former president of Colombia, Iván Duque, regretted the death of former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera on his social networks. There is still no official confirmation of the death.

🇻🇪🇨🇱Plataforma Unitaria regrets the death of Sebastián Piñera: "He was a great ally of Venezuelans who want freedom"

https://alertas24.com/nacionales/plataforma-unitaria-lamenta-la-muerte-de-sebastian-pinera-fue-un-gran-aliado-de-los-venezolanos-que-queremos-libertad/

A video shows the last minutes of the helicopter where Sebastián Piñera was traveling along with 3 other people, shortly after the helicopter fell into Lake Ranco where the death of the former President of Chile was confirmed 🇨🇱 The government has just confirmed it

European Union warns Maduro that "he cannot choose his opponents"

The European Commission (EC) said this Tuesday that the first step that Venezuela must take towards democracy must be the holding of "free, transparent and fair" presidential elections in 2024, and warned Nicolás Maduro that "he cannot elect his opponents.

In a debate in the plenary session of the European Parliament to talk about the latest acts of repression in that country, the European Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johansson, stressed that this is a "decisive" year for Venezuela and assured that the EU is willing to help the country to move towards democracy.

🇻🇪🇪🇸Spanish MEP Hermann Tertsch recalled why dictators do not go out through democratic means and announced the document signed by more than 200 parliamentarians from Europe and America to ask the ICC Prosecutor to accelerate the case against Nicolás Maduro

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🇳🇮🇵🇦 Nicaragua grants asylum to former Panama President Ricardo Martinelli.

🇪🇺🇻🇪 With 446 votes in favor, the European Parliament defends María Corina Machado as a presidential candidate: They will not know elections if she does not participate

https://alertas24.com/internacionales/con-446-votos-a-favor-el-parlamento-europeo-defiende-que-maria-corina-machado-sea-candidata-a-las-presidenciales/

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🇺🇾🇻🇪Uruguay calls its ambassador in Venezuela for consultations in the face of “unviable” elections

The Foreign Minister of Uruguay, Omar Paganini, stated this Thursday that he decided to call the Uruguayan ambassador in Venezuela, Eber da Rosa, for consultations to report on “worrying events” that would make the holding of free elections in that country “unfeasible.”

This was announced by Paganini through a publication on his X account (formerly Twitter) in which he also tagged the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou.

The call for consultations to an ambassador consists of an order that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends to him to urgently travel to the country in order to report on a certain matter and receive particular instructions.

Last Thursday, President Lacalle Pou assured the press that the elections that Venezuela will hold in the second half of this year will not be free and democratic after the disqualification of opposition leader María Corina Machado.

. A few hours ago they tried to evacuate judges from the Supreme Court of Colombia by helicopter. The protesters sent by Petro want to take over the Palace of Justice

Guyana plans to restructure its Defense Force while dispute with Venezuela continues https://bit.ly/3OBGBEE

🇻🇪🇬🇾⛴ Venezuelan Defense Minister affirms that he will give a "strong response" if Exxon Mobil explores the Essequibo

https://alertas24.com/nacionales/ministro-de-defensa-afirma-que-dara-respuesta-contundente-si-exxon-mobil-explora-el-esequibo/

10% of students in the private sector have left Venezuela

The vice president of the National Association of Private Educational Institutions (Andiep), Fausto Romeo, assured that 10% of the students enrolled in private schools have migrated from Venezuela.

Romeo expressed that this is a significant blow to the country's educational system, which has had problems since 2016, subsequently aggravated by the pandemic and its implications.

30 of the main rivers in southern Venezuela are affected by mining

Alejandro Álvarez Iragorri, biologist, environmentalist and coordinator of Climate 21, said: “Thirty of the main rivers in southern Venezuela are affected. We must remember that more than 80% of Venezuela's fresh water is from the Orinoco downwards, so we are losing an enormous capacity and potential that the country has."

"We are very concerned because such important rivers as the Caroní, the Caura, the Ventuari, already have strong signs of environmental damage in them," he said.

Likewise, he said that part of this environmental damage has to do with the deforestation process that is generating an increase in the amount of sediment carried by those rivers due to mercury contamination.

“Part of that sedimentation ends up in the Guri reservoir,” he indicated.