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."
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.
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.
A Venezuelan prosecutor who helped convict Leopoldo López is seeking asylum in the United States and is calling the opposition leader's trial a "sham" orchestrated by the administration of embattled President Nicolás Maduro.
Brazil, South America's most populous country and arguably among one of the continent's strongest democracies, will not observe upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela after the government of embattled President Nicolás Maduro vetoed Brasilia's choice to head its delegation.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday called on prosecutors to go after Lorenzo Mendoza, the country's wealthiest businessman, who had suggested that Venezuela's ailing economy might require an international bailout.
Manuel Rosales, a 62-year old Venezuelan opposition politician who had spent six years outside of the socialist country, has been arrested upon his return.
The U.S. has strongly denied recent reports that it planned to topple the Bolivian government. The U. S. has strongly denied recent reports that it planned to topple the Bolivian government.
President Barack Obama is deliberately delaying his consent for Venezuela's proposed new ambassador in Washington, the country's embattled leader Nicolás Maduro complained on Sunday.
Venezuela is using tactics of "intimidation and aggression" in its border dispute with neighboring Guyana, the president of the small South American country charged on Tuesday in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
A month after the Venezuelan government closed key border crossing areas to neighboring Colombia, the socialist nation has announced that Colombians who were deported during the initial crackdown will be allowed to return.
In the midst of the crisis along its western border with Colombia, Venezuela has moved troops to an eastern area near the contested Essequibo region, long administered by Guyana, Guyanese President David Granger said on Tuesday.
Colombian President Juan Manual Santos traveled to Ecuador on Monday to meet with Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro in an attempt to ease tension between their two countries.
The leaders of Venezuela and Colombia finally to set a date for a bilateral meeting on their nation's border crisis, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced.
More than 4 in 10 Colombians fear that their country's border crisis with Venezuela may eventually lead to a war between the two South American neighbors.
