🇻🇪🇳🇮⛪️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.

🇨🇴📻🎙 Colombia ya tiene su propia "mañanera": el Gobierno de Petro estrena su programa de radio

La administración del Gobierno de Gustavo Petro presentó un programa de noticias en un intento por tener una comunicación más directa con la población.

El programa "Colombia Hoy", que será conducido por funcionarios de la oficina de prensa de la casa de Gobierno, a cargo de Germán Gómez, tendrá una emisión en línea de lunes a viernes, de las 6:00 a las 9.00 horas, el horario de los programas radiales comerciales más escuchados.

Con este programa, Petro se suma al modelo de otros presidentes latinoamericanos que buscan informar directamente a los ciudadanos a través de los medios de comunicación.

📸 Twitter / Gustavo Petro

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🇺🇸 Parole for the US: scammers play with the American dream of Venezuelans

Venezuelans who yearn to find new opportunities in the United States face deception and scams on social networks by people who request up to $10,000 in exchange for being a sponsor to obtain a humanitarian parole, the permission to live temporarily that is granted from October 12, 2022.

One of the Venezuelans who fell into this trap is Yovanna Dimatteo, 38 years old. She told Telemundo that after the announcement of the humanitarian parole program, she saw, together with her husband, a way out of the difficult situation they were going through in Colombia. However, some people he contacted to ask them to be his sponsor asked for between $8,000 and $10,000.

https://elpitazo.net/migracion/parole-para-ee-uu-estafadores-juegan-con-el-sueno-americano-de-venezolanos/