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 U.S. government had in custody one of Maduro’s most notorious financial operators, while the Venezuelan strongman had in his jail the person who bribed a number of top military officers and their civilian accomplices
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
With the presidential elections coming up on July 28, opinion is divided on what is the best way to take on Nicolás Maduro at the polls
In 2023, 100,000 kilos of cocaine were seized in Spain. According to police sources, this was more than double what was confiscated the previous year. The reasons for the drug avalanche are on the other side of the Atlantic
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 criminal organization accused of murdering former soldier Ronald Ojeda was first detected in the South American country three years ago
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
Venezuelan, Peruvian, Haitian, Chinese, and Afghan families endure hunger, disease, and violence while they raise money to cross the rainforest and reach Panama, on the only land route that leads from South America to the United States
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
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and other populist rulers of this century sell an image of infallibility and invulnerability that is typically found in comic books
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
The accident took place in the Angostura municipality on Tuesday, when a wall collapsed at a mine known as Bulla Loca, which can only be reached by an hours-long boat ride
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
The announcement came on the heels of the detention of human rights attorney Rocio San Miguel, which set off a wave of criticism inside and outside 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’
