Nicolás Maduro

Colombia has demanded an apology and will expel diplomats after the Argentine president called Gustavo Petro a ‘terrorist murderer’ during an interview with CNN

María Corina Machado’s close circle accuses Manuel Rosales of betrayal after he registered by surprise at the last minute. The governor of Zulia said he is prepared to hand the candidacy to someone who can ‘overcome the government’s obstacles’

The EU, the United States and even leftist governments from Brazil and Colombia reacted negatively to difficulties placed in the way of the opposition to register candidates for the July 28 election

The main opposition group was unable to put forward her name due to alleged computer glitches on the electoral authority’s website. A candidate running with a different party, Enrique Márquez, did manage to register at the last minute

After arduous negotiations and much secrecy, the opposition chooses an activist of merit, civic commitment and free of controversy to replace María Corina Machado

The opposition has been unanimously in favor of the winner of the presidential primaries, but faced with her disqualification, some sectors are betting on a plan B

Maria Corina Machado’s campaign manager and the eight other staffers were accused of being part of violent anti-government conspiracies

The president, whose leadership cast many doubts after Chávez named him successor, has a clear path to cling onto power for another six years thanks to a Chavista-controlled framework

The enforcer of the most controversial judicial decisions against activists and political opponents, he has traversed a bumpy path to impose the revolutionary narrative amidst the Venezuelan crisis

‘Argentina won’t be extorted by friends of terrorism,’ said a presidential spokesperson

The primary opposition leader isn’t standing down, despite officials having tossed out the possibility of her facing off with Nicolás Maduro in July

The election plans make no mention of the participation of candidates banned by the government from running for office, including President Nicolás Maduro’s strongest adversary this year, Maria Corina Machado

The authorities have covered a piece of ice smaller than a soccer field with a geotextile blanket, in an operation that has raised criticism from scientists and environmentalists

The Venezuelan president held a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart at the CELAC summit, in which he invited Brazil to participate as an observer in the upcoming elections

The decision will reopen the investigation into President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan security forces during a crackdown on anti-government protests in 2017

The ruling Maduro government has offered up 27 potential dates for voting day, while the body that is actually in charge of announcing the elections has remained silent. Democratic guarantees have not yet been established between the government and the opposition

The film ‘Simón’ — which addresses the 2017 protests against the Maduro government in an unprecedented way — is one of many new productions by Venezuelan directors in the diaspora, whose work is in stark contrast to the pro-Chavista social realism of the past

The Chilean government has filed a complaint regarding the case of Ronald Ojeda Moreno, who was taken from his apartment in Santiago at dawn

Ronald Leandro Ojeda Moreno was taken from his apartment by four individuals posing as police officers. Authorities are not ruling out any hypothesis, including a Venezuelan counterintelligence operation

Venezuela’s foreign minister said both countries ‘are victims on the international stage of the illegal, irrational, illegitimate application of unilateral coercive measures,’ referring to economic sanctions

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