Venezuela

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...

Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the opposition presidential candidate from Venezuela who asserted he had defeated Nicolas Maduro in the election held last month, declared on Monday that he was prepared to discuss a transition and asked the...

Venezuela’s opposition, claiming victory in presidential elections they say were stolen by strongman Nicolas Maduro, gathered in the thousands in Caracas and elsewhere on Saturday, vowing to fight “to the end.” People rallied in several cities...

President Nicolas Maduro on Friday ruled out negotiating with opposition leader Maria Corina Machado after he appeared before Venezuela’s Supreme Court, asking the country’s top judicial body to ratify his disputed reelection. He was responding to...

Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the opposition candidate from Venezuela who believes he is the legitimate victor of the nation’s presidential election, disobeyed a summons from the Supreme Court on Wednesday on the contentious results. Without providing comprehensive...

As he prepares for this month’s election, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday that negotiations with the US, which has reinstated harsh sanctions on the nation’s oil sector, would soon resume. After two months of...

According to her party on Sunday, three Venezuelan activists were detained following their participation in a campaign rally alongside opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. This development heightens worries about President Nicolas Maduro’s administration’s repression of dissent...

The state-owned PDVSA Petroleo of Venezuela and the Canada-based LNG Energy Group stated on Wednesday that they had signed an agreement, though there may be issues due to the US oil sanctions being renewed. According to...

Authorities in Venezuela announced on Tuesday that they had removed about 10,000 people from an illicit gold mine that collapsed in February, killing at least sixteen people. Bulla Loca mine in Bolivar state, Venezuela’s Amazon area,...