- The Carter Center presented the minutes of July 28 to the OAS Permanent Council. The BCV reported that inflation in September decreased by 0.8%. And María Corina Machado received the Václav Havel Human Rights Award from the Council of Europe | EFE/ Lenin Nolly
This week, the Carter Center presented the minutes of the July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. This is a recognition granted each year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
In the economy, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported that inflation fell 0.8% in September compared to the previous month.
Likewise, they issued deprivation of liberty for the mayor of Maracaibo, Rafael Ramírez, and other detainees from the city hall.
Internationally, the Bolivian authorities confirmed an investigation against the former president of Evo Morales for the alleged crime of sexual abuse against a minor. While in sports, Pamela Conti was dismissed as coach of the women’s Vinotinto.
Below are the highlights of the week:
The member countries of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) discussed on October 2 the political situation in Venezuela after the presidential elections on July 28.
During the session, Jennie Lincoln, senior advisor of the Carter Center, presented the minutes of the elections that show the opponent Edmundo González as the winner.
It was sent to me by international mail, I am going to show it to you after this session so that you can see it. These are original minutes from Venezuela that have a QR code that is significant and that allows witnesses from thousands and thousands of tables to systematically collect information,” he said at a press conference.
He stressed that the original documents were collected and analyzed by both independent observers and the Venezuelan opposition. However, the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the elections.
The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported that inflation fell 0.8% in September compared to the previous month. Likewise, he detailed that the accumulated variation since January reached 12.1%.
In addition, the accumulated inflation in the third quarter of the year was 3%, which demonstrates, according to the organization, that “price stabilization continues to advance” in the country, which experienced a hyperinflationary crisis between 2017 and 2021.
The BCV assured that these data indicate that September reported the lowest inflation since the preparation of the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) began throughout the national territory, in 2008.
On Monday, September 30, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
His daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, received the award on behalf of Machado, who is the first Latin American figure to obtain the distinction.
“I deeply regret that I cannot travel,” said the president of the Assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, to the opposition leader, who connected to the event by videoconference.
The mayor of the Maracaibo municipality (Zulia), the opponent Rafael Ramírez Colina, was deprived of liberty as reported on Saturday, October 5, by his wife Vanessa Linares de Ramírez.
“(…) Rafael was deprived of his defenders, which is contrary to due process and the legitimate right to defense established in our Constitution and laws and that he deserves as a human being, demonstrating once again that it is an act of political persecution” , he wrote on his X account.
According to sources from the mayor’s office, the general director of citizen security of Maracaibo, David Barroso, and two members of Ramírez Colina’s security team were also arrested.
The United States government decided on Friday, October 4, that it will not extend the period of stay of migrants who entered the country under the humanitarian parole program. This means that before its two-year validity expires, the beneficiaries must change their immigration status, or else they will be considered illegal by the authorities.
This will mainly affect Venezuelan migrants, who began receiving this benefit in 2022, so starting in October their first applicants will be left unprotected by the law. Eventually, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti will also be included, whose migrants entered the program in 2023. Although this was already established in its regulations, its defenders expected that the Joe Biden Administration would issue an extension given the complex political and humanitarian situation of these countries.
However, White House officials confirmed to EFE and the network CBS that there will be no renewals. Previously, a spokesperson for the United States Department of Homeland Security had also made the same warning in an interview with the Spanish-American channel Univision.
The Bolivian authorities confirmed on Friday, October 4, an ongoing investigation against the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales for the crime of sexual abuse against a minor, in addition to a case of human trafficking that would have occurred eight years ago, when he was still He was the president of that nation.
According to the Bolivian Minister of Justice, César Siles, the victim of sexual abuse would have had a daughter with Morales, as confirmed by a birth certificate of the minor.
“As a result of that rape, the mother gave birth to another girl and the father recognized on a birth certificate is Mr. Evo Morales Ayma,” said Siles during a press conference in La Paz on October 3.
The Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) announced on October 2 the dismissal of Pamela Conti, coach of the Vinotinto senior women’s team and the under-20 team, as well as that of her brother, Vicenzo Conti, who was her assistant on the senior team. and coach of the women’s under-17 category.
Through its social networks, the federation thanked both for their time in the different women’s categories.
We would like to thank Pamela Conti, technical director of the senior and under-20 team, as well as Vincenzo Conti, technical assistant of the senior team and technical director of the under-17 category, for all these years alongside our women’s teams in their different categories, working for women’s football in our country,” the FVF reported in a publication on its social networks.
Longshoremen on the east coast of the United States and the Gulf of Mexico, represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), reached a preliminary agreement on October 3 with the USMX shipping union, ending their strike.
The ILA reported in a statement that they have reached “a tentative agreement on salaries and have agreed to extend the Master Contract until January 15, 2025.”
“Effective immediately, all current labor actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume,” the union added.
The National Association of Film Authors (ANAC) reported on Thursday, October 3, that the Venezuelan film Come back to life will represent Venezuela in the race for nominations for the 2025 Oscars.
The selection was made by a committee made up of representatives of various film guilds, filmmakers of works selected in previous editions and prominent figures in Venezuelan cinematography.
“A work nourished by the personal experiences of its authors. A story in which life struggles to overcome adversity, and in which fictional recreation and documentary recording intersect,” ANAC said about the film on its Instagram account.
In The Diary We present you a summary with the most notable information of the week, which you should know at the national and international level.
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2024-10-07 08:14:14
