Police force in Caracas

🇻🇪🇦🇷President Alberto Fernández said that Maduro "is more than invited" to the CELAC summit, which will meet in Buenos Aires on Tuesday.

"As far as I know, it will come," said the president in an interview with the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, referring to N. Maduro

In addition, he stated that "Argentina's position in relation to Venezuela is, through the Contact Group, to stimulate dialogue" between the government and the opposition. “We believe that they can give good results,” he said.

👨🏻❌🇦🇷 Maduro suspends his trip to the CELAC summit due to the strong repudiation in Argentina

The Chavista regime confirmed this Monday that Nicolás Maduro canceled his trip to Argentina for the CELAC summit, given the strong rejection expressed by various sectors of society for his possible visit.

The suspension of the trip came to light after the Brazilian government reported that the Venezuelan regime had canceled a bilateral meeting with President Lula da Silva, which was scheduled for 4:00 pm this Monday in Buenos Aires.

Uncertainty remained until the last minute about the decision that the Venezuelan president would make, while in Argentina the signs of repudiation of his presence in the country increased.

Over the weekend there were protests rejecting the visit of the Latin American dictators and even politicians, diplomats, academics and human rights defenders, grouped in the Argentine Forum for Democracy (FADER), filed a criminal complaint so that Argentine Justice initiates an investigation against Maduro for crimes against humanity in Venezuela.

🇻🇪 🌎 President Maduro of Venezuela at the VII CELAC Summit:
"The time has come for CELAC to begin to build itself from within with a clear vision of what the future of our countries should be and the need to gradually lay solid foundations in favor of the union."

literally 1984

🧐💰🇻🇪 Gap between private and public worker salaries reached 200%

The Observatorio Venezolano de Finanzas (OVF) presented this Tuesday its monthly report on worker remuneration, which estimates that the average salary in the private sector, referring to the trade and services sector of the Caracas Metropolitan Area, was in December 2022 at US$139 per month.

The OVF recorded that the average remuneration for a managerial position was US$308 per month, for a professional and technician at US$198 per month and for a laborer or operator at US$127 per month.

Thus, the average remuneration of the private sector (US$139 per month) was significantly higher than the minimum wage plus bonuses of US$14 per month earned by more than five million workers, including public administration assets and Social Security pensioners.

🚨💰 Maduro, FARC and others are sentenced to pay 153 million per lawsuit

https://elpublicotv.com/condenan-a-maduro-otras-autoridades-y-las-farc-a-pagar-153-millones-por-demanda/

🇵🇾🇻🇪🗣️ Paraguay: "We cannot look aside when there are 7 million Venezuelan refugees"

The President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, called on the leaders attending the VII Celac Summit on Tuesday to address the situation experienced by the Venezuelan diaspora.

"We cannot look aside when more than seven million Venezuelans have left their homes asking for refuge," said the Paraguayan president in what was his last intervention in this forum, since his term ends this year.

In his speech before the CELAC plenary, Benítez pointed out that "just as" the acts of violence that occurred in Peru and Brazil are worrying, "so is" the "mass exodus" from Venezuela.

🇵🇪 Dina Boluarte : "Puno is not Peru" ; criticism rains down on her

The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, once again provoked the indignation of the citizenry, in the midst of the protests demanding her resignation, by declaring on January 24 that "Puno is not Peru" during a press conference with journalists from the foreign press association in the Andean country.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇹🇹 US grants a license to Trinidad to develop a gas field in Venezuelan waters

The license issued by the US, at the request of the Trinidadian government, means that the island will be able to resume business with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA related to the Dragon gas field.

One official commented that "the Maduro regime will not be allowed to receive any cash payments from this project" and that all remaining US sanctions will remain unchanged and still apply

Prosecutors demand Biden's plan to give visas to migrants from Cuba and Venezuela

President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, announced this Wednesday (01.25.2023) that the country will restore consular relations with Venezuela.

In a press conference after the Governing Council, Chaves indicated that there are currently some 25,000 Venezuelans who have a file with the Immigration Directorate but there are around 94,000 pending applications, although many of them have already left the country, others require assistance consular.

"Once the government of Juan Guaidó is canceled, we are going to regularize consular relations so that those Venezuelans have someone to organize their needs and that Costa Ricans in Caracas have support to consult, possibly through a third country and thus avoid budgetary expenses," explained Foreign Minister Arnoldo André.

Costa Rica broke off its relations with Venezuela in 2020 after the government of Nicolás Maduro withdrew the credentials of the then Costa Rican business manager in Caracas, Danilo González, who was the highest-ranking representative.

"The diplomatic position is not changing, what we want is for issues of human rights and well-being of the people, so that they have access to services. It is to reestablish consular relations, do not make interpretations that go beyond that, Chaves said.

🇻🇪🗳️More than 5 million Venezuelans abroad are not eligible (or available) to vote

The National Youth Vote coordinator, Wanda Cedeño, indicated that one of the things to be improved by the National Electoral Council is "electoral registration", given that at this moment there are millions of young people who are not registered.

"Since 2018, the electoral registry for Venezuelans abroad has not been opened, which means that more than five million Venezuelans have probably not been able to update their data, they have not been able to register," she asserted.

Cedeño stressed that it is necessary to reestablish consulates, evaluate infrastructures, and activate electoral records in several nations, taking into account the number of Venezuelans in the world

Aragua, More protest over teacher's wage

🇻🇪⚖️🚔 Human rights defender María Fernanda Rodríguez arrested after meeting with the UN high commissioner:

Human rights defender María Fernanda Rodríguez was detained after she participated in a meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner, Volker Türk, during her visit to Caracas.

The complaint was made by the director of Access to Justice, Ali Daniels, who reported that Rodríguez was detained by government agents this Wednesday morning at the Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas.