Political Change – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:23:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Political Change – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 How Saab’s Extradition Changed the Game https://onvenezuela.com/how-saabs-extradition-changed-the-game/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-saabs-extradition-changed-the-game Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:23:54 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=11783

The political horizon in Venezuela changed in a matter of days. The same week the country learned of the death of dissident General Raúl Isaías Baduel in prison, the Financial Times published a leaked report by an EU exploratory mission that warned of the consequences of sending an Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) to Venezuela, and Alex Saab, who’s said to be one of the regime’s main frontmen, was finally extradited to the U.S. There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s take it one at a time. Full Text ->CaracasChronicles

Traducción de cortesía -> El horizonte político en Venezuela cambió en cuestión de días. La misma semana que el país se enteró de la muerte en prisión del general disidente Raúl Isaías Baduel, el Financial Times publicó un informe filtrado de una misión exploratoria de la UE que advertía de las consecuencias del envío de una Misión de Observación Electoral (MOE) a Venezuela, y Alex Saab. , quien se dice que es uno de los principales testaferros del régimen, finalmente fue extraditado a los Estados Unidos. Hay mucho que desempacar aquí, así que vamos a analizarlo uno a la vez.

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Top U.S. Diplomat: COVID-19 Could Devastate Venezuela, Unseat Maduro https://onvenezuela.com/top-u-s-diplomat-covid-19-could-devastate-venezuela-unseat-maduro/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-u-s-diplomat-covid-19-could-devastate-venezuela-unseat-maduro Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:38:10 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=2838

Jimmy Story, chargé d’affaires for the U.S. State Department’s Venezuela Affairs Unit, said that if the coronavirus hits as hard as expected, it may finally undercut the last vestiges of support for the embattled leader, who was indicted last month by the U.S. Justice Department for narco-terrorism and drug trafficking.“They are potentially weeks away from going into complete chaos,” Mr. Story said of the country. By Trevor Williams. Full text -> Global Atlanta

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