Alonso Moleiro

Chavismo is recruiting citizens with no military experience in the event of a possible war scenario

The government understands that the US warships anchored in the Caribbean Sea are not focusing on alleged drug shipments as much as they are on President Maduro and his closest aides

The Maduro regime also released images of fighter jets armed with anti-ship missiles

Operation Caribe Soberano 200, a response to the U.S. military deployment in the region, will mobilize 2,500 soldiers on the island of La Orchila

The Venezuelan government says it has deployed troops to the border and insists that the flow of drugs through its territory is minimal

The Venezuelan government has announced a massive recruitment drive, while Washington has stepped up its warnings after a week of heightened tensions

The state of maximum alert declared by President Maduro is clashing with the priorities of the population, which lives day-to-day in permanent economic stress

Chavismo responds to Washington’s maneuvers with troop mobilizations, enlistment campaigns and nationalist messages

Maduro is increasing the pressure on critical voices within Chavismo, while the White House assures that it will use ‘every element’ of power to curb the narco trade

The Venezuelan government is promoting support for the ‘military-police-popular fusion’ in support of the president

The multinational intends to produce 1.2 million barrels per day in the short term

The two countries have signed 600 cooperation projects, but the days of generous economic aid are over

Hugo ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal, who broke with Nicolás Maduro in 2019, is accused of drug trafficking and narco-terrorism, and could face a life sentence

Chavismo allegedly won 82.6% of the vote and nearly all governorships, amid widespread abstention. María Corina Machado praised the population for ‘not heeding the regime’s call’

Chavismo is poised to dominate next Sunday’s vote, boycotted by the majority opposition sector

Maduro has signed several energy agreements with Putin, while Vice President Delcy Rodríguez visited Shanghai to close deals

The US president’s hostility toward the diaspora raises doubts about Washington’s true interest in a transition to democracy in Venezuela

The criminalization of migrants, the uncertainty surrounding sanctions against the Venezuelan government, and the US president’s interests further exacerbate the country’s political crisis

Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Assembly and Maduro’s main political operative, says that the laws promoted by Donald Trump are comparable to ‘the racial laws of Nazi Germany’

The Maduro government is accusing the oil company of lobbying to facilitate competitor Chevron’s departure from Venezuela, while also claiming multi-billion-dollar oil wells in Guyana as its own

The slight economic growth of recent years could be hampered by fiscal imbalances

Seventh in Latin America, 50th in the world, the Venezuelan army stands out for its aviation, its anti-missile system, its tank squadron and the strategic nature of its National Militia

The modest recovery of recent years fails to mask Venezuela’s crisis: a shattered productive structure, poverty levels nearly three times the regional average, and profound inequality

Opposition candidate Edmundo González, who had promised to return to the country and be the one to be sworn in as president, remains in Dominican Republic

Nicolás Maduro’s government launches a fresh wave of arrests against opponents, activists and foreign citizens while the opposition says that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, will be sworn in on Friday

A reconstruction of the last six months of turmoil in Venezuela following the July elections, highlighting the opposition’s accusations of fraud, the exile of González Urrutia, the presentation of the paper tallies, the repression and persecution of Chavismo, and the growing tension leading up to the inauguration on January 10

President Nicolás Maduro has practically sealed off the capital against Edmundo González’s intention to take office on Friday as the next president of Venezuela