Oleg Kostko / 6 Mar 2019.- The journalist Nelson Bocaranda revealed on Wednesday that the ruling party is testing a total blockade of the Internet throughout Venezuela or in the main cities of the country.

"Runrun: They are rehearsing a bigger blackout of the Internet that would cover the whole country or the most important cities. That is why there is no connectivity or intermittency of signals throughout today. Cuba advises Russian experts present? Nobody says anything," said Bocaranda on his Twitter account.

On several occasions, temporary blockades to social networks and news web portals have been reported. The last one that was known was on March 4 before the arrival of Juan Guaidó to Maiquetía and his subsequent speech at the Mercedes concentration in Caracas

As reported by the Netlblocks organization, on March 4 they were blocked by Cantv Twitter and the Soundcloud audio storage service temporarily.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian accounts of Venezuelan companies, including state oil firm PDVSA, will be moved to the Russian Financial Corporation Bank (Rusfincorp), which is sanctioned by the United States, a source told Reuters on Wednesday.

The decision had been agreed with the Russian government, the source, who is familiar with the negotiations, said, confirming an earlier report by the RIA news agency.

“This is not the Kremlin’s direct responsibility to open accounts and coordinate with business,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, while Rusfincorp said that it has no information that Venezuelan companies, including PDVSA, intended to transfer their accounts to the bank. Reuters reported last month that Russian lender Gazprombank had decided to freeze the accounts of PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S. sanctions.

Russian authorities made the decision to move the Venezuelan accounts after consultations with their counterparts and business in Venezuela, two sources familiar with the negotiations were cited as saying by RIA.

The United States imposed sanctions against Rusfincorp, which is owned by Russian arms exporter Rosoboroneksport, and some businessmen in April 2018 in one of Washington’s most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other “malign activity.”

March 6, 2019 - After the failure of the attempts to overthrow Nicolás Maduro's government, the United States threatens the members of Caracas with sanctions, Russian Senator Igor Morozov told Sputnik.

"The blitzkrieg failed, Nicolás Maduro did not flee, the Army is loyal to the oath and the majority of the population does not see the US protege as president," the senator said.

So the US now goes on to practice a policy of "scorched earth."

"That is to say, to burn everything that can help in some way to preserve the constitutional order in Venezuela, among other tactics, to exert the pressure of sanctions against those who do not support the open aggression of the United States against this country," he said.

The US special representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, stated previously that Washington does not rule out sanctions against third countries for doing business with the Venezuelan authorities.

The US Administration's national security adviser, John Bolton, promised to increase economic pressure on Cuba for its "role in Venezuela," especially targeting its military and intelligence services.

Venezuela is going through a political crisis that worsened on January 23, after opposition leader Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself "president in charge" of the country.

The Venezuelan head of state, Nicolás Maduro, who assumed the second term on January 10, described Guaidó's statement as an attempted coup and blamed the US for having orchestrated it.

Guaidó was recognized by the United States, most of the member countries of the Lima Group and several other countries in the Americas, as well as by a large number of the member states of the European Union (EU).

Russia, as well as Bolivia, China, Cuba, Iran, Turkey and other countries, reaffirmed their support for the Venezuelan Government.

So far, the United States has only imposed direct sanctions against Venezuelan leaders and companies.

José Luis Pirela, deputy to the National Assembly, denounced that officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) who did not comply with the order to arrest Juan Guaidó, interim president of Venezuela, at the Simón Bolívar International Airport, were transferred to Fuerte Tiuna.

The parliamentarian warned that the arrest warrant against the interim president continues in force. He called on the international community to be attentive to what might happen in the country.

"The GNB at the airport did not execute the order to arrest Juan Guaidó. The officials were transferred to Fuerte Tiuna. The capture order is valid. Alert Venezuela, alerts world leaders, "Pirela said on Twitter.

Guaidó entered the country through the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Vargas state, after returning from a tour of several Latin American countries to define the next actions, with respect to the situation in Venezuela.

