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The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has committed systematic human rights violations including killings and torture amounting to crimes against humanity, UN investigators said in a report on Wednesday. Reasonable grounds existed to believe that Maduro and his interior and defence ministers ordered or contributed to the crimes documented…

GENEVA (AP) — Independent experts for the U.N.’s top human rights body accused the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday of crimes against humanity, highlighting grisly cases of torture and killings allegedly carried out by security forces who used techniques like electric shocks, genital mutilation and asphyxiation.In a…

ADVERTISEMENTRelated topicsHuman rights and civil libertiesSocial affairsAp News AlertGovernment and politicsSocial issuesUnited NationsSeptember 16, 2020 GMTGENEVA (AP) — Experts working with U.N. human rights body say Maduro government responsible for “crimes against humanity” in Venezuela.ADVERTISEMENTRead More

By AFP     Sep 15, 2020 in World US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday he would highlight the plight of refugees from Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela on a regional trip that includes the country's border area with Brazil.Pompeo will head Friday to the Brazilian city of Boa Vista…

VENEZUELA'S President says authorities caught a U.S. Marine-turned-CIA spy with 'special weapons' meant to target the nation's oil refineries President Nicolás Maduro said the U.S. spy was caught targeting a pair of refineries on the north Caribbean coast as the country is in the grips of a deep gasoline shortage.…

CARACAS (Reuters) - Pro-government media in Venezuela on Sunday named an alleged U.S. spy who President Nicolas Maduro said was captured last week near the country's largest oil refinery complex. Outlets close to the ruling Socialist Party identified the detainee as a former marine, John Heath Mattew, and said he…

By AFP     5 hours ago in World Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido called Monday on the armed forces to back a boycott of December's contested legislative polls and help escalate international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.In an address on social media, Guaido urged the military high command to…

Venezuela’s oil industry—rich in reserves, a crucial Allied resource in World War II, a founding member of OPEC—is grinding toward a halt. Venezuela has greater oil stores than any other country. But after years of corruption, mismanagement and more recently U.S. sanctions, its oil output has dropped to a tenth…

MIAMI (AP) — Police in Colombia have arrested three Venezuelans who were part of a failed plot organized by a former U.S. Green Beret to sneak across the border and oust President Nicolás Maduro, The Associated Press has learnedThe three were arrested in simultaneous raids by heavily-armed security forces early…

In what may be one of the most forthright criticisms ever leveled by a foreign minister of another country against Canada, Jorge Arreaza recently spent an hour detailing Ottawa's bid to overthrow his government. "Under the guise of defending human rights, they began to intervene in our internal affairs," Arreaza said during an online talk…