Edmundo González Urrutia

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

The opposition leader has accepted the offer from the Spanish government, in which former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero played a key role

The Chavista leader took advantage of his television program to announce a change in the festive calendar. ‘It is September and it already smells like Christmas’

The Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses the presidential candidate of five crimes related to the publication of the voting records, with which the opposition claims electoral fraud in Nicolás Maduro’s victory

The opposition candidate has been summoned to appear before the Prosecutor’s Office and faces an arrest warrant if he does not comply. The government accuses him of conspiracy for having published the voting records with which he claims victory over Nicolás Maduro

The Venezuelan president marked a month since the National Electoral Council proclaimed him the winner of the disputed election with fresh attacks against opposition leaders

Almost all of the judges of the TSJ, which validated the president’s controversial victory, have been politically affiliated with Chavismo

The court’s ruling was anticipated by the opposition, with presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia warning that the TSJ could not assume the functions of the National Electoral Council

The presidential candidate has warned that the audit of the tally sheets being done by the TSJ, which is controlled by the ruling party, only aims to ‘validate electoral fraud’

Despite the intensifying political crisis in the country, both Maduro’s ruling party and the opposition have dismissed the solutions put forward to date