“I am proposing … to see if it’s possible to give the Russian vaccine to all … 14,400 candidates who have registered for the election … so that they can take to the streets and campaign from neighbourhood to neighbourhood safely,” Maduro said in a televised speech.
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The US gave the Venezuelan envoys 48 hours to leave the country, in a retaliatory move against Venezuela’s expulsion of US envoys by President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday.
Brent crude futures rose to $80.41 a barrel, by 11:12am EDT (1512 GMT).
Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma, who were taken into custody earlier Tuesday, were “political prisoners being held illegally by the regime,” Trump continued.