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Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks at a citizens' assembly to ask for the release of the opposition figure Freddy Guevara, a month of his arrest in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday Aug. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) MEXICO CITY (AP) — Representatives of President Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition on…

Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, stated the country could offer cryptocurrency-based loans to the agricultural sector, in addition to the traditional loans in several fiat currencies. He also stated that Venezuela has worked with petro and other cryptocurrencies for three years, pioneering the use of this kind of asset in…

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition activist and former mayor Emilio Grateron has taken refuge in the Chilean diplomatic residence in Caracas, Chilean and Venezuelan authorities said, amid a wave of arrests of political adversaries of President Nicolas Maduro. Security forces this week arrested opposition leader Freddy Guevara as well as…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrives for a special session of the National Constituent Assembly to present his annual state of the nation in Caracas, Venezuela, January 14, 2019. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) Representatives of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist political organization in the United States, met with Venezuelan…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrives for a special session of the National Constituent Assembly to present his annual state of the nation in Caracas, Venezuela, January 14, 2019. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) Representatives of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist political organization in the United States, met with Venezuelan…

The heavy sanctions the United States has imposed on Venezuela have had little success at turning the government of President Nicolás Maduro back from its increasingly authoritarian ways. But where the sanctions have had an impact is in deepening the country’s public health crisis, particularly the coronavirus pandemic. Or so…

The heavy sanctions the United States has imposed on Venezuela have had little success at turning the government of President Nicolás Maduro back from its increasingly authoritarian ways. But where the sanctions have had an impact is in deepening the country’s public health crisis, particularly the coronavirus pandemic. Or so…

Cars parked in line to refill gasoline in San Antonio, near Caracas, Venezuela, September 9, 2020. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) How Maduro’s regime is hanging on, two years after an uprising against it — and what Biden should do about it. Two years ago, on April 30, 2019, the Venezuelan people took…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on Tuesday that Washington would work with partners in the region to maintain pressure on the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for a peaceful return to democracy. In pre-recorded remarks to a conference on Latin America, Blinken also said…

Before dawn on April 30, 2019, Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo López — Venezuela’s U.S.-backed interim president and, until that morning, the country's most prominent political prisoner — stood together and declared the end of Nicolás Maduro’s regime. The walls were closing in. A plane, U.S. officials would claim, was waiting…