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☆ Venezuela’s Supreme Court certifies Maduro’s claims that he won presidential election
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that he won last month’s presidential election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged. The high court is packed with Maduro loyalists and has almost never ruled against the government. Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice President Caryslia Rodriguez in Caracas on Aug. 22. Gabriel Boric, the leftist president of Chile and one of the main critics of Maduro’s election gambit, lambasted the high court’s certification. “Today, Venezuela’s TSJ has finally consolidated the fraud,” he said on his X account referring to the initials of the high court.

Persons: Venezuela —, Nicolás Maduro’s, Maduro, Caryslia Rodriguez, Federico Parra, Edmundo González, ” González, Maria Corina Machado, Nicolas Maduro, Cristian Hernandez, González, Gabriel Boric, Venezuela’s TSJ, ” Organizations: Venezuela — Venezuela’s, Venezuelan, Getty, United Nations, Carter Center Locations: CARACAS, Venezuela, Caracas, AFP, Venezuelan, North Macedonia, Chile

☆ In pictures: Russia recruits Cubans in war against Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

[5/11]Yoan Viondi, right, and Cristian Hernandez, left, speak with Reuters in Villa Maria, Cuba. Viondi corresponded over Whatsapp with a Cuban woman known as Dayana who he said bought plane tickets to Russia for recruits. He later became anxious and cut contact with her. Everyone said, 'If I choose this, I won't die of hunger in Cuba,'" he said. REUTERS/Alexandre MeneghiniVILLA MARIA, CUBA

Persons: Viondi, Cristian Hernandez, Alexandre Meneghini VILLA Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS Locations: Villa Maria, Cuba, Cuban, Russia, Alexandre Meneghini VILLA MARIA, CUBA

☆ Russia is luring Cubans to Ukraine with fast-tracked citizenship and a lucrative signing bonus: 'Almost all of our friends have gone'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia lures Cubans to fight in Ukraine with offers of fast-tracked citizenship, Reuters reported. Recruiters are also offering a signing bonus worth more than what the average Cuban makes in a year. "Almost all of our friends have gone over there," one Cuban man told the news agency. Hundreds of Cubans, meanwhile, have headed in the other direction as Russia turns to foreign fighters to fill its trenches. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Everyone here knew what they were coming for," a Cuban man at a training camp in Russia told Reuters.

Persons: —, Vladimir Putin, Cristian Hernandez, Dayana Organizations: Reuters, Service Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Cuban, Havana, Russian

☆ Special Report: How Cubans were recruited to fight for Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Dave Sherwood | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

In La Federal, for example, all nine recruits identified by Reuters signed up to fight in the war. "We are deeply concerned by reports alleging young Cubans have been deceived and recruited to fight for Russia," the spokesperson said. In La Federal, word of the army work began to spread in June, according to the residents interviewed. The first line of the message states: "This is a contract with the Russian military by which you receive citizenship." He stressed that the people who signed up in La Federal knew they would be going to fight.

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