Chavismo had been withholding any information about this call for days, giving rise to endless speculation. Experts say it could be a first step toward continuing dialogue within a context of heightened tension
Despite Donald Trump’s statement that Venezuelan airspace was closed, the two weekly flights to Caracas carrying deported migrants will resume
Only a handful of aircraft still dot the Venezuelan sky, which Washington has turned into an exclusion zone in what amounts to another tool of political pressure by the Trump administration
The message that the Venezuelan leader sought to convey at the close of Tuesday’s march was both an internal response to reinforce the regime’s cohesion, and an external signal of defiance against US pressure
The suspension of international flights to Caracas due to the risks of flying over Venezuelan territory has raised tensions in the region
Human Rights Watch documented the mistreatment of 252 migrants that the Trump administration sent to El Salvador, and who were later released and returned to Caracas
Caracas expands its military deployment while US attacks against alleged drug boats intensify
The Venezuelan leader is digging in his heels. There are no signs of internal cracks despite escalating US military pressure
The plan to hasten the Venezuelan leader’s downfall with a naval deployment in the Caribbean and a campaign of extrajudicial attacks on alleged drug boats has raised questions about what could come next
In his first public appearance since María Corina Machado won the Nobel Prize, the Venezuelan president insists that Chavismo is ready to fight against the threats of imperialism
In a letter to the president of the Security Council, the Nicolás Maduro government warns of ‘an impending aggression’
The government understands that the US warships anchored in the Caribbean Sea are not focusing on alleged drug shipments as much as they are on President Maduro and his closest aides
The warning comes after Trump sent a confidential notice to Congress stating that the United States is in a ‘noninternational armed conflict’ with drug cartels
The fact-finding mission found arbitrary arrests, sexual abuse in prisons, and disappearances of human rights activists and politicians. Caracas rejected the accusations and discredited the mission’s work
Military operations in the Caribbean have been accompanied by a strategy of pressure through intimidating messages
Most of the 11 occupants of the vessel — which departed from Venezuela and was blown up by the United States — came from a small coastal town taken over by drug trafficking
The attack on an alleged drug-running vessel marks a milestone in the strained relations between the two countries
The president says his country is facing the greatest threat Latin America has seen in 100 years: ‘We are witnessing how the Miami mafia has seized political power in the White House and the State Department’
The former Marine Dahud Hanid Ortiz drove 1,242 miles from Germany to Spain to commit an atrocious crime for which he has served a fraction of his sentence thanks to the recent US-Venezuela prisoner exchange
Migrants deported from the US to El Salvador and now returned to Venezuela tell EL PAÍS about four months of continuous punishment and total uncertainty about their fate
Dahud Hanid Ortiz was serving 30 years in a Venezuelan prison for a triple homicide he committed in Spain in 2016. But the State Department applauds that there are no more Americans ‘wrongfully detained’ in the Latin American country
Dahud Hanid Ortiz landed Friday in Texas from Caracas, where he was sentenced to 30 years for a crime committed in the Spanish capital in 2016
In a new report, the organization urges the world not to normalize the human rights crisis in the country
The massive exodus has given rise to a new service: clearing out the homes of those who have decided they’re not coming back
The Venezuelan opposition leader asserts that the US-led rescue operation to extract five opposition members demonstrates Maduro’s ‘vulnerability’
The US Secretary of State considers Caracas’ sovereignty claims over the Essequibo region to be illegitimate, and expresses support for the small oil-rich nation where ExxonMobil operates
The Maduro government is threatening to take legal action against what it considers a violation of international trade laws