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The United States is reimposing sanctions on Venezuela’s vital oil sector over what it says is the government’s failure to adhere to democratic principles ahead of elections in July. Maduro, the successor of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, is seeking a third six-year term after 11 years in...

Venezuela’s main opposition coalition said it has been blocked from registering its candidate to challenge President Nicolas Maduro in the upcoming elections on July 28. In a video statement on March 26, the Plataforma Unitaria Democratica explained it had been unable to formally register its...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on March 22 named Corina Yoris as her successor to take on President Nicolas Maduro in the country's presidential election in July, following the arrest of two of Machado's close aides. With Venezuela's opposition under pressure to pick a candidate to...

Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said on March 20 that two people close to opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado had been arrested, prompting Machado to call the charges leveled at her team "completely false." The arrests are set to complicate an already-confused scenario ahead of the July...

A vote by the PSUV party concluded that Maduro would be its presidential candidate, said Diosdado Cabello, considered the number two in the ruling movement which was founded by the late Hugo Chavez and has been in power for 25 years. Maduro, 61, has not made any announcement himself, but has been...

Venezuela has ordered the local office of the United Nations human rights body to suspend operations and given its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of promoting opposition to the South American country. The move came two days after the UN agency expressed “deep concern” over the detention of...

Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal has upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, upending the opposition’s plans for elections planned for later this year. Machado, a former lawmaker, won the opposition’s independently run presidential primary...

Venezuela's attorney general on January 22 said 14 arrest warrants were issued against civilians and former military personnel for allegedly conspiring against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. On January 15, Maduro told legislators who back the government that conspiracies against him and...

Twenty-four Venezuelans have been freed as part of this week's prisoner exchange deal with the United States, Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday. The United States announced on Wednesday that President Joe Biden had granted clemency to Colombian...

Venezuela on Tuesday objected to a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses that could constitute crimes against humanity by Venezuelan officials. In a June ruling, the ICC said that Venezuela's own investigations were not enough...