Venezuela plans to free 300 people including some whose detentions are considered politically based

Venezuela’s government plans to release 300 detainees this week, some held for political reasons. National Assembly president Jorge Rodríguez announced the releases Tuesday in Caracas.

Nicolás Maduro ally is charged in Venezuela bribery case after deportation to U.S.

Alex Saab was deported over the weekend as part of a purge of insider businessmen believed to have enriched themselves ...

‘Spooks hotel’: inside the five-star nerve centre of the US takeover of Venezuela

Diplomats, businessmen and US marines mingle at the JW Marriott hotel in Caracas as deals are done and the country’s resources divvied up ...

Venezuela to free 300 prisoners this week, top lawmaker says

The head of Venezuela's National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, on Tuesday said that 300 prisoners will be released from jail ...

How Venezuela has – and hasn’t – changed since Maduro’s capture

Delcy Rodríguez has maintained tight control of political conditions inside the country, while prioritising economic ...

Behind the shiny veneer of the ‘new’ Venezuela

CNN finds Venezuelans talking of a “fragile” society even as they use the limited freedoms they have months after the US ...

Students protest in Venezuela after deaths of political prisoner and his mother

A few dozen people have demonstrated in Venezuela’s capital to remember a woman who died over the weekend. Her son died in ...