Nicolás Maduro

Blanco assures that without Machado’s participation, there will be no free elections in Venezuela

The Venezuelan government has given the 13 members of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights 72 hours to leave the country

Attorney General Tarek William Saab launched an attack against human rights organizations: ‘They are lying, and at the same time they are committing a crime by telling these lies’

The Maduro government detains activists on charges of terrorism or treason, but ordinary citizens are also arrested under pretexts such as recording businessman Alex Saab while he was on vacation

The National Electoral Council has not announced dates yet, but the government is moving toward elections without oppposition political alliance Plataforma Unitaria (Unitary Platform)

The U.S. is pledging to help Guyana buy new aircraft, helicopters, a fleet of military drones and, for the first time, radar technology

The operation, carried out during Donald Trump’s administration, skirted international law and targeted dozens of people, including the Venezuelan president himself, according to The Associated Press

Caracas views Washington’s decision as an attack on its sovereignty and maintains its veto on opposition candidate María Corina Machado

The U.S. presses President Maduro to let all opponents run for office and to release more political prisoners

The Treasury Department gave companies doing business with Venezuela’s state-owned mining company until Feb. 13 to wind down operations

María Corina Machado won a presidential primary held in October by the faction of the opposition backed by the U.S. She secured more than 90% of the vote

The Chavista regime denounces the existence of a plan to assassinate the president and casts doubts about plans for elections in 2024

The negotiations between the Maduro administration and the opposition are on hold. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has continued to refrain from ruling on the participation of the candidate who is most critical of the president

Two DEA agents run names in a confidential database that tracks federal investigations of interest to his new employers, including the timing of the exact date when the grand jury was to indict businessman Alex Saab

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

A law discussed in the National Assembly could render independent civil associations in the country ineffective

A Defense official said the U.S. would help Guyana create a more organized and better equipped military in coming months

The rate is still the highest in the world, but it has sharply declined from the 305% recorded in 2022. Experts believe it is on a downward trend

Chavismo could be considering other candidates for the election due to the Venezuelan president’s low popularity

It is the latest in mounting tensions between Venezuela and the former British colony

The HMS Trent’s visit led Venezuela to begin military exercises a day earlier in the eastern Caribbean near its border with Guyana as the Venezuelan government presses its claim to a huge swath of its smaller neighbor

Venezuela moves troops in the area even as the neighboring country denies ‘plans for offensive action’

The Prosecutor’s Office has reopened the case into the singer’s death, which had been shelved eight years ago as a homicide-suicide. It released a video in which his former manager confesses to the murder and staging the crime scene with the help of intelligence service officials

The opposition believes that Maduro is running out of excuses not to face María Corina Machado at the ballot box in 2024