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Maduro says that “no one will veto or silence the country” on his return after the BRICS summit
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said this Saturday, on his return to the nation after participating in the BRICS summit in Russia, that “no one will veto or silence” the country, after Brazil vetoed the entry of the nation of South America to the group of emerging economies.
“There is no force in this land that silences the voice of rebellion and justice of Venezuela, neither today nor tomorrow nor ever, no one will veto or silence Venezuela and anyone who tries will dry up (will be forgotten),” said the president, in a brief welcome ceremony broadcast by the state channel VTV, without mentioning Brazil or Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Maduro assured that Venezuela’s participation in the BRICS summit, held this week in Kazan, Russia, was “stellar, exemplary, beautiful.”
Maduro: “We are on the right side of history”
“It fully ratifies that we are on the right side of history and we are at the forefront of the new world that has been born, the multipolar, multicentric, pluripolar world,” he added.
On Friday, Brazilian government sources told EFE that Maduro tried to pressure “at the last minute” to get Venezuela included in the list of countries associated with the BRICS, to which Brazil reacted by demonstrating against it “emphatically.”
Brazil refused to join Venezuela in the list of associated countries because, “at this time,” relations between the two countries “are not friendly,” according to the sources.
“Hostile gesture of Brazil”
At the end of the summit, the Maduro Government described Brazil’s veto as a “hostile gesture” and an “aggression” against the nation’s interests.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said that this veto is “reproducing the hatred, exclusion and intolerance promoted from the Western centers of power to prevent, for now, the entry of Bolivar’s homeland into this organization.”
Relations between Caracas and Brasilia have deteriorated as a result of the Venezuelan presidential elections, in which Maduro was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE), in a decision questioned by the opposition.
Brazil has refused to recognize Maduro’s victory and has repeatedly asked the Venezuelan authorities to disclose the electoral records to demonstrate the triumph of the Chavista leader over the opposition Edmundo González Urrutia.
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Thirteen cuban military members missing after explosion at arms warehouse
Thirteen members of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) have been reported “missing” following an explosion at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the eastern part of the island, the military institution announced.
“As a result of the explosions at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the Melones community… in the province of Holguín, 730 km east of Havana,” two officers, two non-commissioned officers, and nine soldiers are reported as “missing,” according to a statement from the Ministry of the Armed Forces released by Cuban state television.
The statement specified that “investigations are still ongoing at the site,” which led to the evacuation of more than 1,200 residents from areas near the warehouse of a military unit where “aged ammunition was being classified.”
Neither the official press nor Cuban state television have provided images of the explosions at the military unit, but independent media outlets published photos online showing a massive column of smoke and police officers deployed in the streets of the Melones community.
International
Trump considers declaring National Economic Emergency to justify universal tariffs
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may be considering declaring a national economic emergency in order to justify implementing a package of universal tariffs on both allied and adversary countries, according to CNN.
The proclamation of these measures would grant the incoming U.S. president the freedom to create a new tariff program using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
This move would give the president the authority to manage imports during a national emergency.
According to the report, Trump has a penchant for this law as it provides broad jurisdiction on how tariffs are implemented without strict requirements to prove they are necessary for national security reasons.
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Venezuelan opposition candidate Enrique Márquez detained ahead of Maduro’s inauguration
Enrique Márquez, a minority opposition candidate in Venezuela’s July 28 elections, was “arbitrarily detained,” denounced a political coalition he is part of and his wife, who described the action as “kidnapping.”
Since Tuesday night, there has been a wave of reports of detentions, with at least a dozen arrests just over 48 hours before President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third six-year term, following a controversial reelection.
“We inform that yesterday, 07.01.25, Enrique Márquez was arbitrarily detained,” stated the Popular Democratic Front (FDP).
“He was kidnapped by paramilitary groups who, using force as their law, aim to silence and intimidate those of us who want a better country and have a different vision,” said his wife, Sonia Lugo de Márquez, on the leader’s X account.
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