Venezuela

TikTok was fined $10 million by Venezuela’s top court on Monday for viral challenges that officials claim resulted in the deaths of three teenagers due to chemical poisoning. Judge Tania D’Amelio of the Supreme Tribunal of...

Venezuela’s administration said Thursday that more than 300 individuals detained during demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection had been freed from jail. Following a crackdown after Maduro’s reelection, which the opposition claimed was a sham, the...

On the eponymous Venezuelan paradise island, the Margarita hotel’s facade once featured five stars, but one of them has since fallen off. Not that anyone is around to notice. The deserted hotel’s deteriorating exterior serves as...

Venezuela’s parliament on Thursday passed a law punishing support for sanctions on President Nicolas Maduro’s regime by up to 30 years in prison, part of a widening crackdown on dissent in the Caribbean country. The law...

Venezuela and its most powerful ally Russia signed agreements Thursday on intelligence-gathering and counter-espionage as well as energy cooperation during a visit by a senior Kremlin official to Caracas. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told...

On Saturday, small groups of opposition protestors in Venezuela staged a rally, accompanied by supporters from outside the nation, to commemorate two months after the contentious election that President Nicolas Maduro declared to be his own....

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced concern Friday to President Nicolas Maduro about alleged human rights violations in Venezuela, in their first telephone conversation since the disputed July 28 presidential election. The men discussed the precarious...

After a statewide blackout that officials attributed to sabotage of the national electrical grid, power was progressively restored to Venezuela on Friday. This was the nation’s latest crisis following a contentious presidential election. Blackouts are common...

Venezuelan opposition supporters gathered in Caracas on Wednesday, chanting “Liberty!” as their leader came out of hiding to lead a protest against President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection, widely denounced as fraudulent. Maria Corina Machado, who has kept...

An oil spill has dumped black sludge on beaches along Venezuela’s northwestern coast and affected fishing in the area, residents and environmental activists said Monday. In Puerto Cabello, near the El Palito refinery — the scene...