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Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido: Set election date now

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Thursday called on authorities to schedule a date for the country's next presidential vote, after years of bitter clashes with President Nicolas Maduro during a deep economic and social crisis.

Reuters

Venezuela's PDVSA controls fire at small refinery, restarts other plants from outage

A fire caused by a thunderstorm at Venezuela's smallest refinery has been brought under control, a Venezuelan minister said, as the country's largest refining facilities restart following a power outage last week, according to sources.

Reuters

In Florida’s most Hispanic district, Latina politicians spar over immigration and socialism

MIAMI — Not three weeks had passed since Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made headlines all over the country after taking credit for sending planes full of mostly undocumented Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard when U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar — a Cuban American freshman congresswoman from Miami — addressed…

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Repatriation flights start for Venezuelans stuck in Mexico, Panama

A group Venezuelans barred from the U.S. have flown home from Mexico and Panama in the first special flights for migrants since the U.S. enacted tougher border controls this month.

Tribune News Service

Venezuelans halted in Panama by US policy change return home

With dashed dreams and empty hands, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants are stranded in Panama’s capital looking for a way home after surviving the crossing of the Darien Gap only to find that a United States policy change had closed the border to them

The Independent UK

"They shut the door on us": Venezuelans ask Mexico for humanitarian flights home

Ana Villalobos remembers what she went through to get from Venezuela to the United States: going hungry, sleeping in the open and crossing rivers and forests with her young son.

Reuters

First plane repatriating Venezuelan migrants in Mexico departs for Caracas, sources say

A first flight carrying Venezuelan migrants voluntarily returning to their homeland from Mexico departed on Tuesday, according to two Mexican officials.

Reuters

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Radio silence grows in Venezuela as government shutters dozens of stations

In July officials from Venezuela's telecommunications regulator entered the Moda 105.1 FM radio station, in the northwestern state of Cojedes, accompanied by members of the national guard and demanding to see all the station's licensing.

Reuters

Exclusive-U.N. could administer over $3 billion in funds to aid Venezuela - sources

Venezuelan politicians are discussing proposals for a fund that could release over $3 billion to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuela through the United Nations, in a process that also involves officials from the U.S. State and Treasury Departments, according to nine people close to the talks.

Reuters

Colombia urged to push human rights in renewed relationship with Venezuela

Colombia could use its restored diplomatic relations with Venezuela to help curb human rights violations in its neighbor, advocacy group Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Monday.

Reuters

State Department determines Venezuela is wrongfully detaining LA public defender

WASHINGTON — The State Department determined in recent days that Eyvin Hernandez, a 44-year-old deputy public defender from Los Angeles, is being wrongfully detained in Venezuela, U.S. officials and friends of the Hernandez family told McClatchy and the Miami Herald.

Miami Herald

New crisis brewing for Venezuelans turned back at US border

New deal allowing US to send Venezuelan asylum seekers back to Mexico at southern border sows confusion and frustration.

Al Jazeera

The U.S. set a new record for apprehensions at the southern border

Migrants apprehensions at the southern border this past year jumped by 37% compared to the year ago. A growing number of border-crossers are from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

WEKU

UN assembly picks rights guardians

The UN General Assembly on Oct 11 concluded its election for 14 new members in the Human Rights Council.

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Duped by DeSantis in Texas, he came to Florida for Ian cleanup — but was foiled again

MIAMI — Pedro Escalona endured a grueling journey from Venezuela to Texas, made a brief stopover at a San Antonio migrant center, crossed paths with an operative of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — one who promised a free charter flight to Delaware — then learned the flight had been scuttled…

The Independent UK

Illegal border crossings to US from Mexico hit annual high of 2.38 million

U.S. authorities say a surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year

The Independent UK

Venezuelans expelled from US decide next steps in Mexico

In a shelter on Mexico City’s east side, Venezuelan mechanic José Cuicas is waiting anxiously for an American friend to answer his request to sponsor him for one of the 24,000 visas the Biden administration says it will give to Venezuelans

Reuters

Last of plane crew detained in Argentina reach Venezuela

The last five members of an Iran-linked cargo plane grounded in Argentina arrived in Venezuela on Friday, according to footage from Venezuelan state television, after being held in Buenos Aires for nearly four months.

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The Independent UK

Mexico: Migrant crossings down after new rules for Venezuela

Mexico says border crossings by Venezuelans appear to be falling after new U.S. rules on expelling people from the South American nation who arrive by land

Reuters

Venezuela's opposition unwilling to back interim Guaido govt for 2023

Venezuela's opposition parties have warned they are likely to withdraw backing for Juan Guaido's Washington-endorsed interim government in 2023, four people familiar with the matter said, raising questions about the future of the country's overseas holdings.

Zenger

Deadly Floodwaters Rage Through The Venezuelan City Of Maracay

Deadly torrents of brown water rushed through the streets in Maracay, the capital of Venezuela's northern state of Aragua.

The Independent UK

Cash is king for sanctioned Russian, Venezuelan oligarchs

Politically connected billionaires from Russia and Venezuela are at the center of a 49-page criminal indictment that reads like a how-to guide on circumventing U.S. sanctions

Reuters

Repatriation of Venezuelan migrants from Mexico by air to begin soon -sources

Voluntary returns of Venezuelan migrants in Mexico by plane back to their homeland are likely to begin in the next few days, four people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Reuters

Venezuela opposition consider ditching Guaido-led interim government -FT

Venezuela's opposition parties are considering a plan to wind up the country's U.S.-backed interim government led by Juan Guaido, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing a senior figure in the opposition alliance.

Chicago Sun-Times

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