17 Venezuelan parties announce parliamentarian participation
Seventeen Venezuelan political parties ratified their participation in the next parliamentary elections to be held on December 6th, called by the National Electoral Council stating that “we are defenders of voting rights as the only weapon to settle our differences.”
Likewise, they joined the more than 25 national and 40 regional political organizations that will participate in the elections to elect the new National Assembly, to which they assert that “as democrats and guarantors of peace, we want to ratify our adherence to the participatory way”. “Undoubtedly, the elections of December 6th are an opportunity to rectify and elect a plural National Assembly, which is dedicated to drafting laws in favor of our people,” cites the document.
Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela appoints new Rector of the National Electoral Council
The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela appointed Leonardo Morales Poleo, Political Scientist and Professor at the Central University of Venezuela, as Vice President of the National Electoral Council of the country on Friday, August 7th, 2020.
Morales is a member of the center-left Avanzada Progresista (AP) party, one of the participating organizations in the dialogue table with government authorities. This swearing-in was carried out after the resignation of Rafael Simón Jiménez from the position, who announced that he would take on a political struggle from the streets.
Venezuela sentences US mercenaries to 20 years in prison.
Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab reported that former US military personnel Luke Denmnan and Airan Berry were sentenced to 20 years in prison for their participation in Operation Gideon against the Government of Nicolás Maduro.
“They admitted to have committed crimes of conspiracy, association, illicit trafficking in weapons of war and terrorism, typified in the Penal Code, for which they were sentenced to a prison for 20 years,” Saab wrote on his Twitter account.
Drug shipments seized in Venezuelan border state
The Bolivarian National Police seized more than 249 kilograms of drugs in two operations in the border state of Táchira reported the head of the National Anti-Drug Office; Alberto Matheus.
The official revealed that during investigative work in the El Diamante sector, Cárdenas municipality, a man was arrested who was trying to move eight bags of marijuana. Upon inspection, 110 kg of the plant were found.
President Nicolás Maduro creates the National Registry of Missionaries
President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, approved the creation of Missions, Great Missions and Micro-missions systems in the 1,141 parishes and 3,230 communes of the country, to “go deeper into the catacombs of the people” and relaunch each of the missions through the Homeland System.
Likewise, he communicated that in the next 30 days, the national registry of missionaries and great missionaries of the country must be carried out, prepared and built, “all of the Missions, one by one, which will add volunteers, militants, activists and people who want to work for their Missions, for the Great Missions”.
Venezuela rejects US sanctions against Zimbabwe amid COVID-19 pandemic
Following the interventionist and unilateralist announcement made by Washington, in which it imposes unilateral coercive measures on Zimbabwe, the Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, expressed his solidarity with the people and African government, while rejecting the actions calling them “illegal, arbitrary and inhumane.”
“From Venezuela we reject, as illegal, arbitrary and inhumane, the Unilateral Coercive Measures that Washington imposes on the people of Zimbabwe in the midst of a pandemic. We express our solidarity to its people and government, confident that their dignity will not be bowed down,” the Foreign Minister wrote on his Twitter account @jaarreaza.
