A former Venezuelan air force fighter pilot jailed in his home country in February for his ties to a prominent human rights attorney is an employee of U.S. oil firm Chevron, The Associated Press has learned. The arrest, combined with other recent repressive acts by Nicolás Maduro’s government, is straining efforts by the Biden administration […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday became his party’s official nominee for July’s highly anticipated presidential election, which would allow him to stroll into a third consecutive term with no real competition on the horizon. Not unusual to Venezuela, the election has been plagued with controversy since Maduro‘s main opponent, María […]
The homicide rate in Venezuela has dropped like a rock. The numbers are shocking, actually, in how high they remain and how much they have fallen. More than a 25% drop in about a year, according to the Venezuela Violence Observatory. Suicides are up, though, which isn’t such good news. Venezuela has its lowest homicide […]
Of the nearly nine million illegal migrants that Joe Biden has allowed into the United States since taking office, a significant percentage of them came here from Venezuela. There were 50.000 of them just in the month of September, setting a record that still stands today. The vast majority of them were simply allowed to […]
CARACAS, Venezuela — Human rights organizations in Venezuela on Wednesday demanded the release of a prominent attorney and activist whose detention last week has heightened concerns over the government’s use of repression against real and perceived adversaries. The representatives of several rights groups expressed concern over Rocío San Miguel’s well-being and condemned her inability to […]
In October, under the approving eye of the Biden administration, Venezuela’s cutthroat government inked an agreement with the country’s opposition parties. Called the Barbados Agreement, it was a pledge to work toward a free presidential election. What’s not to like, right? The government of Nicolás Maduro trumpeted the agreement […]
The U.S. government is suspending relief to Venezuela’s oil and gas sector in response to President Nicolas Maduro’s crackdown on political freedoms, including barring opposition candidates from competing in this year’s presidential election. The State Department announced the sanctions Tuesday after Venezuelan officials arrested members of the South American country’s democratic opposition. The department said […]
MEXICO CITY — Mexico and Venezuela announced Saturday that they have restarted repatriation flights of Venezuelans migrants in Mexico, the latest move by countries in the region to take on a flood of people traveling north to the United States. The move comes as authorities say at least 10,000 migrants a day have been arriving […]
MEXICO CITY — Venezuela said Saturday it will continue to deploy nearly 6,000 troops until a British military vessel sent to neighboring Guyana leaves the waters off the coast of the two South American nations. In a video posted to X, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino appeared surrounded by military officers in front of a […]
BOGOTA, Colombia — President Nicolás Maduro ordered Venezuela’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom sent a warship toward Guyana’s territorial waters as the South American neighbors dispute a large border region. In a nationally televised address on Thursday, Maduro said that 6,000 Venezuelan troops, including air and […]
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