🇳🇮🇵🇦 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.

Colombia announces another peace negotiation with the Segunda Marquetalia dissidents

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Venezuela, Colombia and Peru account for almost 79% of asylum seekers in Spain https://buff.ly/3Uzf3n7

Venezuela closes another January without vehicle production, according to the automotive chamber

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Chavismo proposes convening religious organizations to oversee presidential elections

The deputy of the Chavista National Assembly (AN) of 2020 Nicolás Maduro Guerra offered an assessment of the Parliament meeting with representatives of the country's religious sectors. He indicated that at the meeting a proposal arose to call international organizations from different currents to be part of the international observation of the presidential elections.