Venezuela

Sen. Marco Rubio's fierce criticism of the dictatorship in Venezuela may have led an influential politician there to put out a hit on the outspoken Florida lawmaker. Rubio, who has ...

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 ...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday called for Venezuela to respect freedom of expression, release political prisoners ...

Venezuela is experiencing critical shortages, prompting concerns that a humanitarian crisis will engulf this oil-rich South American country. ...

President Nicolas Maduro threatened Saturday to take over idle factories and jail their owners following a decree granting ...

It was once billed as a model of socialist fraternity: South America's first high-speed train, powered by Chinese ...

A meeting of oil-rich countries in Qatar that had been expected to boost crude prices by freezing production ...

Oil-producing countries met Sunday in Qatar to discuss a possible freeze of production to counter low global prices, ...

A court in Venezuela’s mineral-rich state of Bolívar has sentenced David Natera, the 74-year-old publisher of one of ...

Venezuela is facing an electricity shortage so severe that President Nicolás Maduro extended the national Easter holiday by ...

A broad coalition of anti-government parties in Venezuela announced a plan this month to oust President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations dismissed the possibility of cooperating with U.S. investigations into a billion-dollar bribery ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro admitted before a hostile legislature on Friday that the oil-rich nation is mired in ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has informed the General Assembly that 15 countries including oil producer Venezuela are in arrears ...

Much of Latin America has seen an unusually long period of relative political stability since the early 2000s. ...

2015 has been a dramatic year in elections around the world: old leaders were toppled, upstarts and novices ...

Forget the ceremonial gavel passing and group photos. Venezuela's new congress, now dominated by opponents of the socialist ...

Argentine President Mauricio Macri asked Venezuela's government on Monday to free prisoners being held for political reasons.

The year closes with a major setback for communism and the leftist São Paulo Forum in Latin America.

Venezuela's opposition won a key two-thirds majority in theNational Assembly in legislative voting, according to final results released ...

An alliance of center-left, centrist and right-wing opposition parties has scored a resounding victory in Venezuela's parliamentary elections—marking ...

Venezuela's opposition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide, stunning the ruling party and altering the ...

The socialist system built by Hugo Chavez faced its gravest electoral test Sunday as Venezuelans cast ballots in ...

The effects of 21st century socialism in Venezuela are horrifying.

We might have a new energy superpower to talk about. Guyana apparently controls vast amounts of offshore oil ...