Eight Brazilian senators who were trying to meet with jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez in Venezuela say that they had to flee for safety after their bus was attacked.
On Wednesday Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that he had reached an agreement with Russia's top oil producer Rosneft in which $14 billion would be invested in Venezuela's oil and gas production.
Venezuelans have been in a rush to unload their depreciating currency, and this has in turn led to a devastating drop in its value, leading the the troubled country closer to an outbreak of hyperinflation.
The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has just authorized the extradition of Leiver Padilla Mendoza, a man wanted in Venezuela for the murder of a Caracas politician named Robert Serra.
President Nicolas Maduro has raised Venezuela's minimum wage for the second time this year. He gave housing to a woman who threw a mango at him last week, and now President Nicolas Maduro has further ingratiated himself to the economically burdened people of his country by raising Venezuela's minimum wage for the second time this year.
Venezuela has announced that, in an effort to try to conserve energy, it will cut the working day for public sector workers to five-and-a-half hours. The cost saving measure is part of a nationwide electricity rationing plan.
A Venezuelan woman who had the nerve to throw a mango with a message at President Nicolas Maduro has just had her wish for a room granted by the socialist leader.
Antonio Ledezma, the incarcerated mayor of Venezuela's capital Caracas, was transferred from prison to a hospital where he will undergo emergency surgery for a groin hernia
President Barack Obama has met with the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro President Barack Obama met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during the Summit of Americas on Saturday.
The Venezuelan leader stated that he would round up ten million signatures to protest recent U.S. sanctions against his country and personally hand them to Obama at the Summit of the Americas in Panama which takes place April 10 and 11.
Maria Gabriela Chavez, the favorite daughter of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, has become her country’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.
Venezuelans have been getting in line to add their signatures to a manifesto railing against the Obama administration's recent decision to sanction seven Venezuelan officials over alleged human rights abuses that occurred during last year’s anti-government protests.But some Venezuelans say they are being coerced into signing.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has mometarily stepped aside from accusing the U.S. of trying to undermine his socialist country and readying his military in the event of a U.S.-based attack, is preparing to give President Barack Obama a gift.
At an emergency summit meeting on Tuesday, Latin American left-wing leaders urged the U.S. to repeal an executive order which declared Venezuela to be a threat to the national security of the US.
Faced with food shortages and an uncertain economy, Venezuela, as part a plan to initiate the rationing of food, will install 20,000 fingerprint scanners at supermarkets across the socialist country.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says he fears President Nicolas Maduro will cancel key legislative elections later this year because the country's government is facing a huge crisis right now, Yahoo! News reports according to AFP.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio announced that he is honored to be part of a long list of U.S diplomats and lawmakers who have been officially banned from traveling to Venezuela by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
