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How a Venezuelan man new to politics became an opposition leader who says it’s his turn to rule

CARACAS, Venezuela — Edmundo González has become a beacon of hope for millions of Venezuelans. A wanted poster of Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez covers a column at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print The coalition of main opposition …

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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Says 'Hooded Men' Kidnapped His Son-In-Law

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LOADING ERROR LOADING CARACAS, Venezuela — Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election, said his son-in-law was kidnapped Tuesday in Venezuela’s capital. Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who said his son-in-law was kidnapped Tuesday in Venezuela's capital. However, the opposition collected tally sheets from more than 80% …

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3 days, 19 hours ago

Venezuelan opposition leader says his son-in-law has been kidnapped in Caracas

Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela — Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election, said his son-in-law was kidnapped Tuesday in Venezuela’s capital. González, a retired diplomat, represented Venezuela’s Unitary Platform opposition coalition in the presidential election, which he and Maduro both claim to have won. However, the opposition collected tally sheets …

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Venezuelan opposition leader urges supporters to demonstrate to force Maduro to leave office

Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Sunday urged supporters to demonstrate across the country, saying in a video message that President Nicolás Maduro will not step down on his own and they “must make him leave.” Machado instructed supporters to demonstrate Thursday, the day before Venezuela’s next presidential term is set to begin. Opposition leader Maria …

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6 days, 20 hours ago

Venezuela opposition leader recognized by US as election victor embarks on international tour

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, …

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6 days, 22 hours ago

Venezuela opposition leader recognized by US as election victor embarks on international tour

Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who the United States recognized as the winner of last year’s presidential election, kicked off an international tour on Saturday that will take him to Washington just days before President Nicolás Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third term in defiance of international pressure. On Thursday, Maduro’s government …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Puerto Rico’s new governor sworn in days after a major blackout left much of the island in the dark

Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in Thursday as Puerto Rico’s new governor during a normally ebullient ceremony held amid widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territory days ago. Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon and her husband Jose Yovin Vargas wave with their children during Gonzalez’s swearing-in ceremony as governor outside the Capitol in San …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Puerto Rico swears in new governor days after blackout left much of the island in the dark

LA Times

Jenniffer Gonzalez and her husband, Jose Yovin Vargas, wave ahead of her swearing-in Thursday in San Juan. Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in Thursday as Puerto Rico’s new governor during a normally ebullient ceremony held amid widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territory days ago. Although González’s immediate challenge is Puerto Rico’s fragile power grid, she also …

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3 weeks ago

The global hunt for Putin’s ‘sleeper agents’

Live Mint

MI6 had a secret so sensitive that Slovenia’s spy chief needed to fly to London to hear it in person. Now, just weeks after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, he was being tasked with a mission that went far beyond Slovenia’s borders to the heart of a New Cold War: His small team of officers needed to capture two Russian …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Venezuela's opposition leader says Maduro is 'weaker than ever'

NPR

Venezuela's opposition leader says Maduro is 'weaker than ever' toggle caption Juan Barreto/AFP María Corina Machado leads the political opposition in Venezuela, and for months, she has done so while in hiding. Maduro's government also threatened Machado, but she says she is determined to stay in Venezuela. Sponsor Message Kelly: Let me turn you to a development this month: U.S. …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Puerto Rico angry after a U.S. comedian calls it ‘a floating island of garbage’ at a Trump rally

LA Times

Tony Hinchcliffe speaks before Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday in New York. A comic calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest humiliation for an island territory that has long suffered from mistreatment, residents said Monday in expressions of fury that could …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Spanish prime minister meets with exiled Venezuelan opposition leader González

Associated Press

MADRID — Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday, four days after fleeing to the European country in a negotiated deal with Nicolás Maduro’s government. On Wednesday, the Spanish Parliament approved a proposal from the conservative Popular Party urging Sánchez’s left-wing coalition government to recognize the opposition leader as the elected president …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

One-man rule: On Venezuela’s disputed presidential election

The Hindu

Venezuela’s disputed July 28 presidential election and the subsequent crackdown on the Opposition by the regime of President Nicolás Maduro have deepened the political divisions in the oil-rich country. According to the National Electoral Council, Mr. Maduro, President since 2013 upon the death of Hugo Chavez, won 51%, while his main opponent Edmundo González secured 43%. Mr. Maduro had already …

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4 months ago

Opposition leader Gonzalez left country for asylum in Spain, says Venezuelan official

