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Oliver Blanco, un político surgido de la oposición para dirigir la diplomacia venezolana

Delcy Rodríguez ha reestructurado el frente internacional del Ejecutivo con cambios clave en la Cancillería. Se trata de una nueva etapa con la que maniobra ante la aparente aceleración de las transformaciones en Venezuela, un proceso en el que busca asegurarse un lugar. El nombramiento de Oliver Blanco al frente de las relaciones exteriores resulta significativo: con este movimiento, Rodríguez emite señales de que ella también empuja la transición. Blanco es licenciado en Estudios Internacionales y hace solo unos días completó un máster en Gobierno y Políticas Públicas; sin embargo, su carrera diplomática comenzó apenas hace unos meses. Su mayor activo en el convulso tablero político actual es no pertenecer al chavismo. “Defenderé nuestra soberanía y el interés nacional trabajando siempre para alcanzar benificios concretos para la gente”, dijo Blanco al recibir el aceptar el cargo. Señaló que el momento obliga a “construir desde las diferencias” un país en el que “todos tengan un lugar”, sin exclusiones ni discriminación.

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Oliver Blanco hablando en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía (Venezuela), el 30 de abril.
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María Corina Machado, en sus primeras declaraciones desde su regreso a Venezuela: “La transición democrática es irreversible”

La líder de la oposición venezolana María Corina Machado ha afirmado este jueves en sus primeras declaraciones desde que regresó al país de que en en su país no se repetirá la represión contra la población. “En Venezuela habrá memoria, justicia y reparación. Y, sobre todo, no repetición. Nunca jamás un venezolano sufrirá el terrorismo de Estado”, prometió. También afirmó de que, según el plan diseñado por el secretario de Estado estadounidense Marco Rubio, habrá elecciones en 2027. “La transición democrática es irreversible y será organizada, pacífica y atenderá la urgencia de un país que está sufriendo enormemente”, afirmó Machado.

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María Corina Machado, este jueves en Caracas.
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Marco Rubio says US told Venezuelan officials ‘weeks and weeks ago’ that María Corina Machado should be allowed to return

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Monday that the United States told Delcy Rodríguez’s regime “weeks and weeks ago” that opposition leader María Corina Machado should be allowed to return to Venezuela.

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María Corina Machado and Marco Rubio in Washington, in March.
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The opposition returns to the streets in Venezuela after María Corina Machado’s return: ‘She’s coming to step on the accelerator’

It was a long and emotional day for thousands of Venezuelans who could not believe it when they heard on Sunday morning that the opposition leader María Corina Machado had returned to Venezuela. When her message started circulating on cellphones — “I am here. With you.” — thousands of supporters of Machado and opponents of Chavismo began pouring into the streets to follow her slow march to the capital, Caracas, in an epic demonstration of Venezuelans shedding the fear of repression that had been holding them back for so long.

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Supporters of María Corina Machado in Valencia, Venezuela.
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María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela

After nearly 10 months abroad, María Corina Machado, the anti-Chavista opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has returned to Venezuela. “I am here, with you,” the opposition figure wrote on social media on Sunday morning.

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Supporters welcome María Corina Machado this Sunday at the Divina Pastora Shrine in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
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A new Supreme Tribunal for Venezuela, rushed and without clear rules

Washington has stepped on the accelerator to renew Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal. It is its first major democratizing initiative in the country and the main task of the negotiation table between the 2015 National Assembly and the government of Delcy Rodríguez, which meets again this Wednesday. The goal is to have a new court by December, but beyond the outline the United States published last week, nothing is as yet known about the timetables, the profiles sought, the procedures to challenge appointments and how civil society will take part in a process crucial to a country that is supposedly moving toward a democratic transition.

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Ceremony at the Supreme Justice Tribunal in Caracas, in January 2024.
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Pressure mounts on Maduro’s inner circle after Álex Saab ally is turned over to the US

The government of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez has handed Álvaro Pulido — Álex Saab’s Colombian-born associate who had been held in Caracas since 2023 — over to the United States. The transfer was announced Sunday on X by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, while the Venezuelan government has remained silent on the case.

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Mugshot of Álvaro Pulido.
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How Venezuela pushed aside a local oil company to make way for new US partners: ‘They simply took the assets and disappeared’

The heirs of Oswaldo Cisneros, once one of Venezuela’s richest men, received unusual news last April: strangers were touring their oil fields in the Orinoco Belt. On paper, they remained the legitimate operators of the assets, but it soon became clear that, even as those visits took place in plain sight, a plan was being put in motion to take the fields away from them.

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The LPG tanker Chrysopigi Lady carries a cargo of Venezuelan liquefied petroleum gas to the United States.
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