Venezuela

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,...

Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, is anticipated to declare on Saturday that he will run for a third term in elections on July 28. His 11 years in office have been characterized by economic collapse,...

US sanctions against Venezuela have caused losses of nearly 700 billion U.S. dollars in GDP, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said Monday. Venezuela’s oil industry sustained losses of almost 232 billion dollars due to the sanctions,...

According to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a mine collapse in La Paragua, the city of Angostura in the country’s southeast Bolivar state, resulted in fifteen fatalities and eleven injuries on Wednesday night. Following the tragic event,...