4 March 2019 - "If attempts are made to deprive Russian companies of investments in the country's economy, we will react in the harshest way, resorting to all available measures of international law," the ambassador affirmed. Russia in Venezuela, Vladimir Zayemski, in an interview for Rossíiskaya Gazeta published on Monday.

This way Zayemski has pronounced itself on the possibility that the Russian entities want to deprive them of their investments in Venezuela. "As far as Russian investments in Venezuela are concerned, the risks undoubtedly exist, but they are linked, as the example with Citgo clearly demonstrated, to the conduct of Washington and not to the Venezuelan Government," the Russian ambassador said.

At the end of January USA it froze some 7,000 million dollars in assets of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and also granted Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself president in charge of Venezuela until new elections are held, the control over certain assets of his country kept in accounts of the Central Bank of Venezuela or the Government of Nicolás Maduro.

The threat of a US military intervention in Venezuela "it's real"

Zayemski also affirmed that "the US and its allies are making various efforts to increase their military presence in some areas adjoining Venezuela."

"Unfortunately, the threat of military intervention in this Latin American republic is real for now," he said.

The Russian diplomat stressed that he can not predict "how Washington will act, that in the last three years it has violated all conceivable and inconceivable rules of interstate communication and international law with respect to Venezuela."

"One thing is certain, the consequences of a military intervention in the territory of an independent State will be the most deplorable, both for Venezuela, and for the entire Latin American region," he added.

I have three small children," said the so-called "protector" of Táchira on the Sunday program of José Vicente Rangel on Televen. "And I do not want a war. But just as I do not want a war, I took my two oldest sons ... we were willing to win or die. We did not go there looking for a prebend, we did not go to the border looking for a promotion ... to seek recognition. We went there because between Bolívar and Chávez they taught us that the country does not sell".

And he went on, assuring that he came back from the border more convinced than ever that the Bolivarian revolution will not be overthrown. "And if in the supposed denied that this madness will happen will be a regional war ... Colombia will feel what a war is. Because a war against Venezuela is a war in Colombian territory. What will they think, that they will attack us and we will reach the border line? No. As Roy Chaderton says, I do not know if it will be the opportunity to go directly to the Pacific and ... to free Colombia from that bourgeoisie, that oligarchy, which has trampled on it for 200 years. I hope not and I do not want to sound terrible."

Friends in the Colombian National Police

During the Bernal program he claimed to have friends within the Colombian National Police who passed on data to him last week.

"You know. José Vicente, that I did courses of special intelligence operations in Colombia, in the year 1990. In the Jiménez De Quesada School, and I have friendship with high officials of the National Police of Colombia, of the Army. And although some do not share our ideology there is a relationship of friends. A senior officer of the National Police tells me: Bernal, they ordered us to patrol together with the US forces. And they are right now under the bridge. I went there and actually saw them. And I saw a reconnaissance squad of the Colombian Army with US officers patrolling three meters from the shore of Colombia, below the Tienditas bridge. That was Thursday, the 21st."

He added that other information from a Colombian led to the closure of the border. "With that information that this official friend gave me, I have to say, on the Colombian side, he says: Bernal, there is an incursion at 1 am on the bridges ... President Nicolás Maduro made the decision to close the border. If you (Maduro) do not close the border, today would be another story for Venezuela."

03 / 03.- Social organizations, human rights defenders as well as trade unions and movements have joined the proposal of PROVEA and Peace Laboratory to denounce the situation that the Pemón indigenous people have lived since last February 22nd, when they started a process of repression and extermination, of which there are already 6 indigenous people killed and 10 of them wounded, as well as the Creole population of Santa Elena de Uairén. Below the communiqué and the list of adherent organizations:

Press Release: Stop the persecution and torture against members of the Pemón Indigenous People

We would like to express our deep sorrow and condolences to the families of victims of the Santa Elena de Uairén massacre, which took place on February 22 and 23, 2019. Three Pemón Indians: Zoraida Rodríguez, José Elsey Pérez Márquez and Kleyver Pérez; and two non-indigenous Venezuelans José Hernández and José Barrios Carrasco. They were killed by firearms, in the exercise of their right to peaceful demonstration, by the Bolivarian National Guard.

