Opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, who won about 67 percent of the votes in July compared to 30 percent for Maduro, mounted a successful international tour prior to the inauguration, with stops ...

Politics Venezuela’s Maduro and opposition are locked in standoff as both claim victory in presidential vote On the streets of Caracas, a mix of anger, tears and loud pot banging greeted the ...

Maduro and opposition claim victory in Venezuela presidential election U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed "serious concerns" that the result did not reflect the ... Maduro, 61, was ...

A priest blesses Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado during a rally against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday ...

P resident Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez have both claimed victory in Venezuela’s presidential election as the United States and others cast doubt on the official results.

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas as Maduro operatives had rifles pointed at him and his ...

Last Thursday, members of the press were invited to a Gilded Age mansion in Manhattan for a presentation titled “A ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Venezuelan opposition leaders Friday and expressed strong support for their cause amid South American dictator Nicolas Maduro’s latest crackdown on ...

Opposition leaders have argued the detention of politician Juan Pablo Guanipa and others is meant to stifle dissent.

Venezuela’s National Assembly has voted to declare United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk persona non grata after he publicly criticised the government’s human rights violations ...

A former Venezuelan spymaster pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges — including narco-terrorism -- a week before his ...

Hugo Carvajal, a former top official in Venezuela's authoritarian government, pleaded guilty to narco terrorism, the Department of Justice announced ...