Venezuela

The United Nations refugee agency has said that over 1.6 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015.

The United States issued a new round of sanctions against Venezuela on Sept. 25, hours before President Donald ...

The United States on Sept. 5 declared Nicaragua's civil unrest a threat to the region's security, saying government ...

Hundreds of pensioners lined up outside banks and even blocked main roads in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas ...

SAO PAULO—Brazilian President Michel Temer announced Aug. 28 that he'll deploy the military to restore order in a ...

The undeniable crisis in Venezuela and the largest mass exodus in Latin-American history has led socialists to contend ...

GENEVA/CARACAS—The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building toward a "crisis moment" comparable to events involving refugees in ...

QUITO—Ecuador's government on Aug. 21 said it wanted to host a regional summit to discuss a worsening exodus ...

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but a pen doesn't do much good in a knife ...

Pull Quotes: Dozens of desperate Venezuelans ignored the new requirement and simply forced their way into Ecuador without ...

BRASILIA—Brazil's government has not ruled out closing its border with Venezuela at Pacaraima, in Roraima state, but sees ...

CARACAS/VALENCIA, Venezuela—Venezuela on Aug. 20 slashed five zeros from prices as part of a broad economic plan that ...

PUNTO FIJO/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela—After Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's 60-fold increase to the minimum wage, storeowners on Aug. 18 ...

QUITO/LIMA—Venezuelans entering Ecuador and Peru will soon be required to show their passports, rather than national identity cards, ...

NEW YORK/CARACAS—Venezuela faces payments of $1.1 billion in interest and principal on two bonds maturing on Aug. 15, ...

CARACAS—At one of Caracas' biggest public hospitals, most bathrooms are closed. Patients fill jugs from a tiny tap ...

WASHINGTON/CARACAS–American missionary Josh Holt, held by Venezuela without trial on weapons charges since 2016, returned home with his ...

CARACAS, Venezuela—As Venezuela's socialist leader Nicolas Maduro announced a new six-year term on Sunday, his main rivals and ...

Speaking at the Council of Americas meeting at the White House on Wednesday, May 9, Vice President Mike ...

Thousands of Venezuelans flee their country each day, amid a deepening political and economic crisis. Growing hunger and ...

VALENCIA, Venezuela—Rioting and a fire in the cells of a Venezuelan police station in the central city of ...

BOGOTA–Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday said the United States is heartbroken by the economic and social ...

WASHINGTON–Two U.S. senators called on the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday to investigate allegations of drug trafficking ...

Sen. Marco Rubio's fierce criticism of the dictatorship in Venezuela may have led an influential politician there to ...

The United States froze the personal assets of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on July 31 in response to ...

Two nephews of Venezuela's powerful first lady confessed to trying to smuggle 800 kilograms (1,763 pounds) of cocaine ...

Caravans of Venezuelan families drove for hours Sunday on bandit-plagued highways to a checkpoint on the Colombian border ...