We affirm our commitment to achieve justice and that there is no impunity in this state crime. We welcome the precautionary measures filed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) MC-181-19, which oblige Venezuela to protect and guarantee the life and integrity of Pemón Indians and the community of San Francisco de Yuruaní, Kumaracapai. We advocate for its strict compliance by Nicolás Maduro, Gen. Vladimir Padrino López, Tarek William Saab, Alfredo Ruíz, Justo Noguera, as well as national military and police officers in charge of the operations in Santa Elena de Uairen, Maurak and its surroundings.

However, we denounce that the repression and harassment against the Pemón people and communities on the border with Brazil is maintained. 58 people have been arrested (16 Pemon Indians, 4 teenagers, 20 of them still without presentation and behind bars in the Escamoto Fort). The General Hospital in Brazil reported that it had received 23 bullet wounded, 13 of them seriously, between February 22 and 24.

March 3, 2019.- In Gaceta Extaordinaria No. 6,430 dated February 27, 2019, the decree of the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela No. 3,776 was published, whereby 116 members and military professionals are degraded and expelled. of the Bolivarian National Armed Force.

Article 1. Degrade and Expel For the Offenses of Desertion and Treason to the Nation to the military professional citizens that are indicated below.

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For being unworthy of belonging to the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and in defense of the validity and full effectiveness of the Constitution of the Republic; for having broken with his behavior the duties, values, principles and the decorum of the profession that represent the Military Institution; This action is understood as an exemplary measure that guarantees the efficient functioning, useful employment and morality of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and not as a penalty that in any case must be the consequence of a criminal process.

Article 2 The decision contained in this Decree necessarily implies the loss of the degree and national decorations; without prejudice to the actions and consequences arising from the corresponding process known to the competent authorities.

Article 3. The measure taken in this Decree recognizes and respects the rights acquired in matters of social security, in accordance with the current legal system.

Article 4 The Minister of Popular Power for Defense is in charge of the execution of this Decree.

Article 5 The present decree will become effective as of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

In times of war, the allies are fundamental, wherever they come from, this concept was understood very well by the government of Nicolás Maduro and in the hands of Iris Varela the minister for the Penitentiary Service, a leadership of an improvised army is carried out, a troop used as a gestapo, ready to eliminate the enemies of the rulers. It is no wonder that grotesque news of abuses of the rule of law erupts everywhere in Venezuela, ungovernability gives time for all these ilk, and the apparent disunity of the armed force generates the perfect space for the army led by Iris to appear.

It was not enough only with the Chavez colectivos, this army was armed mainly with the inmates that under the figure "new men" go out to repress, to fulfill what many officers of the armed forces have refused.

"There is no legal condition for a Venezuelan to defend his homeland. Prisoners are new men" These were the words of Minister Iris Varela, when she was interviewed by the Táchira television station; affirming that the inmates who support the government have all the power to leave their prison and join a kind of inmate militia. There are many reports of armed civilians in different parts of Venezuela, creating nerves for the population. A true Bolivarian armed wing that could cause a civil war. It should be noted that in 20 years of revolution, the prison crisis increased in an incredible way, inside the prisons inhabit the most dangerous criminal gangs, which have total control of the prison spaces and street crime, the criminals have all A facility to put together your organization and plan and execute any criminal plan. Now it is these same criminals who guard the borders and prevent the entry of humanitarian aid.

Humberto Prado, general coordinator of the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons (OVP) asked to investigate the minister for the Penitentiary Service, Iris Varela, who ordered the transfer of 30 prisoners from the Santa Ana prison, Táchira state, to bet on the border with Colombia This is what the carabobeño newspaper pointed out.

The despair experienced by the ruling party in these times is evident. The national assembly, the community in general and the NGOs, should ask for an explanation of the release of the inmates at the service of the government of the mature, the management of the inmates as gestapos and curb the axiomatic violation of the rights of the inmates.