Russian-Ukrainian crisis: Venezuela supports Moscow

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, October 15, 2021. © Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/REUTERS

By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |

Mikael Ponge Follow

2 mins

Vladimir Putin isolated on the international scene in this Russian-Ukrainian crisis, but the Russian president is supported against all odds by his Venezuelan ally.

Caracas, unfailing support, like an exchange of good practices.

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“Venezuela is with Putin, he is with Russia”: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro assured, on Tuesday February 22, 2022, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of his support in the crisis in Ukraine.

It's hardly a surprise.

Moscow is one of the main allies of President Nicolas Maduro, whose re-election in 2018 was not recognized by part of the international community, and in particular by the United States, which seeks to oust him from power.

The Venezuelan head of state himself recalled that his predecessor and mentor Hugo Chavez had supported Russia when it recognized the independence of South Ossetia in 2008 during the conflict with Georgia.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borissov, who was in Caracas last week, stressed that Caracas was a

In the context of the crisis in Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov had not ruled out a Russian military deployment in Venezuela and Cuba.

Bolivia: what application of sentences for the murderers of women?

Women's rights associations are angry.

Richard Choque, sentenced to life for the murder of a young woman has reoffended.

He raped dozens of times and killed two teenage girls.

The assassin was serving his sentence at home for a so-called incurable disease.

But he ended up confessing to having offered $3,500 and a bottle of whiskey to the judge to get him released from prison.

A sadly commonplace story in Bolivia that raises the issue of prison sentences and their application.

Many perpetrators of feminicides in Bolivia bribe the courts to escape detention.

The feminist collective Mujeres Creando estimates that there are around a hundred murderers involved.

More than 20,000 Haitian migrants have been deported by the Biden administration

More than 20,000 expulsions in one year of office, that's as many as in the last 20 years.

The data comes from an American NGO, the Quixote Center.

US President Joe Biden has therefore broken “all deportation records”.

Haitians returning to a country plagued by insecurity, plunged into political crisis and even in recent days, into a social crisis.

So many subjects that relegate the environmental issue to the background.

However, it is far from being a minor subject in Haiti, as the collective of Haitian photojournalists K2D deplores, at the initiative of an exhibition called "Emergency" which is held until the end of the week in Port -to the Prince.

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