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COMMENTARY The Biden Administration has decided to re-impose U.S. oil sanctions on Venezuela — but either way, it looks like the dictatorship will have its way for now.
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The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the OPEC nation.
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The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, citing analysis of the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, reports that some 326,000 migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have arrived at airports in Florida over the past year
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Venezuela's president ordered the closure of his country's embassy in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government faces a deadline this week — to commit to holding free and fair elections or face renewed U.S. oil sanctions.
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More than half of the estimated 7.7 million Venezuelans who have left their homeland during the complex crisis that has marked Nicolás Maduro’s 11-year presidency are estimated to be registered to vote in Venezuela. But government figures show only about 107,000 people are registered to vote outside the South American country
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The attorney general says Tareck El Aissami will make his first court appearance Tuesday on charges that include treason, money laundering and criminal association.
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Criminologists in Venezuela say the country's decline in crimes is because of the country’s poor economy, mass migration and the government's extrajudicial killings, not the government emptying prisons.
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COMMENTARY If we keep the sanctions screws on Cuba — or soften them — shouldn't we do the same for Venezuela? It's not that simple — for Biden or the rest of us.
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Miami-based YouTube influencer Oscar Alejandro Perez made a joke that got him arrested in Venezuela — a reminder, say expats, of the "roulette" risks of going there.
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The main Venezuelan opposition coalition has said that electoral authorities didn’t let it register its candidate for the presidential election as the deadline ended, in what it called the latest violation to the citizens’ right to vote for a change in the South American country.
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A former Venezuelan political prisoner got the idea to create a virtual reality tour from the Anne Frank museum.