
The revolving doors of Venezuelan prisons
Police officers violently raided the offices of teachers’ union leader Víctor Venegas and imprisoned him. He recently organized protests for education workers demanding better salaries

Police officers violently raided the offices of teachers’ union leader Víctor Venegas and imprisoned him. He recently organized protests for education workers demanding better salaries

Residents of the jungle region of Guyana, rich in oil and gold mines, respond to the threats being made by President Nicolás Maduro: ‘I don’t want to be Venezuelan, no way’

Via a law announced Tuesday, Venezuela will create a new province or state in the disputed territory, having already appointed a single provisional authority: Major-General Alexis Rodríguez Cabello

Rafael Lacava, a close ally of the Venezuelan president, met with leaders and businessmen in an official effort to realign Caracas’ interests with Beijing

The announcement of international investments in the oil sector by companies such as Repsol, Ecopetrol, China Petroleum, and Indian Oil will mean economic expansion by 2024

Chavismo has once again made a demonstration of its power and, through the judicial bodies it controls, issued an order to suspend the process of the opposition primary elections

The meetings that Caracas and Washington have been holding for a year in Doha have paved the way for the Maduro government to return to the negotiating table

In Ciudad Juárez, hundreds of migrants, especially Venezuelans, are waiting to cross and surrender to the border police, encouraged by many others who have already done it. Their fate: a legal limbo awaiting deportation trials

The capital of Venezuela isn’t able to escape the precariousness being suffered in the rest of the country. Large sectors of the city go without water, while residents live with constant blackouts and electricity rationing

The capture of ‘El Niño Guerrero,’ the leader of the international criminal organization, has not been confirmed despite the massive police and military operation

Venezuelan businessman Diego Salazar – the cousin of former minister Rafael Ramírez – accumulated a personal art collection of 67 works. He did this while leading a plot to money-launder $2 billion in Andorra, which he and his fellow Chavistas embezzled from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)

The Maduro government is facing serious obstacles in selling its oil and accessing international credit, blaming restrictions for the economic crisis, but experts point out the collapse predates them

The government of Nicolás Maduro has attempted to halt the process, which Caracas claims is being driven by Washington, through various judicial resources

From 2015 to 2018, the rate rose from 3.8 to 9.3 per 100,000 inhabitants; men between the ages of 30 and 64 and youths between 15 and 24 are the most at risk

As immigration restrictions tighten up across Latin America and Venezuelans face rising xenophobia in other countries, thousands of citizens are returning to a more unequal and expensive nation

Vadell’s lawyers allege Citgo lured him and the other executives, who became known as the Citgo 6, as part of a scheme to be used as “political pawns”

The U.S. State Department says the funding will help people facing food, water and other challenges in the country

Currency devaluation and soaring inflation have crushed monthly incomes to rock-bottom levels

As the nation reflects on Chávez’s death a decade ago, Venezuelans recognize that Maduro’s approach to running the oil-rich South American country is unlike his mentor’s

Many children have grown up being forced to eat nutrient-deficient food or skip meals, wave goodbye to migrating parents and sit in crumbling classrooms

As people continue to migrate, mostly to elsewhere in Latin America, there’s an increasing divide between those who stayed and those who left. These are some of their stories

Fake news stories about economic improvement presented by computer-made ‘reporters’ have begun circulating online, evidencing how the technology is being used to further pro-government narratives

The city has been struggling to accommodate 45,000 new arrivals. Mayor Eric Adams – who insists that there is no more room – is asking them to go to Canada

The Venezuelan leader is courting support from the pastors ahead of elections in 2023 or 2024 by providing funding for places of worship and handing out bonuses

As the Maduro regime mends relations in Latin America and across the world, most opposition parties are thinking about deserting the president of the National Assembly

Rafael Lacava, governor of Carabobo, published a montage of himself, Nicolás Maduro, Chávez and Diego Maradona in a parody of the ‘Avengers’ series

The Chavista president clearly stated his demands for making progress at ongoing talks with the opposition in Mexico