The Hindu

“Former Venezuelan Opposition Presidential candidate Edmundo González has left the South American country after seeking asylum in Spain,” according to a senior Venezuelan official. Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said in a message posted on Instagram that Mr. González, who has not been seen since the election, had sought refuge in past days at Spain's embassy in Caracas. She said …

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4 months ago

Venezuelan opposition candidate González has left the country for asylum in Spain

NPR

Venezuelan opposition candidate González has left the country for asylum in Spain toggle caption Ariana Cubillos/AP CARACAS, Venezuela — Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart campaign to end two decades of single-party rule. The surprise departure …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Latin American effort to mediate Venezuela standoff loses steam as Maduro consolidates rule

Associated Press

MIAMI — It was a rare diplomatic gamble when the three leaders of Latin America’s largest democracies inserted themselves into the high-stakes standoff between Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and his opponents over who won the country’s presidential election. Dubbed the three amigos — all dyed-in-the-wool leftists who have been friendly with Maduro — the presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico broke …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Poland indicts man with spying for Russia after freeing him in swap and investigates coconspirators

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Polish prosecutors said Wednesday that …

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8 months ago

A Houston woman applied for a green card. She was banned from the U.S. for a decade.

Raw Story

This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. it's not something that anyone should go through if they want to get legal status in the U.S.,” said Naimeh Salem, an immigration attorney in Houston who recently took González’s case. Why can’t we make it possible for them to become permanent residents?” Guadalupe González, her 66-year-old mother, said it weighs on …

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9 months ago

Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives

The Independent

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1 year ago

Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

Associated Press

OCOSINGO, Mexico — Members and supporters of the Zapatista indigenous rebel movement celebrated the 30th anniversary of their brief armed uprising in southern Mexico on Monday even as their social base erodes and violence spurred by drug cartels encroaches on their territory. “We’re alone, like 30 years ago, because alone we have found the new path that we are going …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Daniel Noboa, heir to banana fortune, wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff election

Associated Press

QUITO, Ecuador — Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election Sunday held amid unprecedented violence that even claimed the life of a candidate. After results showed him victorious, Noboa thanked Ecuadorians for believing in “a new political project, a young political project, an improbable political project.” …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — “Hola, mamá.” What seems like an unremarkable greeting between mother and son was in this case anything but. Now 42, Thyden got to embrace his birth mother for the first time during a long-awaited family reunion in Valdivia, Chile in August 2023. He said his was a case of “counterfeit adoption.” In this image provided by Constanza Del …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Activists condemn violence against LGBTQ community in St. Vincent, where gay sex is illegal

Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Advocacy group Human Rights Watch released an in-depth report Thursday that details the abuse and discrimination the LGBTQ community says it faces in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where gay sex is still criminalized. “These laws still have an impact,” said Jeshua Bardoo, an international human rights lawyer from St. …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Review: A potent and intimate take on ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ enthralls at A Noise Within

LA Times

Ed F. Martin, left, and Adrián González in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” at A Noise Within. Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono. The spell cast by the revival of “Kiss of the Spider …

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How a Venezuelan man new to politics became an opposition leader who says it’s his turn to rule

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Says 'Hooded Men' Kidnapped His Son-In-Law

Venezuelan opposition leader says his son-in-law has been kidnapped in Caracas

Venezuelan opposition leader urges supporters to demonstrate to force Maduro to leave office

Venezuela opposition leader recognized by US as election victor embarks on international tour

Venezuela opposition leader recognized by US as election victor embarks on international tour

Puerto Rico’s new governor sworn in days after a major blackout left much of the island in the dark

Puerto Rico swears in new governor days after blackout left much of the island in the dark

The global hunt for Putin’s ‘sleeper agents’

Venezuela's opposition leader says Maduro is 'weaker than ever'

Puerto Rico angry after a U.S. comedian calls it ‘a floating island of garbage’ at a Trump rally

Spanish prime minister meets with exiled Venezuelan opposition leader González

One-man rule: On Venezuela’s disputed presidential election

Opposition leader Gonzalez left country for asylum in Spain, says Venezuelan official

Venezuelan opposition candidate González has left the country for asylum in Spain

Latin American effort to mediate Venezuela standoff loses steam as Maduro consolidates rule

Poland indicts man with spying for Russia after freeing him in swap and investigates coconspirators

A Houston woman applied for a green card. She was banned from the U.S. for a decade.

Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives

Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

Daniel Noboa, heir to banana fortune, wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff election

Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years

Activists condemn violence against LGBTQ community in St. Vincent, where gay sex is illegal

Review: A potent and intimate take on ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ enthralls at A Noise Within