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Venezuela’s Maduro expels US diplomats, rejects sanctions

Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the top two US diplomats in the country on Tuesday, charging it was the victim of a “political and financial lynching” after Washington tightened sanctions over Nicolas Maduro’s re-election. Maduro announced the expulsions in a televised speech after being officially proclaimed the winner of Sunday’s election in the South American nation mired in an acute economic crisis and facing growing international isolation. The vote was […]

23 May 2018

International News

Latin American leaders recall ambassadors to Venezuela over vote

A bloc of countries from the Americas opposing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that all its 14 members will recall their ambassadors to the country to protest against what it said was the country's failure to hold a "free and fair" election. In a statement issued on Monday, the Lima Group said the members' diplomats in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, would return to their respective countries for consultations. The […]

22 May 2018

International News

Venezuela’s Maduro wins presidential vote boycotted by opposition

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, the election board announced in what is being seen as a controversial vote. According to the results announced by Tibisay Lucena, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), President Maduro obtained 5.8 million votes while his main opponent, Henri Falcon, collected a total of 1.8 million votes. The turnout was 46.01 percent and the projection was at 48 percent, […]

21 May 2018

International News

Venezuela jailbreak attempt sparks blaze, 68 dead

A fire allegedly set during an attempted jailbreak from Venezuelan police holding cells killed 68 people on Wednesday, the country’s top prosecutor and inmates’ rights group says. The blaze at the detention facility in Carabobo state is the latest in a series of deadly incidents in Venezuela’s overcrowded jails. “In light of the terrible events that took place in the Carabobo state police headquarters, where 68 people died in a […]

29 March 2018

International News

Trump issues travel restrictions on North Korea, Venezuela in expanded ban

The United States will prohibit entry of citizens from North Korea to the US as part of a sweeping new travel ban that also slaps restrictions on Iran, Chad, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen and Somalia, the Trump administration said in a statement on Sunday. The addition of North Korea and Venezuela broadens the restrictions from the original, mostly Muslim-majority list. It also removes Sudan, one of the countries in the […]

25 September 2017

International News

US imposes sweeping financial sanctions on Venezuela

The US imposed sweeping financial sanctions on Venezuela on Friday, which were angrily denounced by Caracas and dramatically ratcheted up tensions between the two countries. The sanctions, which US President Donald Trump signed by executive order, prohibit American financial institutions from providing new money to the government or the state oil company, PDVSA, and could make it harder for embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to raise badly needed cash to […]

26 August 2017

International News

Venezuela constitutional vote marred by violence, death

At least nine people, including an election candidate, have been killed in the past 24 hours in Venezuela as the country voted for an all-powerful new legislative body tasked with reforming the constitution. Country's opposition parties boycotted Sunday's polls, which they say is aimed at consolidating President Nicolas Maduro's power. Counting of ballots across Venezuela began on Sunday night after the voting was extended by an hour. Preliminary results were […]

31 July 2017

International News

Venezuela Supreme Court attacked from helicopter

A police helicopter has dropped grenades on Venezuela's Supreme Court building and fired shots at the interior ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro called a "terror attack" against his government. Information minister Ernesto Villegas said the stolen helicopter first fired 15 shots on the ministry in Caracas, the capital, as a reception was taking place on Tuesday. It then flew a short distance to the Supreme Court building and dropped […]

28 June 2017

International News

Venezuela opposition leaders wounded in protest march

Two Venezuelan opposition leaders were among more than a dozen people wounded by security forces dispersing protests in the capital Caracas against President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro's adversaries have for two months been blocking highways and setting up barricades in protests demanding he call early elections and address an increasingly severe economic crisis that has left millions struggling to get enough to eat. Fifty-nine people have died in the often violent […]

30 May 2017

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