🇻🇪🚔🗣️ Yukpas took control of the GNB alcabala in Zulia:

A group of Yukpas took control of the GNB alcalbala in Rosario de Perijá, Zulia state.

The indigenous people were going to Caracas to ask the president to attend to the needs and deficiencies of the communities

🇻🇪🏳️‍🌈🗣️ LGBTI community of Venezuela demanded an answer about their rights:

LGBTI activists in Venezuela demanded this Tuesday from the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) a definitive response to requests such as equal marriage, recognition of gender identity and the annulment of an article of the Code of Military Justice that punishes with up to three years of imprisonment. jail homosexual relations

Representatives of the collective requested a "definitive pronouncement" on some demands introduced since 2015 by the civil association Venezuela Egalitaria.

"They are not guaranteeing our right to our physical and emotional integrity, there are no public policies that are oriented towards that objective (...) and, for this reason, we are also concerned about the growing space that is being given to anti-rights groups within State institutions," said Yendri Velásquez, a member of the LGBTI Violence Observatory.

general secretary of the Venezuelan Teachers Federation , Carmen Teresa Marquéz, indicated that teachers and other public sector workers will continue the protest actions demanding a "decent wage."

"The Venezuelan teachers have been in protest since January 9 because their salaries do not allow them to acquire the basic basket," said Marquéz.

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪🇭🇹 A Venezuelan and three others implicated in the death of the former president of Haiti were arrested in Florida

US federal agents arrested this Tuesday, February 14, four more suspects, including the owner of a Miami security company, for the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, committed on July 7, 2021, according to the Southern District Attorney's Office. from the state of Florida.

The Venezuelan-American Antonio Intriago, 59 years old and owner of the US security company CTU Security, was arrested and accused, among other charges, of "conspiring to provide resources to kill or kidnap a person outside the United States," he said in press conference the prosecutor Markenzy Lapointe.

FANB shoot down a hostile plane in Falcón airspace

🇺🇸🇻🇪 US prosecutors ask to freeze "Humanitarian Parole" for Venezuelans

https://elpublicotv.com/fiscales-de-eeuu-piden-congelar-parole-humanitario-para-venezolanos/

🦠🇦🇷Argentina declares a health emergency after detecting cases of avian flu in the north of the country

In the framework of a press conference, the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina, Juan José Bahillo, said that the authorities were aware of the spread of the virus in wild birds throughout the American continent.

"Our National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (SENASA) confirmed the detection of the avian influenza virus in wild birds, in the Andean goose species in the province of Jujuy. It forces us to declare a health emergency in our territory," he declared. Bahillo.

The official added that it was impossible to prevent the virus from reaching the country because it is a disease that is commonly transmitted among migratory birds, which frequently travel to Argentina from the north of the continent.

🇮🇷🇻🇪Iranians will modify the Paraguaná refinery, but there will be no chemicals for its operation

In the coming weeks, the state oil companies of Iran and Venezuela are expected to begin renovation of the Paraguaná Refining Complex – the largest in the country – with the aim of restoring crude distillation capacity in 100 days, according to information from sources cited by Reuters.

In this sense, the chemical engineer and former manager of the Paraguaná Refining Center, Emilio Herrera, rejected that the government of Nicolás Maduro intends to make modifications and replacement of parts in the distillation units without considering the need to have the chemical products that are mandatory plants require

🇳🇮Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship

Appeals Court Justice Ernesto Rodríguez Mejía stated 94 "traitors" would have their properties confiscated.

People on the list were accused of "spreading false news" and "conspiracy to undermine national integrity."

Most of those named fled Nicaragua when President Daniel Ortega began arresting opponents two years ago.

#Nicaragua

☠️ Blood Meridian

🇻🇪🇳🇮⛪️Venezuelan Episcopal Conference expressed its solidarity on Wednesday with the Church of Nicaragua in "these moments of difficulties that they are experiencing", which continues with "attentive concern" due to the expulsion and imprisonment of religious from the Central American country.

The Venezuelan bishops, together with their presbyteries, expressed their concern about the "latest events that are marking the life and ministry" of the Church "in the sister nation of Nicaragua", including "the expulsion of priests, deacons, seminarians and religious". , in addition to the "prosecution and imprisonment of the dear brother Rolando Álvarez."

🇻🇪🇨🇴🗣️ Gustavo Petro meets at the Venezuelan border with Nicolás Maduro:

The presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, meet on the Venezuelan side of the border of both countries for the first time to sign a trade agreement.

Precisely, the Colombian ambassador in Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, confirmed that they are already at the Tienditas bridge, where the meeting takes place.

Among the key issues, a trade agreement stands out, which will serve to deepen diplomatic relations between both parties.

🇪🇸🇻🇪 Spain grants nationality to 71 Venezuelans by Grandchildren Law

The Embassy of Spain in Caracas reported that, this Thursday, February 16, 71 new Spaniards who acquired nationality through the Democratic Memory Law, known as the Grandchildren Law, swore to the Constitution.

With the Democratic Memory Law approved by Spain and in force since October 2022, access is facilitated for the grandchildren and children of Spaniards who first fled the Civil War and those who went into exile for political reasons during the (based) Franco regime

📣 NA (National Assembly) approves appointment of former president of Corpozulia as ambassador to Colombia

They appointed Carlos Eduardo Martínez as the new ambassador to Colombia, replacing Félix Plasencia, who did not serve half a year in office.

Martínez was Venezuela's ambassador to Argentina, between 2011 and 2018, and is currently the representative of the Caribbean country, as a companion, in the peace negotiations between the Government of Colombia and the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN).

🇦🇼 Aruba proposes to reopen the maritime border with Venezuela in May

"On May 1, we could open maritime borders, if the necessary documentation is sent by Venezuela no later than March 31," Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes' office said in a statement, without specifying the required documents.

vehicular traffic to Colombia was enabled at night through the Simón Bolívar international bridge, in the state of Táchira, seven years after its closure.

Teachers once again took to the streets in Cumaná, Sucre state, to demand a decent wage from the National Government.

From Provea

💰⚠️ Once again, a 4-roll premium toilet paper is worth more than a minimum wage and pension (130 bolivars) in inner Venezuela states.

Maracaibo admin here:

At least in Major supermarkets in my city its 75 bs (kinda 2,79$)

🇧🇷Lula will launch an operation in the Amazon area where Pereira and Phillips were murdered

The actions will take place on February 27 and, that same day, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, and the head of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, among other representatives of the new government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will travel to the site.

The Executive has proposed to put an end to illegal mining and the presence of criminals in the Amazon and this operation will be added to the one launched last week in the Yanomami Indigenous Land reserve to expel nearly 20,000 'garimpeiros' (illegal miners), whose presence has wreaked real havoc among the original peoples.