Venezuela
Project Sydicate / No Impunity for Insurrectionists
The uncanny similarity between Brazil’s failed insurrection and the attack on the US Capitol highlights the many parallels between Bolsonaro and Trump.
Blind Venezuelan boy converts World Cup sticker album into Braille
A blind 12-year-old Venezuelan soccer fan has found a way to participate in the craze of collecting World Cup soccer stickers, by adding Braille to them.
US military action in Venezuela 'possible': Pompeo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the administration of President Donald Trump is prepared to take military action to stem the crisis in Venezuela.
Guaido faces test with call for 'largest march' in Venezuela history
Opposition leader Juan Guaido faces a key test of support after calling for the "largest march" in Venezuela's history to try to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro, even as the military has so far resisted calls to help remove him.
Venezuela's Dutch disease syndrome
The political and economic situation of Venezuela has been dominating world media for quite some time now. What happened to this petro-state with the largest oil reserve in the world?
Venezuela buckles under massive power, communications outage
Venezuela’s worst power and communications outage deepens a sense of isolation and decay, endangering hospital patients, forcing schools and businesses to close and cutting people off from their families, friends and the outside world.
Maduro opponents boost military rhetoric in Venezuela crisis
Opposition leader Juan Guaido has called on the international community to consider “all options” to resolve Venezuela’s crisis, a dramatic escalation in rhetoric that echoes comments from the Trump administration hinting at potential US military involvement.
Venezuela Political Crisis / Maduro defies self-named 'president'
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declares himself interim president, winning the backing of Washington and many Latin American nations and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro, who has led the oil-rich nation since 2013, to break relations with the United States.
Venezuela’s Guaido declares himself president amid protests
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself interim president in a defiant speech before masses of anti-government demonstrators who took to the streets Wednesday to demand President Nicolas Maduro’s resignation.
Venezuela shock Uruguay, advance through Salomon Rondon goal
Salomon Rondon's first-half effort put Venezuela into the Copa America quarterfinals after a 1-0 win over Uruguay in Philadelphia.
Cuba will never rejoin OAS, says Castro
Cuban President Raul Castro says the country will not return to the Organization of American States (OAS) in a show of solidarity with Venezuela.
11 gunned down in Venezuela
Gunmen have killed 11 people, including three teenagers and a Colombian national, in Venezuela, officials say.
Sugar shortage hits Coke in Venezuela
A sugar shortage forces Coca-Cola to stop producing soft drinks in Venezuela amid an escalating food and energy shortage.
Venezuela leader threatens seizure of factories
The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, threatens the seizure of factories that have stopped production and the jailing of their owners.
Venezuela to ration electricity in power crisis
Recession-wracked Venezuela is to ration electricity in 10 of its most populous and industrialized states, including metropolitan Caracas, the socialist government says.
Four oil producing nations agree to freeze output
Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar and Venezuela have agreed to freeze their oil output at January levels if other producers follow suit.
3 dead in Venezuela after contracting Zika: President
Three people dies in Venezuela from complications linked to Zika, says President Nicolas Maduro.
2,100 pregnant Colombian women infected with Zika virus
More than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country's national health institute says, as the disease continues its spread across the Americas.
Venezuela opposition wins parliamentary majority
The opposition in Venezuela has won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, overturning nearly two decades of dominance by the Socialists of President Nicolas Maduro.
