Edmundo González Urrutia

The Venezuelan leader responds defiantly to the request for international action against him made by former Colombian presidents Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque

Argentina said the Chavista leader clings to his position ‘by imposing himself through fear, aggression, murder and prison.’ Other large countries, on the political left and right, also refused to recognize him as a legitimate leader

Opposition candidate Edmundo González, who had promised to return to the country and be the one to be sworn in as president, remains in Dominican Republic

Nicolás Maduro’s government launches a fresh wave of arrests against opponents, activists and foreign citizens while the opposition says that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, will be sworn in on Friday

A reconstruction of the last six months of turmoil in Venezuela following the July elections, highlighting the opposition’s accusations of fraud, the exile of González Urrutia, the presentation of the paper tallies, the repression and persecution of Chavismo, and the growing tension leading up to the inauguration on January 10

President Nicolás Maduro has practically sealed off the capital against Edmundo González’s intention to take office on Friday as the next president of Venezuela

Venezuela’s ruling party makes a show of force and warns that anyone attempting an insurrection or an invasion to prevent the president from being sworn in ‘will pay dearly’

As the president-elect prepares to take office on January 20 he faces several challenges, from his stance on Venezuela to his relationship with Sheinbaum, while Milei stands out as his strongest ally in the region

The more than probable return of Nicolás Maduro to the presidency does not end the hopes of Edmundo González and María Corina Machado of being able to impose the result of the elections

Six collaborators of María Corina Machado have spent nearly nine months in the diplomatic residence, where they depend on generators after the power was cut

Andrés Villavicencio, an electoral observer for the opposition, went viral for publicly announcing the results of the presidential elections in his town of Falcón. Now, he’s being persecuted by the Venezuelan government

The measure adds to another 225 conditional releases made last month in the middle of a legitimacy crisis for the Chavista regime

The Venezuelan president’s message comes at a time of uncertainty about what kind of relationship the Chavista government can expect with the incoming US administration of Donald Trump

The US and the María Corina Machado-led opposition are convinced that Edmundo González will take over from Nicolás Maduro on January 10, despite the threats of imprisonment

Joe Biden’s administration is trying to increase pressure on the Chavista regime with less than two months before Donald Trump returns to the White House

Venezuela’s opposition has called for a protest for December 1, while Nicolás Maduro has warned his opponents not to ‘underestimate the strength’ of his regime

‘Democracy demands respect for the will of the voters,’ said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. ‘This gesture honors the desire for change of our people,’ replied the exiled former diplomat

‘They are desperate to find out where I am, but obviously I am protecting myself,’ said the opposition leader

‘Due to planetary interaction, the existence of an autocracy in one country constitutes a problem for all the others,’ the opposition presidential candidate warned

The president, who decreed an early start to the holiday season this year, has appeared in public singing songs and eating traditional sweets. But Venezuelans would rather celebrate Halloween first

The young people, aged between 14 and 17 and who have just been visited by their parents, face charges of terrorism in proceedings in which they have not been afforded the right to a private defense

The Venezuelan opposition candidate, in response to accusations that Spain maneuvered to benefit Chavismo by facilitating his exile, clarified that Spanish diplomacy did not exert ‘any kind of pressure’

Venezuela’s opposition leader is convinced that President Nicolás Maduro tried to weaken the opposition by forcing the candidate who most likely won the election into exile, but she believes he has not succeeded

The Maduro government has survived precarious economic situations in the past and seems capable of withstanding Washington’s new measures and being cut off from the international community

Although there is almost absolute consensus about the Venezuelan president’s defeat at the polls, the opposition candidate’s departure to Spain nevertheless represents a blow

The opposition candidate and presumed winner of the presidential elections thanked the Spanish government for taking him in