En todos los estados de Venezuela, los partidos políticos opositores se movilizaron la tarde de este jueves para exigir una fecha para las elecciones y el regreso de María Corina Machado al país. También protestaron por la lentitud en las negociaciones para una transición política. La manifestación había sido convocada hace semanas, pero ocurre un día después de que finalizara, sin grandes anuncios, la tercera ronda de la mesa de diálogo entre la Asamblea Nacional de 2015 y el Gobierno encargado, en la que el tema electoral, una vez más, no figuró en el centro de la agenda.

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Washington has stepped on the accelerator to renew Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal. It is its first major democratizing initiative in the country and the main task of the negotiation table between the 2015 National Assembly and the government of Delcy Rodríguez, which meets again this Wednesday. The goal is to have a new court by December, but beyond the outline the United States published last week, nothing is as yet known about the timetables, the profiles sought, the procedures to challenge appointments and how civil society will take part in a process crucial to a country that is supposedly moving toward a democratic transition.

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The government of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez has handed Álvaro Pulido — Álex Saab’s Colombian-born associate who had been held in Caracas since 2023 — over to the United States. The transfer was announced Sunday on X by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, while the Venezuelan government has remained silent on the case.

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The heirs of Oswaldo Cisneros, once one of Venezuela’s richest men, received unusual news last April: strangers were touring their oil fields in the Orinoco Belt. On paper, they remained the legitimate operators of the assets, but it soon became clear that, even as those visits took place in plain sight, a plan was being put in motion to take the fields away from them.

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