Venezuela confirms 3 new cases of Covid-19 for a total of 288 infections
As part of the end of the academic year, President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, offered a summary of the measures taken against Covid-19 by the South American country, confirming three new cases, which brings the total number of infections to 288.
“We have three new cases that now brings it to 288 cases in total, 42 percent of which have already recovered (122), 77 are in hospitals, 52 in Comprehensive Diagnostic Centers, 27 in private clinics and, sadly, 10 are deceased,” said the head of state.
Affected countries ask the UN for urgent action to eliminate US sanctions
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, announced on Tuesday, April 21st , that a group of ten countries, including that Caribbean nation, had sent a letter to the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations Organization (UN ), Michell Bachelet, for urgent action to be taken and illegal unilateral coercive sanctions be eliminated in order to advance in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
“The effects of unilateral coercive measures have been exacerbated even more recently, as the deadly Covid-19 outbreak is wreaking havoc around the world,” the text emphasized, it went on to further qualify these actions as “genocidal” and an excessive threat to global health, as they affect the cooperation between countries, “it is the only way to stop this epidemic and protect the population of the world,” the statement said.
Venezuela repatriates 52 compatriots stranded in Uruguay
A total of 52 Venezuelans who remained stranded in Uruguay in quarantine due to Covid-19 arrived on Monday, April 20th, in Venezuela, through a humanitarian flight coordinated by the Government of President Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuelan Deputy Minister for Latin America, Rander Peña, explained that repatriated citizens will comply with an isolation protocol for several days in recreational city of Los Caracas, located in theLa Guaira State, where they will be tested for Covid-19. The Venezuelan Government activated an airlift with Uruguay, which will also favor Uruguayans stranded in Venezuela, who will be able to return to their respective country.
Venezuela and Russia consolidate bilateral relations against Covid-19
Venezuela and Russia agreed on Monday, April 20th, to consolidate their bilateral relations at a strategic level in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro held a telephone conversation with his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putin.
Both leaders reiterated their condemnation of the imposition of coercive measures by the United States government against Venezuela. The dialogue addressed joint efforts to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as a shared analysis of the international situation and progress in cooperation projects between the two countries.
Putin guaranteed new shipments of health supplies and materials and expressed the need for greater coordination between the medical and scientific teams of both countries, through contacts and videoconferences to be held in the coming days.
Social and intellectual groups ask the US to lift blockade against Venezuela
Several voices joined the International Day of Solidarity with Venezuela, using virtual spaces where they called for the cessation of coercive measures imposed by the United States in order for the South American nation to be able to face the health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The World Peace Council (WPC) published a statement on Sunday, April 19th, in which it expressed that the Bolivarian Republic “is the victim of a brutal siege and criminal sanctions by the imperialist powers.”
Also on this international day of solidarity in favor of Venezuela there was a call for regional and world unity during the virtual conversation “Latin America as a zone of peace and in struggle for the integration of our peoples.”
Venezuela denounces new US interference
Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, denounced the new fallacies of the Trump administration in the United States which uses the media folded to its interests, to generate a crude media campaign in which the northern country requests the Caribbean nation to allow the entry of international aid.
“They live on lies,” said the Venezuelan diplomat in the publication released by Diario Las Américas, a well-known digital and printed newspaper at the service of the US Central Intelligence Agency. (CIA), which circulates among the most radical extreme right wing of of Miami, acquired in 2013 by Venezuelan, Nelson Mezerhane.
Venezuela denounces new dispossession of assets by the US
The Central Bank of Venezuela denounced that the US and a group of deputies opposed to the government of Nicolás Maduro confiscated an unspecified amount of money that was transferred to a Federal Reserve account.
Parliament, with an opposition majority, approved the transaction of these funds. The action, in the Bank’s opinion, is an “illegal order emanating from the US Treasury Secretariat.” The agency added that with it, a vulgar dispossession of financial resources belonging to the Venezuelan issuing entity is being consummated through the misappropriation of the heritage whose sole owner is the Venezuelan State. “
The Kueka stone returns to Venezuela after 22 years
The Kueka Stone, sacred to the Pemón people, is now back in Venezuela thanks to the efforts of the Venezuelan Government and the native peoples. It was Illegally removed from the country during the government of Rafael Caldera in 1998 and was exhibited in the Tiergarten Metropolitan Park in Berlin. After the steps taken by the national government since 2000, in January the removal process began in Germany, for the stone to be transferred its home in the Pemona community of Santa Cruz de Mapaurí.
Caricom calls for cessation of coercive measures to Cuba and Venezuela
Members of the Community of Caribbean States (Caricom) called for the lifting of sanctions by the United States against Cuba and Venezuela, in the context of the fight against Covid-19. In the meeting held via video conference, the common will to be part of the global effort to combat the pandemic was transcended. In addition, the health situation, food security and protection of the elderly from disease, as well as the reestablishment of activities after the epidemic, were addressed. The leaders considered various proposals for a common border policy and a public health policy to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.
Agreements between presidents of Venezuela and Iran are finalized through a virtual meeting on the attention of Covid-19
From the headquarters of the Ministry of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, representatives of the Bolivarian Government this Wednesday, April 22nd, held a work meeting via videoconference, on health matters with the government teams of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in compliance with the agreements established by Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Hasán Rouhaní in a telephone conversation held two days prior.
In the videoconference, the Deputy Minister of Integral Health, María Gabriela Miquilareno, together with the specialist team of the Ministry of the People’s Power for Health, exchanged experiences, clinical protocols and preventative measures of Covid-19 with the members of the Iranian multidisciplinary team, in the context of the recommendations of the World Health Organization and the unilateral coercive measures that weigh on both countries, illegally imposed by the United States government.
