- The Fact Finding Mission renewed its mandate in Venezuela for two years. They counted at least 10 daily protests in Venezuela in September. Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo received the Nobel Peace Prize. And the LVBP season began with the match between Tiburones de La Guaira and Navegantes del Magallanes | Photo: EFE
This Friday, October 11, the UN Human Rights Council approved the renewal of the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission in Venezuela. While the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict (OVCS) counted 290 protests in September in the country.
On the other hand, it was confirmed that Edmundo González was received in Portugal by the prime minister and the chancellor of that country.
The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo received the Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to work on a world without nuclear weapons. And the passage of Hurricane Milton through Florida, United States, increased the number of deaths to 16.
In sports, the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP) began the 2024-2025 season.
Below are the most notable news of the day:
The members of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) approved this Friday, October 11, the renewal for two years of the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission in Venezuela.
The representatives of Chile and Argentina before the body presented the resolution to be voted on. In their speeches they broke down some complaints of possible human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Venezuela in recent years.
Additionally, delegates reviewed and voted to maintain support for the Office of the High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Council in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict (OVCS) counted 290 protests during the month of September. This figure is equivalent to an average of 10 demonstrations daily, according to a report from the organization published on Friday, October 11.
The total represented a 29.7% decrease compared to August, when 413 protests were reported. And a decrease of 46% compared to September 2024 (538 conflicts).
According to the OVCS, 131 of the demonstrations were held, for and against, the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the presidential elections of July 28.
Monagas was the entity where protests were reported the most in September (36), followed by Carabobo (29), Sucre (28), Anzoátegui (25) and Bolívar (23). While in the states where fewer demonstrations occurred are: Aragua (3), Guárico (3) and Amazonas (1).
3. Prime Minister and the Chancellor of Portugal received Edmundo González
The Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia was received on Thursday in Lisbon by the Prime Minister of Portugal, the conservative Luís Montenegro, and the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Paulo Rangel, a source from the Portuguese Foreign Ministry informed EFE this Friday, October 11.
The source specified that González Urrutia met with Rangel at the end of Thursday morning at the Palácio das Necessidades, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without giving more details about this meeting.
During his stay in the Portuguese capital, the Venezuelan opponent was also received by the head of the Portuguese government, as González Urrutia himself revealed on his social networks.
“I had a productive agenda in Portugal,” he wrote on his Instagram profile, where he assured that, in the “long conversations” he had in these two meetings, the Portuguese government reaffirmed “its commitment to plurality, human rights and respect to the will of the Venezuelan people.”
4. Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo received the Nobel Peace Prize
The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and demonstrate through witness testimony that these devices “should never be used again,” announced this Friday, October 11, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo.
In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to this organization, the committee wishes to honor all survivors of the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 – also known as hibakusha – who, “despite physical suffering and painful memories , have decided to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and commitment to peace.”
“They help us describe the indescribable, think the unthinkable, and somehow understand the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons,” the committee noted.
Likewise, the Norwegian Committee wishes to recognize “an encouraging fact” amid current geopolitical tensions, that no nuclear weapon has been used in a war in almost 80 years.
The number of deaths from the passage of Hurricane Milton in Florida (United States) increased to at least 16, several of them due to tornadoes that occurred before the arrival of the hurricane, which has already dissipated in the Atlantic.
The figure, according to the accounts kept by the news network CNNare added to at least a thousand rescues carried out by the relief forces until the night of October 10.
However, state Governor Ron DeSantis also said the death toll may rise as rescue operations continue.
According to St. Lucie Sheriff Keith Pearson, multiple tornadoes caused by the hurricane left several dead after hitting a manufactured home community.
6. The LVBP will begin with new rules and technological resources
The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), provided with new rules and technological resources, will begin the 2024-2025 season this Friday, October 11, with the game between the current champion Tiburones de la Guaira and Navegantes del Magallanes.
The president of the LVBP, Giuseppe Palmisano, told reporters that the regular round, of 224 games, will extend until December 21, after which the matches will be played that will define the fifth place, the last to join the round robinwhich will begin on the 26th.
This year, after some adjustments to the schedule, the seven-game final series will begin on January 19 and, if extended to the limit, will end on the 27th.
In The Diary We present you a summary with the most important information of the day, which you should know at the national and international level.
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