María Corina Machado will present a plan to pay off Venezuela's debt:

https://alertas24.com/politica/maria-corina-machado-presentara-plan-a-tenedores-de-bonos-para-pagar-la-deuda-de-venezuela/

🇻🇪🇧🇷 Lula once again defended Maduro and criticized the "foreign interference" in Venezuela: "He was elected by the Venezuelans"

https://alertas24.com/internacionales/lula-volvio-a-defender-a-maduro-y-critico-la-interferencia-extranjera-en-venezuela-fue-elegido-por-los-venezolanos/

Sebin arrested five people in Barinas who helped in the logistics of María Corina Machado

TalCual journalist Víctor Amaya, who is covering Machado's tour, reported that the owner of the sound truck used for the rally is in custody, in addition to four other people who contributed to the logistics. The victims of this political persecution were transferred to the Sebin headquarters in the capital of Barinas.

✳️ On Wednesday afternoon, the liberal leader led massive rallies in the towns of Libertad and Sabaneta, the cradle of Chavismo.

🇦🇷Argentine Government confirmed this Thursday 06.29.2023 that it will make the payment of the 2,700 million dollars that expire on Friday to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) , set in the last renegotiation of the debt of 44 billion dollars taken by the government of Mauricio Macri in 2018.

According to sources from the Ministry of Economy, the Treasury's Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and yuan will be used instead of using dollars from the Central Bank's reserves.

The participation of both the IMF and the People's Bank of China in this operation is expected, which will allow the country to fulfill its commitments with the multilateral organization.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 US Treasury Department removed from its list of sanctions the oil broker identified as Philipp Paul Vartan Apikian, linked to transactions with Venezuela.

Vartan Apikian had been one of the last to be sanctioned under the Trump administration, in 2021, for his "ties to a network that is trying to evade United States sanctions against the Venezuelan oil sector."

Today's measure (06.29.2023) also benefits the company SWISSOIL TRADING SA, owned by Vartan Apikian.

Swissoil Trading SA is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and assisted in the sale and shipment of Venezuelan-origin crude oil to buyers in Asia.

Swissoil also received at least one shipment of Venezuelan oil in Asia, according to the OFAC statement in 2021.

🇨🇴 Survey reveals that support for Gustavo Petro is in a tailspin: 61% of Colombians disapprove of his management

61% of those surveyed disapproved of the president's management, who faces great difficulties in getting Congress to approve his proposed legal reforms, according to the firm Invamer.

In April, disapproval was 57% and in February it was 51%, according to Invamer. When the government was installed it was 20%.

Maduro regime disables María Corina Machado for 15 years

The deputy of the Chavista National Assembly, José Brito, reported this Friday that the Nicolás Maduro regime has disqualified candidate María Corina Machado for 15 years.

Brito publicly read a communication received by the Comptroller General of the Republic announcing that Machado was "disqualified from holding any public office for a period of 15 years."

🇻🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿London rejects an appeal by Maduro for control of Venezuelan gold

The London Court of Appeal rejected this Friday, June 30, an appeal by the board of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), appointed by Nicolás Maduro, against a ruling of July 29, 2022 that granted the other board appointed by opposition authority over gold deposited in the Bank of England.

The three judges have dismissed the arguments presented in hearings, on May 23 and 24, by the board of Maduro's BCV, which questioned the decision of Judge Sara Cockerill not to accept as valid some sentences of the Supreme Court of Justice that declared The appointments to institutions made by the then opposition leader Juan Guaidó are void.

🇨🇴 Petro does not support Maduro and rejects the disqualification of María Corina Machado

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, showed through social networks his disagreement with the decision taken by the Comptroller General of the Republic to ratify the political disqualification of the candidate for the opposition primaries, María Corina Machado.

In a response to a question made by the journalist Sebastián Nohra, the Colombian president expressed that the administrative authorities should not take away the political rights of citizens.

"It is clear that no administrative authority should take away political rights from any citizen," he replied, referring to the action taken against Machado

OAS describes the disqualification of María Corina Machado as arbitrary

“This decision is arbitrary and contrary to the rule of law. It violates elementary political and civil rights, including those stipulated in Article 23 of the American Convention on Human Rights regarding the right to elect and be elected," the organization's General Secretariat said in a statement.

🇺🇸🇵🇪 Biden praises the Boluarte government after Peru's controversial approval of US troops

US President Joe Biden praised "the democratic transfer of power" in Peru that occurred last December, when President Dina Boluarte took office after the removal of Pedro Castillo.

Biden's comments came during a ceremony held at the White House, in which the Peruvian ambassador in Washington, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, presented his credentials to the US president.

At the event, Biden delivered a formal communication to the Latin American diplomat through which he acknowledges that "Peru presents itself as a force for economic prosperity and leadership in the Andes."

Likewise, according to Lima, the US president expressed his desire to work with the authorities of the Spanish-speaking country to strengthen the democratic quality of Peru.

🇨🇴Two Super Tucano aircraft of the Colombian Air Force collided with each other during training this Saturday at the Apiay military base, in the city of Villavicencio.

According to the first reports, an officer who was on one of the planes died after the collision, while another was injured and is being treated at a hospital.

Members of the Faggot community march in Caracas to demand not to be discriminated against:

https://alertas24.com/nacionales/comunidad-lgtb-marcha-en-caracas-para-exigir-no-ser-discriminados/

🇻🇪🇨🇺In the morning hours of this Friday 30th, the citizen Gabriela Nava commented to Notitarde that her relative named Bertha de Pocaterra, 73 years old, who bought a house with her late husband for more than five years in sector 2 of Isabelica, and since it was acquired it has been occupied by a woman of Cuban nationality who alleges that she is not going to vacate the property.

European “conservatives" propose that Maduro cannot attend the EU-Celac summit

🇻🇪🇧🇷Brazilian opposition insists that Congress call a hearing with María Corina Machado

The request was reiterated by Senator Sergio Moro, a member of the centrist Union Brazil party and who was the judge who sent the current president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to prison for corruption.

"Lula's government is acting to prevent the hearing, but we will insist," said the senator.

María Corina Machado could travel to the US on 18J to present her economic plan to bondholders

María Corina Machado talks about the possibility of her being arrested after the accusations of the Comptroller General of the Republic:

"Everyone in Venezuela is exposed to these risks, but an enormous force has been awakened."

"We have grown and we have learned a lot. (...) The primary is going to be an opportunity to build civic strength."