Leopoldo Lopez, the jailed Venezuelan opposition leader who is known as much for his photogenic charisma as his right wing politics, has just has announced his plans to go on a hunger strike via video.
Despite being born with beauty and brains, a former Miss Venezuela pageant winner died at the age of 68 after spending the last 15 years of her life in homelessness.
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.
A small plane that had apparently taken off from Venezuela and carried more than a ton of cocaine on Wednesday crashed off the coast of Colombia. The aircraft had been pursued by the Colombian military.
Diosdado Cabello, widely considered the second most powerful man in embattled President Nicolás Maduro's administration, on Tuesday emphatically denied media reports that he and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials were involved in the international drug trade.
Detroit Tigers infielder Miguel Cabrera recently hit his 400th career home run. That home run was not only a career milestone, but it is the most ever by a Venezuelan-born player in MLB history. How many home runs will Cabrera finish with?
The president of Venezuela's National Assembly - widely considered embattled President Nicolás Maduro's most powerful internal adversary - is asking courts to bar news executives from leaving the country while he is suing them for alleged defamation.
The socialist country is about to be making more news locally though as, with an approximately 25,000 violent deaths estimated for 2014 and 90 violent deaths reported in Caracas in the first week of 2015,
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.
Venezuela has been one of the leading drivers among international baseball talent over the years, but domestic issues could halt their scouting program. Latin Post takes a look at the status of Venezuelan baseball.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro plans to to nationalize food distribution amid his country's record shortages of basic goods, runaway inflation and escalating economic instability.
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.
The Venezuelan government is set to implement a medicine-rationing system it hopes will ease shortages that have left many patients unable to treat ailments from hemorrhoids to cancer.
Fired Univision host Rodner Figueroa was proud to post on Instagram that he is working once again. Figueroa is now working for the I Love Venezuela Foundation.
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.
Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout are widely considered the two best players in Major League Baseball today. Both are elite players, but who do you think is better? Feel free to vote in our fan poll.
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
Diosdado Cabello, the head of Venezuela's congress, announced on Tuesday that he is suing several news outlets for publishing reports that tie him to the drug trade.
