Venezuela

As a coup attempt is underway in Venezuela, activists are occupying the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest the U.S.-backed efforts at regime change. Activists with CodePink and other organizations have taken over the building with the permissi…

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said Monday that backers who had pledged support for his abortive uprising last week had "failed to follow through" to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro. "There were people who failed to follow through…

Venezuela is ready to see off any attack from the United States, the country's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Monday in Moscow. "We are ready for all scenarios. The first is diplomacy, dialogue, peace," Arreaza told a press conference after a meeting…

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an event at Bolivar Square in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. AP CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged his troops Saturday to be “ready” for potential US military action, a…

U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido defended an apparently failed effort to convince President Nicolas Maduros top aides to desert this week -- saying that although Maduros senior aides did not ultimately defect, the efforts deepened fracture…

Opposition leader Juan Guaido will make a fresh bid on Saturday to rally Venezuela's armed forces behind him calling on his supporters to march to military bases and barracks. The protest call by the head of the National Assembly legislature - who is recogni…

Liberal activists from the anti-war group Code Pink are refusing to leave the abandoned Venezuelan embassy in Washington, vowing to protect the building from a “hostile takeover” as the U.S. State Department labels them “trespassers” and calls on them to leav…

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed the crisis in oil-rich Venezuela, where Washington has thrown its weight behind a campaign to oust the Moscow-backed socialist president. "Very produc…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local): 10:55 a.m. Human rights groups say a 15-year-old boy is the latest casualty in Venezuela's ongoing unrest. The Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict reported Fri…

Headlines for May 3, 2019