- Nicolás Maduro announced changes in his ministerial cabinet. María Corina Machado was nominated for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. Oasis announced their return to the stage with a tour in 2025 | Main photo: courtesy
On Tuesday, August 27, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was nominated for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. In addition, the opposition announced the gathering points in Venezuela for August 28.
For his part, Nicolás Maduro announced changes in his ministerial cabinet. And the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) denounced judicial harassment against Edmundo González.
On the international stage, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization described the repetition of presidential elections in Venezuela as a “mockery.” In addition, the Popular Party (PP) of Spain asked Pedro Sánchez to recognize the victory of Edmundo González in Venezuela.
In culture, the band Oasis announced their return to the stage with a tour in 2025.
Below are the most relevant news from Tuesday, August 27:
Opposition leader María Corina Machado is one of three finalists for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the organisation announced in a statement on Tuesday, 27 August.
The award, which will be presented on September 30, 2024, recognizes the work of organizations and individuals in defense of human rights.
Alongside Machado, the finalists are Akif Gurbanov, an Azerbaijani activist and co-founder of the Institute for Democratic Initiative (IDI), who was arrested in March for government repression of journalists and activists; and Babutsa Pataraia, a Georgian feminist and director of the Sapari organisation, which defends women’s rights.
“The jury for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which rewards outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights in Europe and beyond, announced today in Prague the shortlist for the 2024 Prize,” the organisation said on its Twitter account.
The Command with Venezuela announced on Tuesday, August 27, the concentration points in Venezuela for the summons of María Corina Machado for August 28, 2024.
The opposition leader called for a demonstration in support of Edmundo González, after the Attorney General’s Office summoned him to testify in an investigation for alleged “usurpation of functions” and “conspiracy.”
In Caracas, the meeting place is on Francisco de Miranda Avenue, near the Lido shopping center located in the Chacao municipality.
On Tuesday, October 27, Nicolás Maduro announced changes to the ministerial cabinet, one of which was to appoint the Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, as Minister of Petroleum.
For their part, the governors of Apure and Miranda, Eduardo Piñate and Héctor Rodríguez, assumed the positions of Ministries of Labor and Education, respectively. The ministers who remain in office so far are Foreign Minister Yván Gil and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López.
Below is the complete list of the new ministers:
-Petroleum Minister: Delcy Rodríguez
-Minister of Interior and Justice: Diosdado Cabello
-Minister of Industries and National Production: Pedro Tellechea
– Minister of Finance: Anabel Pereira Fernández
-Minister of Agriculture: Menric Fernández
-Minister of Labor: Eduardo Piñate
-Minister of Housing: Raúl Paredes
-Ministry of Public Works: Juan José Ramírez
– Minister of Sports: Arnaldo Sánchez
-Minister of Education: Hector Rodriguez
-Minister of Higher Education: Ricardo Sánchez
-Minister of Tourism: Leticia Gómez
-Youth Minister: Grecia Colmenares
-Minister of Communes: Ángel Prado
-Minister of Indigenous Peoples: Clara Vidal
-Minister of Grandmothers and Grandfathers: Magaly Viña
On Tuesday, August 27, the PUD reported judicial harassment against Edmundo González by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, due to repeated summons in the context of various investigations against him.
“The repeated summons from the Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks to justify an execution order against our winning candidate, to accentuate his persecution,” the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) stated on its X account.
In this regard, the opposition coalition expressed its support for González and confirmed that “he overwhelmingly won the last presidential election on July 28.”
“(Edmundo) is being persecuted because the government considers it a crime that he obtained no less than eight million votes by the will of the Venezuelan people,” added the MUD.
On Tuesday, August 27, HRW described the proposal to repeat the presidential elections in Venezuela as a “mockery.”
Juanita Goebertus Estrada, director of HRW’s Americas Division, said in a letter to Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico) that the human rights organization is concerned about three specific proposals they have made to resolve the Venezuelan crisis.
Goebertus added that a “credible” negotiation between all parties involved is the best way to protect human rights in Venezuela, which is why the organization disagrees with the proposals of Lula, Petro and López Obrador to repeat the elections, trust the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) and grant a general amnesty.
6. Popular Party of Spain asked Pedro Sánchez to recognize Edmundo González’s victory in Venezuela
The spokesman for the PP, the main opposition party in Spain, in the Spanish Congress, Miguel Tellado, demanded on Tuesday, August 27, that the Spanish government recognize opposition leader Edmundo González as the winner of the elections in Venezuela, and denounced that “it seems” that the president of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, “prefers left-wing dictatorships rather than right-wing democratic governments.”
The PP spokesman defended the requests of his parliamentary group for the president of the government and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, to appear before the chamber and explain Spain’s position, which has not recognised the victory claimed by Nicolás Maduro and has demanded the publication of the electoral records.
Albares confirmed on August 26 that Spain will not recognize Nicolás Maduro’s electoral victory in Venezuela until the minutes of the elections are verified, but it does not plan to admit an opposition victory until then.
British band Oasis announced on their website on Tuesday, August 27 that they would be returning to the stage with their tour in 2025, after a 15-year wait.
British brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, founders of the pop group Oasis, reported that the tour Live 25 will begin in July 2025 in the UK and Ireland.
Oasis is considered one of the iconic rock bands of the 1990s and later decades.
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2024-08-28 08:20:04
