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.
Venezuela's second most powerful man has little faith in the U.S. justice system's guarantees of due process, and on Monday he referred to the arrests of two relatives of President Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores as a "kidnapping."
Strand Releasing has obtained U.S. rights to the Venice Golden Lion winner "Desde Alla." Strand Releasing has obtained U. S. rights to the Venice Golden Lion winner "Desde Alla.
President Nicolás Maduro's stepson and wife's nephew are facing charges in New York, but if a group of Venezuelan opposition figures has their way, the embattled president himself may soon have to stand trial for "crimes against humanity."
U.S. agents on Tuesday arrested two members of the immediate family of powerful Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores in a move that could further taint Washington's strained relationship with the South American country and with Flores' husband, embattled President Nicolás Maduro.
The series was banned from Venezuela, and people have mixed feelings. The National Commission of Telecommunications in Venezuela (Conatel) has banned "La Reina del Sur" three days before the series' premiere, leaving the show's star Kate del Castillo without words.
Venezuela on Sunday accused the United States of having violated its sovereign airspace, saying that a U.S. Coast Guard intelligence that departed from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao on Friday overflew its territory later that day.
The new FIFA world rankings have been released. Germany is no longer the No. 1 ranked team in the world, and four South American teams rank in the top 10.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday put his trademark moustache on the line as he promised to deliver the millionth public housing unit before the end of the year.
The former Venezuelan prosecutor who helped convict Leopoldo López on what he later said were "sham" charges is calling on the Obama administration to sanction other officials involved in the trial that ended in a prison sentence of almost 14 years for the opposition leader.
