Latin America

Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who proclaimed himself the interim president of Venezuela in January 2019, earlier admitted that he considers a US military intervention to be a viable option to resolve the ongoing political crisis in his country.

The buildings of the Casa Rosada and Argentinian Congress in Buenos Aires have been evacuated, according to the news website Timing Politic.

Self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido, who has been trying to oust Nicolas Maduro for months, has appointed socialite Vanessa Neumann from the US to represent him in Britain. Although London has recognised the opposition leader as Venezuela’s head of state, his envoy does not seem to have got the same satisfaction.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The defence team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal against a decision by Quito to give Assange's documents currently at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to Washington, Assange's Ecuadorian lawyer Carlos Poveda told Sputnik.

Hector Olivares, a lawmaker from the Argentine province of La Rioja, was wounded in a parked car by three shots near the Congress in the centre of Buenos Aires on Thursday morning, while his colleague, Miguel Marcelo Yadon, was killed near the congressional building, local media reported.

Earlier, Venezuela’s self-appointed interim president Juan Guaido spoke to Italian La Stampa, arguing that a US military intervention is “one of the possibilities” for resolving the political crisis in his country.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Bodies of a total of 35 people were found in three unmarked graves in the Mexican state of Jalisco, State Prosecutor Gerardo Octavio Solis said on Saturday.

The development comes after a failed coup attempt which took place on 30 April and Guaido's subsequent statement that he would "perhaps" agree to US military intervention if it would help resolve the political crisis in his country.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - At least one person has been killed following a blast at a fireworks market in the city of Tultepec in State of Mexico, Luis Felipe Puente, head of the country's Civil Protection agency, said on Saturday.

This comes as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed on Saturday that the country's former intelligence chief Cristopher Figuera “was captured by the CIA a year ago and was working as a traitor, mole and infiltrator”.

BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Four people have died and at least 26 were injured on Friday during a powerful explosion at a pyrotechnics factory in Bogota, local media reported.

BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - A US ship entered the Venezuelan waters, but changed course after communicating with the Venezuelan Navy, the agency said on Friday.

US contacts with Venezuelan military figures have increased significantly since last week's attempted coup d'etat by self-proclaimed Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaido, a US officials told Reuters Friday, the outlet reports.

Earlier the United States has lifted all sanctions on Venezuela's former intelligence service chief Gen. Manuel Cristopher Figuera after he broke ranks with President Nicolas Maduro last week to support opposition leader Juan Guaido.

A deputy to self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido, earlier prosecuted for his role in the failed coup on 30 April, has fled to Colombia. This comes after one of Guaido's deputies Edgar Zambrano was jailed for treason, conspiracy, civil rebellion, while another - Americo de Grazia, reportedly took refuge in the Italian embassy in Caracas.

BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Caracas has decided to reopen Venezuela's land border with Brazil, as well as aviation and sea traffic with Aruba, a Dutch island in the Caribbean, but keep borders with Colombia closed, the country’s Vice President Tareck El Aissami said on Friday.

Washington has issued several rounds of increasingly tough sanctions against Caracas, targeting its banking and oil sectors, as well as foreign companies, individuals and state assets in countries abroad.

On Wednesday, the deputy speaker of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, Edgar Zambrano, was apprehended by intelligence agents for his support of the failed uprising orchestrated by the country's self-proclaimed president, Guaido.

This echoes Guaido's previous statement that he is still trying to find the “best exit out” of the Venezuela crisis. The situation in the South American country escalated on 30 April, when Guaido unsuccessfully tried to initiate a coup to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A court in Ecuador has revoked the decision on pre-trial detention of ex-Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, known to be a supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ruling that Patino should pay a bail of $50,000 to avoid detention.