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The cry of “freedom” of thousands of Venezuelans resounds in various cities of America
Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets this Saturday in various cities of America in “defense of the truth” and urged the Governments of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to take a clear position and pressure so that the National Electoral Council, which declared Nicolás Maduro re-elected president, to announce the disaggregated results of the elections of July 28, which according to the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia won.
From Canada to Argentina, these demonstrations take place in a context of great political tension, where the opposition denounced an “electoral fraud” in an election in which the majority of the diaspora could not participate in the face of bureaucratic obstacles, another of the great complaints of the thousands of Venezuelans against the Maduro Government.
The global marches were called by Venezuela’s largest opposition alliance, the Platform of Democratic Unity (PUD), led by María Corina Machado, to claim the truth of victory in the presidential elections.
In Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, Venezuelans and many local citizens, who marched in solidarity, criticized the position of the governments of these three countries, close to Maduro, which have adopted varied and changing positions regarding the crisis in Venezuela, while they have tried to make medication arrangements to provide a peaceful way out of the crisis.
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose party was one of the first to recognize Maduro’s triumph, has hardened his speech in recent days in the face of the official result of the presidential elections.
Both Lula and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, have put forward several proposals. The Brazilian proposed two solutions – the formation of a coalition government that integrates members of Chavismo and the opposition or the holding of new elections – and the Colombian suggested a “national front” as a “transitory” step towards a “definitive solution” to the crisis.
These alternatives have already been rejected by Chavismo and the opposition, both sides defend their victory in the presidential elections.
For Lorena Lara, a 44-year-old Venezuelan who has been living in Brazil for 17, the proposal “does not make sense” because the elections were already held “with the rules of the Government” and it has not yet “proved” the results published by the National Electoral Council and that gave the victory to Maduro.
While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated that Mexico’s position is to “wait” for what the electoral court resolves and criticized the governments and international organizations that have recognized González Urrutia’s victory.
“The position of the president of Mexico is a position, let’s say, like Pontius Pilate, it’s like wanting to save himself from giving an opinion that can then create a compromise, we don’t know what his reasons are,” Venezuelan dentist and university professor Juan Carlos Vielma told EFE.
Carrying flags, dressed in the colors of the national flag and with the printed ballots that, according to them, show that González Urrutia was the winner of the elections, many Venezuelans maintain “alive hope” that there will be freedom in their country, which they long for to returning soon.
In Colombia, Ana Ángela Jugo, who left Venezuela in 2019 after “a series of blackouts” in which they lasted several uninterrupted days without electricity and endangered the work with which she kept her family, said that her desire is to return, like that of many of the eight million Venezuelans who have left the country to other parts of America in recent years motivated by the economic crisis above all, but also by opposition to the Venezuelan Government.
Shouting “enough is enough!”, Venezuelans in Chile demanded that Maduro show all the minutes of the elections and leave power.
One of the organizers of the Toronto march, Rebeca Sarfatti, told EFE that the congregated represented “the democratic will of the Venezuelans of the world who passionately” want the end of the Maduro regime.
“I want to be recognized internationally and not to leave us alone. Don’t turn your back on us. Those elections in Venezuela were manipulated. Edmundo won,” Génesis Pernia, one of the Venezuelans present in the massive march and resident in Panama for almost a decade, told EFE.
In the rest of the main capitals of the world, thousands of Venezuelans also demonstrated as a show of strength and unity against the “fraud” that they say the Maduro Government committed in the presidential elections.
The surprise of the day took place in Caracas, the epicenter of the worldwide call of the PUD, with the reappearance of María Corina Machado before thousands of her followers, after spending several days “in protection” for her safety.
On the eve of the marches, twenty-two countries and a group of nations of the European Union asked for the “immediate publication of all the original minutes” of the elections and the “impartial and independent” verification of the results of those elections, according to a statement signed in Santo Domingo this Friday.
In addition, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved by consensus a resolution that requires the authorities of Venezuela to publish the “expitently” of the election minutes, which Venezuelans have been waiting for almost a month ago.
The non-binding text was presented on behalf of the United States and Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Suriname and Uruguay as co-sponsors.
International
Trump will receive Netanyahu at the White House next week
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington next week, a high-ranking official of Donald Trump’s government told EFE.
