On the other side, all of these demonstrations remained peaceful. Which is good, but it appears that Nicolás Maduro is giving the order to not shut down them.

Reasons may vary, but I think the may reason is that the demonstrations are still not a threat. Teachers are not aiming to overthrow the regime but demanding better salaries, and this is because there is still fear. If situation escalate, that could change.

Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant against opposition leader Julio Borges

🗨 "Today an arrest warrant was requested against Julio Borges, for the crimes of treason, conspiracy and association before the two control court against terrorism", reported the attorney general, Tarek William Saab.

Saab explained that Borges has two prior arrest warrants, one for his direct participation in the theft of state gold deposited in the Bank of England, and another for planning and financing the assassination attempt against the head of state that occurred in August 2018.

The arrest warrant was issued after the opposition leader and fugitive from Venezuelan justice Leopoldo López confirmed in a video that Borges had a direct and essential participation in the April 30, 2019 attempt

🔥🇻🇪 Forget what I said. This is San Felipe, Capital of Yaracuy. Two years ago this town was the epicenter of a hard revolt against the regime.

🇺🇸👨🏻 US government sanctions will remain intact

He stressed that he will keep his sanctions policy intact until concrete steps are taken for the "return of democracy."

"As long as Maduro and his followers continue to repress the Venezuelan people and divert resources to corrupt practices, we will continue to pressure the regime with sanctions." This was stated to EFE by a State Department spokesperson

🇻🇪🏳‍⚧About Transexual “people" in Venezuela.

Woman who claims to be a “man" makes a scandal in the Sambil shopping center in Maracaibo because they did not let her enter the men's bathroom.

Venezuela's request to Interpol for the arrest warrant for Julio Borges was made public, on charges of trespassing, conspiracy and association

Maduro admitted this Tuesday afternoon since the closing of the IV Congress of the CPTT that the income of the country's workers has been affected but he assures that he has defended them: "We have defended them in a thousand ways and we will to continue defending".

🇵🇪 Former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo affirms that he has no intention of fleeing the country

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, who has been in preventive detention since December, assured on January 17 that he does not intend to flee the country.

🗨 "If I have to be held accountable, in all honesty, I will always do so in my country. I have never even had the slightest intention of leaving this country, because I have assumed and continue to assume the most important and sacred mandate that has given this town as president of the Republic," said the former president.

Castillo's statements were made before the Fifth Constitutional Court of Lima, which admitted the habeas corpus that seeks to free the former president

🌊🇻🇪⚠️ Southern areas of Lake Maracaibo continue under water:

A few days after nine months of the rupture of the dam at kilometer 43 of the South of the Lake, agricultural producers denounced that their homes and lands remain flooded.

The producer Mayte Cánovas showed on Tuesday the reality that the inhabitants of the area live and demanded that the National Government attend to the situation because, as she alleged, the work done by private companies has not produced results.

"Our production units are almost in total loss, no one can imagine the damage caused by so much water and for so long, the equipment, fences, facilities in general are in ruins, in addition to the agricultural road that does not have a stone, since that all the granular material was dragged by the current of the Zulia River, which now passes calmly through the almost 230,000 hectares that are submerged," he said.

PSUV-Zulia deputy, Gladys Suárez, confesses that Chavismo is the downfall of the country and dismantles Maduro's lies in a meeting of comrades.

💰🇻🇪 The bolivar has lost 13.5% of its value against the dollar in the first 19 days of the year:

The official price of the dollar in Venezuela surpassed the barrier of 20 bolivars on Thursday, closing the day at 20.29, according to the report of the Central Bank (BCV).

The price of the North American currency in the official market has risen 15.6% so far in 2023, when it started at 17.55 bolivars, 2.74 bolivars less than the current value.

Thus, the local currency -the bolivar- has lost 13.5% of its value against the dollar in the first 19 days of the year.

According the Observatorio Venezolano de Finanzas (OVF), whose statistics are used as a reference given the delays in the publication of official figures, the "danger of a hyperinflationary outbreak" in the country "is gaining strength with the sustained devaluation of the bolivar."

In the parallel market, the dollar closed this Thursday at 22.42 bolivars.

🇵🇪 "You want to break the rule of law and generate chaos to seize power," declared the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, in her message tonight while La toma de Lima, a massive protest taking place in the capital of the Andean country to demand the departure of it and its entire government.

ah yes, most calm - relaxing a peaceful day in South America

🇻🇪⛪️ Nicolás Maduro met this afternoon with a group of evangelical pastors from Venezuela to be blessed.

👨🏻 Government of Maduro admits that "it is obvious that wages are not enough"

Jesús Faría, president of the Economy and Finance Commission of the Chavista Parliament, asserted in an interview for Primera Página on Globovisión that "the salary issue is something very critical" that is not under discussion, while acknowledging that these are low.

“It is obvious that wages are not enough for the population,” he said.

🇻🇪🇪🇸 Zapatero arrived in Caracas to "support" the dialogue

🇻🇪🇵🇦A group of 177 Venezuelans who crossed the Darién jungle returned to their country from Panama, on a humanitarian flight paid for by the government of that country. The migrants left the Tocumen international airport for Maiquetía on January 17.

"This is the first flight of this nature that occurs in 2023, with Venezuelan citizens who entered the country irregularly through the Darién jungle, and who return to their country voluntarily," reported the Panamanian Migration service.

From Rusia Today:

🇨🇳🇷🇺 🇻🇪China and Russia, CELAC partners on the path towards a multipolar world

CELAC will be a key space to consolidate "a multipolar world" with Russia and China as allies, Venezuelan deputy Julio Chávez told Sputnik, seconding the position of Nicolás Maduro. For the legislator, "the time of the peoples" has arrived and the "unipolar hegemony of the United States is in full decline."

The agenda could also contemplate alliances at the military or economic level, such as the establishment of a common currency.

🗨 "The time of the peoples is coming, it is not the time of the empires" assured the legislator, who indicated that there is a transition between the American unipolar hegemony "in full decline" and "the gestation of multipolarity with China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Latin America".