The secretary of state claims the White House only discouraged the opposition leader’s return in the days after the double earthquake. Machado had unsuccessfully tried to go home on at least seven occasions
Supporters celebrated openly in Caracas while the government led by Delcy Rodríguez remained silent and did not make any effort to repress the demonstrators
The opposition leader has managed to return after several failed attempts and nearly 10 months abroad, posing a direct challenge to the Venezuelan government
The appointment of the new justices is Washington’s first major democratizing initiative. But civil society demands transparency about the process
The Venezuelan government has handed over Álvaro Pulido to Washington. The man lived under the identity of a deceased person and, according to experts, ‘knows where all the money is’
The public is gradually speaking out against Chavismo amid the U.S.-led transition
The human rights organization, expelled from the country over a critical report, calls for the “unconditional” release of political prisoners and arbitrarily detained people
A California company was awarded contracts for six Venezuelan oil fields that just weeks earlier were controlled by the heirs of Venezuelan businessman Oswaldo Cisneros
Experts are skeptical of the promised production levels and investment commitments
Energy rationing is crippling businesses and leaving entire families trapped in despair
Migrants expelled by the United States are no longer sent to facilities like the hotel where more than a hundred Venezuelans were buried when it collapsed in La Guaira on June 24
The government and the opposition launched talks last week aimed at paving the way for elections
Afterwards, the parties said they would remain in continuous working sessions until August 12, when they will decide whether to continue the talks. Opposition leader María Corina Machado has been left out of the process
The case of Cristina Margarita Ramos exposes the chaos in the management of the deceased after the disaster
The Delcy Rodríguez government, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and CAF are taking part in the post-disaster assessment, while controlled demolitions of damaged buildings begin in La Guaira
Talks between Chavismo and the opposition are set to begin on August 1 under Washington’s supervision. The goal is to establish a path toward new elections, two years after Nicolás Maduro falsely claimed victory
With the death toll topping 5,300 and no official count of the missing, residents have taken the search for victims into their own hands as government machinery threatens to clear the ruins before many families have recovered their loved ones
Liliana Figueroa is searching for the bodies of her daughter, Angelina, and her former partner. She identified both in morgue photographs, but when she opened the body bags where they were supposed to be, she found other people inside
The international agency says overcrowded shelters, vaccine shortages and a collapsing healthcare system threaten to spark disease outbreaks
At Caracas’s main morgue, families are identifying loved ones using photos of hundreds of victims
Six months after the political shift triggered by the American military intervention, the penal reform promised by Delcy Rodríguez’s administration raises doubts about its true scope
The government raises the death toll to 920 and places the number of injured at upwards of 3,000 one day after the back-to-back quakes
Dozens of buildings have collapsed in the capital, Caracas, and the airport roof has caved in, according to official reports. The number of casualties is expected to rise. The government has declared a state of emergency
Dinorah Figuera, who was president of the parallel opposition National Assembly of 2015, returns to Caracas from her exile in Spain to meet with Chavista leaders and the U.S. envoy
NGOs report there are at least 21 people irregularly detained whose whereabouts are unknown. In one case, the family has been searching for eight years
Héctor Rovaín, Luis Molina, and Erasmo Bolívar were convicted, without evidence, over deaths that occurred in 2002 during protests in which Hugo Chávez was briefly ousted
The release of the 16-year-old comes amid outrage over the death of Carmen Navas, the mother of a political prisoner who died in state custody