Venezuelan FM meets with his Brazilian counterpart

The meeting was held on Thursday around midnight. It was held as a part of a regional tour during which Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua attempts to elaborate on the Venezuelan crisis and gain support to discuss the issue at the Union of South American Nations rather than the Organization of American States. Jaua's last stopover will be Suriname.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, gathered on Thursday around midnight as part of Jaua's regional tour intended to explain the government's stance on the conflict Venezuela is currently facing.

Official sources told EFE that Jaua arrived by midnight and met with Figueiredo for about an hour.

The press had not access to the meeting, yet the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said information would be disclosed on Friday.

Venezuelan sources have commented that Jaua would probably held a press conference on Friday in Brasilia before leaving for Suriname, his last stopover.

Source: El Universal
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Venezuelan authorities charge at demonstrators in east Caracas

A tree was hit by fire during the demonstration. Locals tried to put out the flames to prevent the tree from falling.

With tear gas and pellets, officers from the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) and the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) broke up a demonstration on Tuesday in Altamira, east Caracas.

Students demonstrating gathered in the area early in the afternoon at La Francia Square. By building barricades, demonstrators closed access in nearby avenues.


A tree was hit by fire during the demonstration. Locals tried to put out the flames to prevent the tree from falling.

Source: El Universal

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European Commission "alarmed" about detention of students in Venezuela

The Commission rejected the detention of dissenters, and called for the end of violence in Venezuela.

The European Commission on Thursday called for the immediate end of violence in Venezuela and said it was alarmed about the detention of students and opposition leaders during demonstrations in recent weeks.


"We reject all acts of violence and intolerance from all sides," remarked Algirdas Semeta, a representative of the European Commission before the European Parliament. He added that "nobody should be detained for exercising their rights to freedom of speech and assembly," AFP reported.

Source: El Universal
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Maduro: Students' reply to the call for dialogue was aggressive

"We will designate a flexible, promoting team of open doors, not at all sectarian or closed"

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro chaired on Friday a roundtable within the framework of the Peace Conference, an initiative implemented last Wednesday. He reasserted his call to the student movement for rapport.

"I called upon the right-wing student movement. (...) I received the reply of some of them yesterday (Thursday). It is a very aggressive, violent wording, more than before. The answer was very bad; they have bad advisors; who knows? I keep on calling upon them in whatever form they want to attend." Maduro noted that students could meet with him, with Vice-President Jorge Arreaza, or in the context of the Peace Conference.

During the meeting, Maduro appointed a promotion and coordination team "for things not to remain in the air, not to be lost." He announced the set up of peace conferences in the province. "It will be as ample as possible in the states of Táchira, Mérida and Miranda."

Maduro praised the message to Venezuela by Pope Francis: "His message to Venezuela is perfect; we fully welcome it."

"We will designate a flexible, promoting team of open doors, not at all sectarian or closed."

Calling Henrique Capriles


Maduro reaffirmed his invitation to opposition leader Henrique Capriles to join the National Peace Conference. "I keep my call to Miranda state government; I suggested a meeting with state governors of Lara, Amazonas," he said at Miraflores presidential palace, before an audience including top authorities of the government branches.

Source: El Universal

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Con rezos y el silencio mujeres rechazaron violencia de la GNB

El silencio de las mujeres gritó ayer contra la represión y tortura de la Guardia Nacional. Miles de ellas marcharon en el oeste de Caracas hasta la sede de la Comandancia General de la Guardia Nacional en El Paraíso, vestidas de blanco y con el silencio en señal de luto como principal consigna. Aproximadamente a las 11:30 am comenzó el recorrido desde la sede de la Conferencia Episcopal de Venezuela, en la urbanización Montalbán. La manifestación estuvo encabezada por Lilian Tintori, esposa de Leopoldo López, la diputadas a la Asamblea Nacional María Corina Machado, Deyalitza Aray y Rosaura Sanz, además de personalidades de la televisión como la actriz Amanda Gutiérrez, la ex Miss Venezuela Cynthia Lander y la modelo y presentadora de televisión Norelys Rodríguez. Una pancarta con el mensaje "mujeres por la vida" marcaba el inicio del grueso de la concentración. Poco a poco, conforme pasaban las calles la manifestación crecía con las personas que se iban sumando a lo largo de la avenida Teherán de Montalbán. Consignas como "y no me da la gana una dictadura como la cubana" quedaron atrás. Oraciones como el Padre Nuestro y el Ave María fueron la compañía de las mujeres que con cinta negra en brazo protestaban contra el trato que han tenido algunos efectivos de la Guardia Nacional en las manifestaciones que se han dado en las últimas dos semanas. Media hora después de iniciado el recorrido sufrió una ligera modificación. Un grupo de simpatizantes del Gobierno, que apenas superaba las 100 personas, se encontraba en la redoma La India, lugar donde desemboca la avenida Teherán y por el cual pasaría la marcha para llegar hasta la Comandancia de la GNB. Un cordón de mujeres de la Policía Nacional Bolivariana desvió la marcha opositora para evitar el encuentro con los chavistas. La marcha de las mujeres rodeó la redoma La India para llegar hasta la avenida Páez de El Paraíso, que las llevaría hasta su punto de llegada. Mientras, el grupo de chavistas les gritaba consignas como "la patria se defiende", otros llegaron a los insultos y descalificaciones, y los motorizados aceleraban sus motos detrás del cordón policial en señal de intimidación. Las mujeres pasaron con sus manos alzadas como muestra de paz, sin mayor revuelo. Una vez en la avenida Páez la marcha, guiada desde el camión de sonido por la dirigente estudiantil Gaby Arellano, continuó sumando más simpatizantes que llegaron hasta la sede de la Comandancia de la GNB a la 1:30 pm. Desde allí se leyó el comunicado con el mensaje que llevaban las mujeres. Recordaron el juramento que hicieron los guardias el cual los llama a defender la Patria "no para la represión de jóvenes, mujeres y ancianos". "Tú puedes desacatar órdenes ilegales. Tú puedes negarte y desobedecer a un superior si te obliga a cometer un delito", señala el documento, donde también se recuerda que los crímenes contra los derechos humanos no prescriben "y puedes terminar en La Haya. No lo olvides", dijeron. La diputada María Corina Machado se dirigió a los manifestantes desde el camión de sonido en la sede de la GNB. Pidió por la liberación de Leopoldo López, Iván Simonovis y los jóvenes manifestantes detenidos. Asimismo, se dirigió al Gobierno sobre el llamado a los carnavales: "A los que decretaron carnavales extendidos les decimos que no dejaremos las calles". Poco después de las 2:00 pm culminó la actividad de las mujeres, quienes recordaron a los guardia "el honor es tu divisa, cumple tu juramento"

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US senator calls for release of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López

"The United States will not look the other way while the democratic aspirations of Venezuelans are viciously trampled," said the democrat senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Democrat Robert Menéndez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made an appeal to the international community on Wednesday to condemn the incarceration of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, detained on Tuesday.

"I call on the international community to join me in condemning the unjust imprisonment of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and the ongoing political persecution of María Corina Machado, Carlos Vecchio and other members of the country's political opposition," Menéndez noted in a statement issued during a visit in Colombia.

"Venezuela cannot be governed through fear, violence and political retribution as President Maduro, members of his security forces, and government supporters are exhibiting on a daily basis," the senator remarked.

Menéndez said, "The United States will not look the other way while the democratic aspirations of Venezuelans are viciously trampled."

Source: El Universal
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