Detained Sidor workers will be presented before a terrorism court in Caracas

Daniel Romero and Leandro Azócar, Sidor workers and union leaders arrested last Sunday June 11 by officials of the Military Counterintelligence Directorate (Dgcim) after several days of labor protests, will be presented before a "terrorism" court.

So far the charges are unknown.

Provea said that "the union is on strike at the Pellas Plant to demand better wages and restitution of benefits." He also assured that "the workers denounced that the state company cut their electricity and suspended water, food and transportation services after their demands."

🌎🚩 — NARCO STATE: How drug trafficking and politics form the basis of the Bolivarian revolution

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Iran's first lady arriving in Venezuela.

Yukpas withdraw from the Maracaibo's Bridge:

After the conversations of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, as well as the actions of the PNB and GNB, the last Yukpa group that had blocked the Bridge over Lake Maracaibo for more than 7 hours on Tuesday withdrew from the place.

🇻🇪⛽🍌 A banana producer throws away his harvest because he has no fuel to sell it.

. National Assembly announces that it will designate a new CNE, despite the fact that the opposition rectors have not resigned from their posts:

HRW alerted that Maduro seeks to co-opt the CNE and affect the primary with the resignation of rectors

The director for the Americas of the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch, Juanita Goebertus, warned this Thursday that the decision to modify the composition of the electoral body could affect the opposition primaries scheduled for the month of October, as well as the fundamental reforms for guarantee the right to vote and citizen and political participation.

In a message posted on his Twitter account, Gouebertus described it as a "very dangerous move by the government to control the National Electoral Council." For this reason, he asked the presidents of Colombia and Brazil, Gustavo Petro and Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva, respectively, to use his closeness to Nicolás Maduro to stop the maneuver he is attempting.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 United States assures that more than 32,000 Venezuelans have benefited from the "humanitarian parole"

https://elpublicotv.com/estados-unidos-32-mil-venezolanos-parole-humanitario/

Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, will be part of the commission that will elect the members of the new CNE

Uruguayan ambassador in Venezuela, Eber da Rosa, delivered to the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, his credentials, which designate him as the new representative of that nation.

Da Rosa, who is a lawyer and politician, was received by the Head of State at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas.

Fifty unions and organizations demanded the release of two Sidor [Venezuelan steel factories] workers

https://elpublicotv.com/cincuenta-sindicatos-y-organizaciones-exigieron-la-liberacion-sidor/

🇵🇪🇻🇪 Peruvian National Police rescued 10 Venezuelans who were sexually exploited.

Foreign victims of human trafficking increased by 500% in the last 8 years, mainly of Venezuelan and Colombian origin, according to figures from the NGO CHS Alternativo

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Bloomberg: Venezuela seeks an opportunity for its economy in crisis in its gas reserves

https://bit.ly/3NB70CF

🗳️Recent poll for primary elections in the opposition by Cyber Data:

-Maria Corina Machado (Vente Venezuela | Liberal Right)

-Henrique Capriles (Primero Justicia | Populist Center-Left)

-Manuel Rosales (Un Nuevo Tiempo | Social democrat)

-Cesar Pérez Vivas (Independent | Liberal Right)

-Freddy Superlano (Voluntad Popular | Liberal Left)

-Benjamin Rausseo (Independent | not clear at all but let's say he's capitalist)

-Carlos Próspero (Acción Democrática | social democrat)

-Delsa Solorzano (Encuentro Ciudadano | Liberal Center-Right)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-16/venezuela-opposition-shuns-electoral-authority-for-its-primaries

"Venezuela’s main opposition groups said they will organize their own presidential primaries independently of the electoral authority when they select a candidate to try to defeat President Nicolás Maduro next year.

The decision to sideline the electoral body means the opposition will have to fund the process itself, and secure access to hundreds of polling centers across the country by October".

The reason why this happens is because former authorities of National Electoral Council (CNE) were removed by the pro-regime parliament.

This is important, as the current week had a rude debate about having primary elections with the support of CNE supported by candidates like Manuel Rosales, or the opposite idea defended by María Corina Machado, arguing that venezuelan regime could affect the results.