Venezuela news summary for Monday, October 14

• The Forum 2000 in Prague awarded an award to the Venezuelan lawyer Rocío San Miguel; Spain will transfer to the EU the situation of its citizens detained in Venezuela; Edmundo González asked for support to achieve a peaceful transition in the country | Photo: EFE

This Monday, October 14, the Forum 2000 awarded its Award for Courage and Responsibility to the Venezuelan lawyer Rocío San Miguel, who is currently in prison.

At the World in Progress international forum, Edmundo González asked for the support of democracies to achieve a peaceful transition in Venezuela.

In international news, José Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, will address with his European Union counterparts the “unacceptable” situation of the two Spanish citizens imprisoned in Venezuela.

Below are the most notable news from Monday, October 14:

The Forum 2000, created in 1997 by the former Czechoslovak president, playwright and dissident Václav Havel, awarded its Award for Courage and Responsibility to the Venezuelan lawyer Rocío San Miguel, who is currently in prison. This was reported by the organization this Monday, October 14.

“Rocío San Miguel Sosa is one of the most experienced military and security experts in Venezuela. He did extremely important work with his NGO (non-governmental organization) and also actively participated in international organizations that draw attention to the current situation in Venezuela. For this reason, the repressive regime of Nicolás Maduro imprisoned her and is trying to silence her,” declared the director of the forum, Jakub Klepal.

The human rights activist, who chairs Citizen Control, is detained in El Helicoide since February 2024.

Photo: @ReporteYa Twitter

2. Spain will transfer to the EU the situation of its citizens detained in Venezuela

The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, will address with his European Union counterparts the “unacceptable” situation of the two Spanish citizens imprisoned in Venezuela accused of being part of an alleged terrorist operation against the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Albares will raise this matter during a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg in which they will address the crisis in Venezuela and reaffirm their position that they do not recognize Maduro as the democratically elected president since they have not had access to the minutes. of the July 28 elections, the EFE news agency reported on Monday, October 14.

“We are going to see how we can advance the democratic will of the Venezuelans who freely expressed it on July 28, always being a solution that has to be Venezuelan (…) it cannot be imposed from outside and of course it has to be peaceful,” the minister said in statements to the press upon his arrival at the meeting.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares. Photo: courtesy El Mundo

3. Edmundo González asked for support to achieve a peaceful transition in the country

Edmundo González asked on Monday, October 14, for the support of the world’s democracies for a peaceful transition in Venezuela. He also insisted that “a democratic Venezuela is in the interest of the entire world.”

González spoke at the World In Progress international forum, organized by the Prisa Group in the Spanish city of Barcelona, ​​the EFE news agency reported.

Exiled in Spain since September 8, the Venezuelan opponent defended in his speech that the strength of a region, in reference to Latin America, is measured by the democratic quality of each of its countries.

EFE/Quique García

4. The CAF warned that 30 million young Latin Americans are targets of criminal networks

CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean warned that almost 30 million young Latin Americans who do not study or work are targets of criminal networks in the region.

Although there are no war conflicts, “more than 10 criminal markets converge today, such as arms trafficking, human trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal mining and extortion,” said its president, Sergio Díaz-Granados. at the World in Progress forum in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Monday, October 14.

Díaz-Granados indicated that insecurity is “one of the worst bills that Latin America and the Caribbean is receiving against development.”

In addition, he pointed out the erosion of democratic institutions. The Latinobarómetro, which has been systematically evaluating citizen satisfaction with democracy for 30 years, showed “the lowest level” of satisfaction in 2023, 27%.

Photo: CAF

5. Former Spanish ambassador to Venezuela accepted 10 months in prison for hiding PDVSA profits

The former ambassador of Spain in Venezuela Raúl Morodo accepted on Monday, October 14, a sentence of 10 months in prison for a crime against the Public Treasury. The former diplomat hid profits of almost 4.5 million euros that his son Alejo obtained in business with the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) between 2013 and 2014.

At the hearing, Alejo Morodo accepted, for his part, a sentence of two years in prison for two tax crimes, the same as his father, under an agreement in accordance with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office and the accusation brought against him. by the Manos Liminas collective, reported the EFE news agency

The Prosecutor’s Office requested three and a half years in prison for Raúl Morodo and eight and a half years for his son, but finally reduced their request by virtue of said agreement, by applying the mitigating circumstances of confession of the facts and reparation for the damage, having entered both a total of 1,410,000 euros of debt contracted with the Spanish Treasury.

EFE/ Javier Lizón / POOL

The Americans Daron Acemoglu, of Turkish origin, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, both of British origin, received on Monday, October 14, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their studies on how institutions are formed and how they affect prosperity , announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

“Reducing the enormous income differences between countries is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The winners have demonstrated the importance of social institutions to achieve this,” explained Jakob Svensson, president of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.

According to the committee, the three winners have demonstrated the importance of social institutions for the prosperity of nations and that societies with a fragile rule of law and institutions that tend to exploit the population do not generate growth or changes that lead to to an improvement.

EFE/EPA/Christine Olsson/TT SWEDEN OUT

Clipper, NASA’s largest spacecraft for a planetary mission, left this Monday, October 14, from Florida towards Europa, a moon of Jupiter covered in ice and hiding in its depths a huge ocean that can support life.

The spacecraft was launched by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida at 12:06 p.m.

The historic mission to decipher whether “we are alone” in the universe will carry out about fifty flybys along this mysterious icy moon, 25 kilometers high, to determine if Europa has favorable conditions for life.

EFE/EPA/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH

The European football leagues and the International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIFPro) denounced the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) to the European Commission on Monday, October 14, for abusing its dominant position in community football by establishing the calendars of the different competitions of this sport.

“The complaint explains how the imposition of decisions on the international calendar by FIFA is an abuse of a dominant position and infringes European Union law. “Recent jurisprudence (…) makes it clear that FIFA must exercise its regulatory functions in a transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate manner to neutralize its conflict of interest,” the plaintiffs said in a statement.

At a press conference in Brussels (Belgium) under the name “Protecting the health of footballers and safeguarding the sustainability of national leagues in Europe against abusive conduct by FIFA”, representatives of FIFPro Europe, the Spanish League and of the Premier League, among others, accused FIFA of not talking to the national leagues to organize the calendars of international competitions.

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