Venezuela

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...

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...