Venezuela

Cuba on March 10 offered its "unconditional support" to Venezuela after US President Barack Obama authorized new sanctions against senior officials of the South American oil producer, Havana's closest ally.
      
An official statement published in the island's state-run media called Obama's executive order implementing the sanctions "arbitrary and aggressive."        

US President Barack Obama classified Venezuela as a “threat to national security” of the USA.

This characterization is included in the executive order issued by the US president, with which he also imposed sanctions on seven individuals and clarified Washington D.C.’s worry on the treatment that political adversaries of the Venezuelan government, receive.

Venezuela paid tribute Thursday to leftist firebrand Hugo Chavez two years after his death, but the movement he founded faces its worst approval ratings ever amid a deepening economic crisis.
      

Novinite.com is interviewing Sofia-based ambassadors of EU member states as well as Bulgaria's main trading partners and neighbouring countries.

Here we provide an interview with Venezuela's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Her Excellency Orietta Caponi.

“Did you know there’s an oil war? And the war has an objective: to destroy Russia,” said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a live television speech last week. “It’s a strategically planned war … also aimed at Venezuela, to try and destroy our revolution and cause an economic collapse.

BELGRADE - The first Venezuelan Culture Week will be held at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade from October 27-31.

The event will be organized by the Venezuelan Embassy and the Ethnographic Museum.

The Istanbul Music Festival hosts the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela on June 10, while Music for Peace Foundation will perform on the same date One of the important events of the ongoing 42nd Istanbul Music Festival will be held on June 10 with a concert by Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela with 240 performers.

BELGRADE - Young Venezuelan singer-songwriter Jose Alejandro Delgado and his trio will perform in Serbia on May 20-22 as part of their European tour, the Venezuelan embassy in Serbia has announced.

Venezuela's government and opposition representatives made their first breakthrough in negotiations called to wind down tensions in the country.

After five hours of negotiations, the two sides agreed to enhance the strength and role of the Truth Commission that would investigate into the violence rocking Venezuela since February, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro agreed to meet opposition leaders, after weeks of violent street protests.

The talks, which are expected to put an end to the wave of unrest which has left 39 people dead, will be held Tuesday in Venezuela's capital Caracas.