In a symbolic gesture that they intend to move away from the socialist policies that have typified Venezuela for the last 17 years, the incoming opposition party removed portraits of former President Hugo Chavez as well as Liberator of the Spanish Americas Simon Bolivar.
The new opposition speaker of the Venezuela’s National Assembly, Henry Ramos Allup, announce on Dec. 5 that his party would soon take measures to force Socialist President Nicolas Maduro out of office.
Killings have increased by close to 70 percent in El Salvador last year, authorities said Monday. Killings increased by close to 70 percent in El Salvador last year, authorities said Monday.
Just after being seated as the newest legislative leader in Venezuela, Henry Ramos Allup already promises drastic changes will occur in the country as it has been well-known that Ramos Allup belongs to the opposition group against President Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela installed its latest democratically elected legislators into its National Assembly on Tuesday, but U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez still has concerns about Venezuela's leadership.
The opposition to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 5 took control of the country's National Assembly, presumably initiating a period of heightened confrontation between the embattled socialist leader and those who have long fought the policies of Maduro and his late predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
Venezuela's new National Assembly, in which the opposition against President Nicolás Maduro holds a majority for the first time, will be headed by Henry Ramos, the secretary general of the Democratic Action party. But, the new leader was prevented from entering the building.
Venezuela's state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is temporarily stopping the export of natural gas to its neighbor Colombia due to "climate factors", as confirmed by the Colombian Mines and Energy Ministry on Friday, Jan. 1, according to a report from Reuters.
The Venezuelan high court suspended the inauguration of four of the lawmakers recently declared winners in the Dec. 6 legislative elections on Dec. 30, 2015.
Less than a month after his party lost control of Venezuela's National Assembly, Socialist President Nicolas Maduro, is investigated the Dec. 6 election which put the opposition coalition party in two-thirds of the house seats.
Before 2016 enters, a non-governmental group has just released Venezuela's murder rate in 2015, showing a steep climb in the number of homicides in the country. Reports claim that Venezuela is one of the places worldwide with the most number of violent attacks.
The governments in Caracas and Bogotá on Dec. 29 offered contradictory accounts of what led to the crash of a Venezuelan military helicopter that injured the pilot and co-pilot.
Since taking office on Dec. 10, Mauricio Macri has demonstrated his desire to move his country away from the socialist policies that have typified it during the past 12 years, which together have become known as “Kirchnerism.”
Addressing the Venezuelan military on Saturday, President Nicolas Maduro warned of a large-scale crisis and an impending showdown due to the recent victory at the polls of the right-leaning opposition coalition.
The Venezuelan opposition coalition claims to have won at least 112 seats in the country's National Assembly, which would give forces opposing President Nicolás Maduro ample powers to challenge his government.
A coalition of opposition parties on Sunday triumphed in Venezuela's parliamentary election and won more than twice the number of National Assembly seats as embattled President Nicolás Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
No credible international observers will be present to monitor Venezuela's Dec. 6 legislative elections, and observers worry about an increasingly volatile situation in the oil-rich South American nation while a top U.S. official predicted that Venezuelans are at a "dramatic crossroads."
Fears that Venezuela's Dec. 6 legislative elections may lead to violence came to fruition on Sunday, weeks before the vote, as the country's opposition claimed that shots were fired at a candidate's campaign caravan in a poor neighborhood of Caracas.
The National Security Agency (NSA) accidentally obtained the communications of top officials of Venezuela's state-owned oil company within the massive cache produced by its bulk collection of data, an internal memo published by whistleblower Edward Snowden suggests.
