Venezuela

Politics

Venezuelan opposition votes to maintain Juan Guaido as bloc leader

Guaido remains confident in his ability to lead – citing the strong international support he continues to enjoy

Human Rights

Maduro accused of trafficking Venezuelan women "just like in Cuba"

Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges said the situation requires an urgent policy change in Venezuela.

Politics

Maduro celebrates illusory economic growth as annual inflation hovers at around 2,000 percent

While the Central Bank of Venezuela reported November’s inflation rate at 8.4 percent, that translates into a nearly 2,000 percent annual inflation rate

Politics

Opposition leader says Venezuelan’s will see difficult times this Christmas

Juan Guaido said shopping and cooking a meal “entails many sacrifices” in Venezuela

Human Rights

Seventy percent of Venezuelan prisoners suffer from severe malnutrition

Malnutrition among Venezuelan prisoners is due to food shortages and lack of hygiene and sanitation measures

Politics

Mass blackouts leave Venezuelans in the dark

The Maduro regime was quick to denounce the outages as an “attack to the national electric system”

Human Rights

"The doll box:" The Venezuelan dictatorship's house of torture

Terrorism

US Navy seized missiles, petroleum products from Iranian military headed for Venezuela and Yemen

The barrels of Iranian petroleum products were found aboard four foreign-flagged tankers headed to Venezuela

Crime

Venezuelan regime refuses to hand over power in Barinas

Fraud continues in the state of Barinas, the birthplace of the late Hugo Chávez, which the regime promised to protect

Politics

Venezuelan interim foreign minister resigns, signaling crumbling opposition

"The (interim) government makes sense as an instrument to get out of the dictatorship. But at this moment ... the interim government has been damaged"