Venezuela

Venezuela foils military action against Maduro

Aug 06, 2017 12:23

Authorities in the ruling Socialist Party of Venezuela have announced that an anti-government military action has been suppressed near the central city of Valencia.
Venezuela’s top prosecutor’s office under siege

Aug 05, 2017 09:56

The office of Venezuela’s top prosecutor has come under siege by troops as a political crisis over the establishment of a new constitutional assembly deepens in the South American country.
Maduro says country facing armed insurgency, lambastes prosecutor's office

Aug 05, 2017 08:39

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says his country is facing an “armed insurgency,” also criticizing the prosecutor’s office for failure to control the opposition-led violent protests across the Latin American country.
Venezuelan legislative super-body holds 1st session amid condemnations, protests

Aug 04, 2017 23:45

Venezuela's all-powerful Constituent Assembly, packed with allies of beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro, has held its first session less than a week after a disputed vote, in defiance of widespread condemnation from home and abroad over allegations that the super-body could undermine democratic freedoms.
Maduro dismisses vote rigging charge, delays launch of new Assembly

Aug 03, 2017 03:50

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected an allegation that the recent vote on the powerful National Assembly was rigged, calling the claim a “reaction by the international enemy.”
Venezuelans vote for constitutional super-body, opposition boycotts election

Jul 30, 2017 10:08

People in Venezuela are casting their ballot in a controversial election to elect a 545-seat Constituent Assembly, which will be capable of rewriting the country’s constitution and dissolving the current opposition-led legislature, as the South American nation has been the scene of months of anti-government protests, often with violent clashes with police, over a persistent economic crisis.
Venezuela bans protests, opposition remains defiant ahead of vote

Jul 28, 2017 09:42

Venezuela’s government has banned street protests as the opposition has called for massive rallies ahead of a vote this weekend to elect a congress to rewrite the constitution.
Maduro censures new US sanctions on Venezuela as ‘illegal’

Jul 27, 2017 03:48

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has denounced as “illegal” the new economic sanctions leveled by the United States against Venezuelan officials over a controversial government plan for rewriting the constitution.
Two-day strike called by opposition due to start shortly in Venezuela

Jul 26, 2017 08:27

A two-day strike is due to begin shortly in Venezuela in an attempt by the opposition to increase pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to abandon an upcoming vote for a super-congress with powers to rewrite the constitution.
Maduro accuses CIA of plotting with neighbors against Venezuela

Jul 25, 2017 07:34

The Venezuelan president says Mexico and Colombia are working hand in glove with the US spy agency CIA in an American “plot” to overthrow the legitimate government in Caracas.