International news in seven languages
Topic
According to a new charge before a federal court in Manhattan, Venezuelan deposed President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were charged with an additional charge of conspiracy to commit torture. The Office of the Prosecutor maintains that both used their position of power to prosecute opposition persons considered a threat to the Venezuelan Government.
The charge is added to the case for drug trafficking and other crimes that the couple faces in a federal court in New York
The new accusations relate to the alleged torture of US citizens held in Venezuela while Maduro was in power.
Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, face a new criminal charge in the United States for an alleged conspiracy to commit acts of torture against political opponents during the Venezuelan government. The indictment was incorporated on Thursday, 8 October, into the case that both already face in New York for drug-related crimes.
The new charges are expected to accuse Maduro and his wife of playing a role in the torture of Americans in Venezuelan prisons, US media reports.
Venezuela's president, Delcy Rodríguez, asked Parliament for a partial reform of the controversial Anti-Hate Act, adopted in 2017 during the government of Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, non-governmental organizations called for the law to be repealed in its entirety, as they agreed that it was an instrument for political persecution. From Caracas, our correspondent Daniella Zambrano tells us more.
The president-in-charge gave an 18-minute address to the UN General Assembly, in which she thanked the US President Donald Trump for "her willingness to take the path of diplomatic and cooperation relations," she did not mention her predecessors in the so-called Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, and promised elections, not without first recalling that "democracy is not measured by the existence of elections."
United Nations Venezuela's Acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, met with Donald Trump in New York, a few kilometres from the building in Brooklyn where Nicolás Maduro remains in detention.
The meeting that the US president. The U.S., Donald Trump, and Venezuela's president, Delcy Rodríguez, will continue on Tuesday, September 22, in New York, to condemn one of the most abrupt tours of US policy towards Caracas: only months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. military operation, Washington has moved from confrontation with the Latin American country to a cooperation relationship that has in oil one of its main axes, while the Rodríguez administration seeks international recognition.
Several news portals that had been blocked for years had been available again since September 17 in Venezuela, in a unilateral decision of the Government that was a change from one of the digital censorship practices reported during the time of Nicolás Maduro.
The Colombian businessman, whom Maduro became Minister of Industry, pleaded guilty before a federal court in Florida in a case involving millions of Venezuelan public funds.
Edgar José Marval was one of 10 Americans arrested in Venezuela who were released in exchange for the release of Alex Saab, the Colombian businessman allied with Nicolás Maduro.
