Venezuela abandons US dollar in favour of euro for international transactions
CARACAS - Venezuela is abandoning the US dollar and all future transactions on the Venezuelan exchange market will be made in euros, Tareck El Aissami, the country’s vice president for economy, has announced. Financial More...
Curaçao flooded by refugees: ‘crisis unacceptable’
WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao is currently being flooded with refugees from Venezuela, but there is a total lack of help on the island. "The situation is worrisome and unacceptable," says Tineke Ceelen, director of Refugee More...
EU: For the time being no new sanctions against Venezuela
LUXEMBURG - The European Union is not taking any new sanctions against Venezuela for the time being. The foreign ministers decided this at a meeting in Luxembourg. "But there is no question of a softening of the More...
UN Refugee Agency ramps up support for Venezuelans
CARACAS - With the help of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Colombia is showing “extraordinary solidarity” towards Venezuelans displaced amid the country’s on-going economic and political crisis, said agency More...
Letter to Curaçaoan and Dutch Authorities on Venezuela Asylum Seekers
To Kajsa Ollongren, Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relation Raymond Knops, State Secretary Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Stef Blok, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Kingdom of the Netherlands Quincy More...
Venezuela prisons ‘beyond monstrous’, warns UN
CARACAS - Conditions in Venezuela’s prisons are “beyond monstrous”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said yesterday, before calling for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of a leading More...
Minister of Foreign Affairs signs agreement with Venezuelan Minister suspected of torture
THE HAGUE - Minister Stef Blok (Foreign Affairs) has concluded an agreement on the abolition of a border blockade with the former Venezuelan vice president Tareck El Aissami. Blok knew that the EU would impose sanctions More...
Venezuela says Colombia’s president shielding Maduro’s attackers
CARACAS - Venezuela kept up its war of words on neighbor Colombia on Sunday, saying its president Ivan Duque was shielding the authors of an alleged attempt to assassinate its president Nicolas Maduro. Caracas More...
Blok is going to demand attention for Venezuela in Europe
WILLEMSTAD - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dutch Kingdom Stef Blok is going to draw attention to the influx of Venezuelan refugees to Curaçao and Aruba. He will do this at the meeting of all Ministers More...
Senior US lawmaker on foreign relations to visit Venezuela
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will travel to Venezuela “to assess the current situation,” a spokeswoman said, amid tensions between Caracas and Washington. The spokeswoman More...
