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The last 24 hours in Venezuela have been volatile, beginning with widespread looting in the coastal city of Ma... . Venezuela's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega speaks during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
A police helicopter fired on Venezuela's Supreme Court and Interior Ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro said was a thwarted "terrorist attack" aimed at ousting him from power. The confusing exchange, which is bound to ratchet up tensions in a country already paralyzed by months of deadly anti-government protests, took place as Maduro was speaking live on state television Tuesday.
The wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez rushed to Caracas' military hospital late Wednesday seeking information on her husband after a report on social media said he had been taken there with a medical emergency - a scare that proved to be wrong. "Please, can you inform us if anyone brought Leopoldo here? Did he enter or not?" Lilian Tintori could be heard pleading tearfully through the metal bars at the hospital's entrance.
Thousands of protesters were met with plumes of tear gas in Venezuela's capital Wednesday, just a short distance from where President Nicolas Maduro delivered a decree kicking off a process to rewrite the polarized nation's constitution. Surrounded by top-ranking socialist officials, a riled-up Maduro told supporters dressed in red outside the National Electoral Council that the constitutional assembly was needed to instill peace against a violent opposition.
If you want to know how Venezuela went from one of the richest nations in South America to a basket case of 4-digit inflation, the answer is "chavistas." Chavistas are the people who voted for former President Hugo Chavez on the promise that the government would provide for them.
A chilling, first-hand account of a doctor refusing to turn a battered protester in to "law enforcement" puts a new spin on the word "terrorist." Those are the words that GNB officers who caught a young Venezuelan during last Monday's rally in Caracas used to try to convince the doctor curing his wounds to let them take him to jail.
The logo of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA is seen at a gas station in Caracas, Venezuela December 23, 2016. A flag bearing the logo of Tradequip is pictured at its headquarters in Maracaibo, Venezuela April 2, 2016.
The front and back of the newly-issued 20,000 Bolivar is displayed in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan Central Bank president Nelson Merentes unveiled the new series of higher-denominated bills as triple-digit inflation and a currency meltdown leave the country's largest note worth just around 2 US cents on the black market.
As one would expect, Cuba's puppet dictator in Caracas, Nicolas Maduro, follows the Castro playbook to the letter. The Cuban people have watched the Castro regime sell or give away their country's resources abroad for decades as they continue to live in squalor and misery.
Caracas, Nov 14 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has urged his US counterpart Barack Obama to revoke an executive order that labelled his country a security threat. It is an atrocity that I hope Obama corrects before he leaves office, Maduro said on Sunday, reiterating his government's willingness to improve diplomatic ties with the US.
A birther debate is heating up in Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro's opponents seek to push the embattled socialist leader from office at any cost. On Tuesday, the opposition-controlled congress began debating Maduro's "constitutional situation" in which lawmakers vow to present evidence that he's a dual Colombian citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to hold Venezuela's highest office.
A former Guantanamo prisoner now held by Venezuela's intelligence agency has gone on hunger strike, his lawyer said Saturday. Held in Guantanamo for 12 years without charge, Jihad Diyab, pictured on Sep 8, 2015, was released from the US military prison in southern Cuba to Uruguay in 2014 along with five fellow former detainees.
In Panama City, a sign on the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, which created offshore accounts for clients and has come under scrutiny from several countries. Nearly three months after the revelations from the Panama Papers exposed politicians, drug cartels and the wealthy hiding millions behind offshore companies, the U.S. Justice Department has yet to ask its Panamanian counterpart for access to seized records.