Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has accused the United States of supporting coup attempts against his government, and the U.S. has fired back to dismiss the allegations.
President Nicolas Maduro announced to the Venezuelan people his government had thwarted a coup d'etat by some military officers to overthrow him. He claims the plotters had American backing.
Speaking to supporters in Caracas before meeting with Ernesto Samper, the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for a relationship with the United States based on diplomacy and demanded an end to what he sees as a U.S. backed plan to destabilize his government.
The U.S. State Department announced this week additional visa restrictions for human rights violators from Venezuela. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has since criticized the U.S. government's decision.
The United States has dismissed recent allegations by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that accuse U.S. Vice President Joe Biden of conspiring to overthrow his government as "patently false" and a ploy to distract attention away from Maduro's abuse of power.
One of Venezuela’s most well-known drugstore chains, Farmatodo, has come under government scrutiny. The company’s top executives have been imprisoned as the government blames them for the long lines and food shortages plaguing the nation.
The United States (U.S.) has turned down a prisoner swap offer by Venezuelan officials that would have seen the release of an opposition leader of President Nicolas Maduro.
On Monday, the U.S. Senate approved legislation to impose sanctions on the Venezuelan government, and President Barack Obama has signaled he would sign the legislation into law.
At least 35 inmates from a Venezuelan jail have died from a mass drug overdose, and 20 are in comas. Meanwhile, Venezuela's government is investigating the incident.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be formally charged on Dec. 3rd for her alleged involvement to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela is suffering one of the worst outbreaks of tropical diseases in decades, and there has been little response from public health authorities, two non-governmental groups reported Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Monday that he would raise the country's minimum wage by 15 percent. The increase will start in December to protect workers from inflation of more than 60 percent.
Following a meeting between the Spanish prime minister and the wife of imprisoned opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, Maduro has called into question Spain's relationship with Venezuela.
Serra and his partner Maria Herrera were found dead on Wednesday in their Caracas home after being stabbed and possibly tortured. Government officials have launched an investigation into their murders.
Venezuela fights Clorox over abandoning two facilities The Clorox Company announced it will abandon two of its factories in Venezuela because price controls in the country are too strict, but the country's president wants to take over the abandoned buildings.
The trial of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez continues in the Venezuelan capital, despite the fact that the presiding judge has thrown out most of Lopez's defense evidence.