The visit, which according to the specialized portal Jewish Insider will take place on Monday, comes amid pressure from Washington to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza strip.
The US president launched a message on Sunday on his social network Truth calling for an immediate agreement to end the conflict and “release the hostages.”
This message follows another one from last Friday in which he assured that a solution to the conflict in Palestine could be reached as early as this week.
“We are working in Gaza and trying to solve it. We are supplying a lot of money and a lot of food to that area because we have to do it,” the president stressed at an event in Washington.
In addition to publicly insisting on his desire to reach a cease of hostilities in the region, Trump has also supported Netanyahu, a key ally, despite the fact that the Israeli is going through a judicial process where he is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three different criminal cases.
Israel has maintained its offensive in Gaza, in a resurgence of the conflict that has already lasted for more than a year and that leaves dozens of deaths daily.
The Israeli Army has intensified its attacks in the north of the Strip after ordering last Sunday the forced evacuation of residents in several neighborhoods of the capital of Gaza and the northern city of Yabalia.
Since October 7, 2023, at least 56,259 Palestinians have died and more than 132,000 have been injured by Israeli fire, according to figures from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government.
International
The US climate agency will lose access to key data for hurricane forecasting in July
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Monday that it will lose access to essential satellite data for the hurricane forecast on July 31, when the Department of Defense will stop sharing the images with that US agency.
Initially, NOAA was going to lose access to the data from today Monday, but managed to extend the deadline since NASA, which was also going to be affected by the measure, requested an extension until July 31.
According to a NOAA statement, late on Friday, June 27, the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command received a request from Karen St. Germain, director of NASA’s Earth Science Division, “to postpone the withdrawal and continue processing and distributing data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program until July 31.”
The original decision to cut off access to satellite data as of today was made with the aim of “mitigating a significant cybersecurity risk,” according to the note.
NOAA’s access to data provided by the Defense Weather Satellite Program was crucial for predicting hurricane formation, since they allowed to mediate variables that were not available to conventional satellites.
In addition, the measure takes place in the middle of hurricane season, which experts expect to be more intense than normal in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the Colorado State University (CSU), the probability of a major hurricane, category 3 or higher, impacting the United States in the current Atlantic cyclone season amounts to 51%.
This coincides with the approval in the Lower House of Congress of the controversial “great and beautiful bill” of US President Donald Trump, which includes a cut of almost 30% of the annual budget to NOAA and 646 million dollars to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
International
The Argentine justice declares Milei’s measure that limited the right to strike unconstitutional
The Justice of Argentina declared on Monday the unconstitutionality of two articles of the decree signed on May 20 by President Javier Milei that limited the right to strike of workers from various sectors, giving rise to a precautionary measure requested by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the main workers’ central of the country.
The decision was made by the National Labor Court No. 3, which ordered to stop the application of articles 2 and 3 of decree 340/2025, considering that they violate constitutional guarantees such as freedom of association and the right to strike, established in the Constitution and in international agreements signed by Argentina.
The decree modified article 24 of Law 25,877, which regulates collective labor conflicts, and declared a long list of activities as essential, limiting the possibility of its workers to carry out union action measures.
Judge Moira Fullana, who intervened in the case, argued that the unconstitutionality is based on the fact that, at the time of the signing of the decree, the National Congress was in full function, so there was no justification of necessity and urgency that deserved to skip the legislative treatment of such modifications.
On June 2, Fullana had provisionally failed to suspend the application of this measure, in response to another precautionary measure, requested by the Association of State Workers (ATE).
Until before its recent challenge, Decree 340/2025 required to guarantee between 50% and 75% of the usual benefits in sectors such as the production of medicines and/or hospital supplies, land and underground transport, radio and television, industrial activities, the food industry, the production and distribution of building materials, all airport services, logistics services, mining activity, refrigeration activity, mail and the distribution and marketing of food and beverages, among others, even during trade union conflicts.
The Government also included in that list of essential services all branches of maritime and river transport, customs, immigration services and education at all levels.
The measure, originally included in an extensive decree of general deregulation of the economy signed by Milei shortly after its assumption in December 2023, had already been unconstitutional by the Argentine Justice at that time.
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