
Venezuela faces its most tense Christmas yet
This holiday season is overshadowed by unprecedented tensions between the country and the United States

This holiday season is overshadowed by unprecedented tensions between the country and the United States

Following Trump’s call to consider the airspace closed as part of his pressure campaign against the Maduro regime, many members of Spain’s large Venezuelan community will be unable to spend time with their loved ones

The country’s enormous energy and mineral resources are consolidating as a key factor in the geopolitical dispute and in Venezuela’s institutional collapse

The seizure of tankers points to a gradual plan to cripple the finances of Nicolás Maduro’s regime

Caracas accuses the Caribbean island nation of participating in the seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast

The US president says the military deployment in the Caribbean will continue until the Maduro regime returns ‘the oil, land and other assets they stole from us’

The opposition leader, who declined to provide any details about her next steps, asserts that ‘time is against Nicolás Maduro and the regime, and in favor of the opposition, of Venezuelans’

The White House anticipates further interceptions of vessels and is preparing sanctions against the nephews of the leader of the Chavista regime

Jørgen Watne Frydnes’ message is clear: Maduro must accept the election results and lay the groundwork for a peaceful transition

The opposition leader is traveling to Norway but will not be present at the award ceremony. The prize committee highlighted her struggle to promote democracy in her country and her leadership of the resistance against Nicolás Maduro

In recent months, the opposition leader has joined the Republican’s efforts to pressure Maduro to relinquish power

The Venezuelan opposition leader has been organizing internal resistance and persuading Washington to toughen its stance against Nicolás Maduro

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

The Venezuelan president swore in the ‘grassroots Bolivarian commands’ and announced the creation of a new political bureau with trusted aides to face the threats from Washington

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

In Doral, the city with the highest concentration of Venezuelans in the US, residents are divided between those who see military action against Maduro as the only possible solution and those who favor dialogue

Another 1.3 million are waiting for an appointment. The avalanche of applications in the final months before a deadline expired could delay the process for years. Most applicants come from Argentina, followed by Cuba and Mexico

The phone conversation took place amid the military escalation and, according to the newspaper, opens the door to a diplomatic path that contrasts with the drug trafficking accusations

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 talk, for which no date has yet been set, aims to pave the way for a diplomatic solution to the bilateral tensions

The designation of the Cartel of the Suns as a foreign terrorist organization becomes effective Monday. The US administration says this provides ‘new tools’ for the US military campaign in the Caribbean

Opposition leader María Corina Machado predicted on Wednesday that there are ‘decisive hours’ ahead for a transition in the South American country

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

A psychologist and a musician, two of the 250,000 Venezuelans who are about to lose protection from deportation, tell EL PAÍS how the life they have built in the US is collapsing

The president says he ‘doubts’ the US will go to war with the Caribbean nation, in an interview with ’60 Minutes’

The US president denies reports suggesting an imminent operation

The bolivar has been steadily losing ground, and the dollar has devalued by 60% since August