained since March 2018 at the Dgcim headquarters in Caracas- will end the hunger strike when four requirements are met, such as going out into the prison yard to “sunbathe".

🇻🇪🇺🇸🛢️ Chevron's first shipment of Venezuelan crude after license sets sail for the United States:

Chevron Corp's first shipment of Venezuelan crude has left a ship-to-ship transfer center near Aruba to its Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery.

Chevron's Caribbean Voyager tanker this week transferred the shipment of 500,000 barrels of Hamaca heavy crude it had loaded in Venezuela to the Malta-flagged Sealeo at a transfer center near the Caribbean island of Aruba, according to maritime monitoring data from Refinitiv eikon.

Another cargo of Venezuelan crude chartered by Chevron aboard the oil tanker Kerala was on Tuesday in the Lake Maracaibo navigation channel, where a lack of dredging and a stranded ship are creating limitations for vessel transit.

Colombia's Ambassador in Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, in an interview with Emisora ​​Atlántico, affirmed that the National Government maintains an interest in buying the company Monómeros.

"This afternoon we are going to have a meeting with the Venezuelan Government to discuss the issue," the diplomat noted

🇵🇪The anti-government protests spread this Wednesday in southern Peru, where protesters clashed with the security forces in Cuzco, while the request for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte is maintained after the deaths of 17 civilians and a police officer in the southern Andean city of Juliaca.

The demonstrations brought together hundreds of people, a large part of them peasants who came from towns in the interior to the capitals of the regions of Cuzco, Ayacucho, Apurímac, Arequipa and Tacna (near Chile Border)

🛢🇨🇴🇻🇪 Ecopetrol asked the United States for permission to negotiate with PDVSA

As explained by the same company, "being a mixed economy company registered on the New York Stock Exchange, it must respect and comply with the sanctions issued by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control."

Ecopetrol requested on November 30, 2022, a general license from OFAC to be able to eventually carry out different commercial activities with PDVSA.

🇷🇺🇻🇪 Venezuela negotiates more flights with Russia and will participate in the international cruise fair in the US

The Minister of Tourism of Venezuela, Ali Padrón, reported this Wednesday that he is in negotiations with Russia to increase the number of flights between the two countries, up to four per week, to promote tourism in the country.

In addition, he pointed out that, after "many years" of having been "unilaterally excluded", Venezuela will participate in the "largest international cruise fair in the world", Seatrade, which will be held next March in Florida, United States, where the South American country is going to “present its proposal”.

Bloomberg: Reopening of the US embassy in Venezuela is not yet an item on Biden's agenda

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⚒️🔥Yesterday workers of **SIDOR,** the largest steel state-owned corporation continued another day of strike claiming for a better salary.

This is added to the new wave of protests organized by teachers all across the country.

The venezuelan regime that has made clear political victories against a weak and divided opposition, has not yet solved economic problems such as inflation and low salaries.