This Sunday, August 8, 2021, within the framework of an unprecedented deployment in the Covid19 pandemic, the Primary and Open Elections (EPA) of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) were held to define new candidates for mayors and governors of all the municipalities and states of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, that is: 23 governorates and 335 municipalities. It ...
“The Freedom of the New World is the Hope of the Universe” – Simón Bolívar The Bicenttenial Congress in Caracas, Venezuela has convened from June 21st to June 24th and concluded with the “Manifest of the Bicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo”. United World International presents below the complete text of the manifest. Manifest of the Bicentennial of the Battle ...
The Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World (BCPW), under the motto “The union of women and men for the Revolution”, took place in Caracas, from June 21st to June 24th, of 2021. This popular Congress gathered grassroots movements, political parties, labor unions, NGOs, as well as intellectual and social activists, among others, in the capital of Venezuela, to ...
On June 3, 2021, the United States Department of the Treasury announced that it was renewing the operating license for the oil company Chevron (formerly Standard Oil) in Venezuela. This is the seventh license that the US government has given the multinational oil company since January 2019, when then-President Donald Trump reaffirmed sanctions against the Venezuelan oil company Petróleos de ...
Venezuela has experienced a political paradox on January 23, 2019. The then Member of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, proclaimed himself, in a plaza in the east of Caracas, “president in charge” of the Caribbean country, and gradually began to receive the support of the International Community, read from the Trump Administration, and other countries that gravitate in the imperialist orbit. In ...
Following the transition from the Trump to the Biden Administration, US-Venezuela relations keep on being on the Latin American agenda. United World International spoke with Carlos Ron, Vice Minister for North America of the Ministry for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and President of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, on US-Venezuela relations, ...
On February 28, the first anniversary of the installation of Community Governments was commemorated in one of the main states of Venezuela, Miranda. The governor of Miranda, Héctor Rodríguez, stressed that “Community Governments strengthen participatory democracy, as well as social policies” in Revolution, especially against the background of pandemic and an international US blockade that strongly affects the Venezuelan population. ...
The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela extended an invitation to an expert in International Law and International Relations, Ms. Alena Douhan, in her role as Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on human rights. This is the name of the Mandate that, in 2014, the UN Human Rights Council resolved to establish due to ...
Every January 6, “Three Kings Day” is celebrated in most countries with Christian (particularly Catholic) roots. In Venezuela, the custom is that the day before on January 5, the children place their slippers at the door of their rooms so that the Kings (Melchor, Gaspar, and Baltasar) can leave gifts there for those who have behaved well throughout the year. ...
In this Sunday’s parliamentary elections, the people of Venezuela, in spite of the criminal US imperialist blockade, came out to defend democracy and the Bolivarian Revolution. This time, as has been the case in all of the latest electoral processes in Latin America (for example, in Brazil just a few days ago) citizen participation has dropped significantly. There are multiple ...
Venezuela: a convincing victory for Maduro After long expectations, the Venezuelan legislative elections went smoothly. President Nicolas Maduro, whose PSUV’s bloc (the United Socialist Party of Venezuela) received 67.6% of votes, called on the opposition to resume dialogue in the new National Assembly. The Democratic Alliance took 17.95% of the votes, the United Venezuela Alliance obtained 4.19%, the Popular Revolutionary ...
Unexpected mediator Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid an official visit to the Venezuelan capital Caracas in August. He met with President Nicolas Maduro and signed new cooperation agreements. The visit was mainly of an economic nature. However, on September 2, Mevlüt Çavusoğlu confirmed that Turkey had mediated negotiations between the Venezuelan authorities and the opposition. Representatives of the Venezuelan ...