Nicolas Maduro

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.

The Trump administration has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest the head of Venezuela’s high court, accusing the judge of taking bribes.

AT&T has decided to immediately abandon Venezuela’s pay TV market as U.S. sanctions prohibit its DirecTV platform from broadcasting channels that it is required to carry by the socialist administration of Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is warning Washington that he is ready to fight by whatever means necessary now that the U.S. has indicted the socialist leader and offered $15 million for his arrest.

A consulting firm owned by a former Miami congressman who was roommates with Sen. Marco Rubio has been sued over allegedly breaking a $50 million consulting contract with Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government

Venezuela’s Guaidó said two U.S.-based political advisers resigned in the fallout from a failed incursion into the South American nation led by a former-Green Beret aimed at capturing Maduro.

Jordan Goudreau once pushed a plan to protect U.S. schools. Then he moved on to a more daring pursuit, which also didn’t end well.

Three Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are demanding answers from the Trump administration about how much it knew about an attempted raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two U.S. citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South American nation.

Some 300 heavily armed volunteers planned to sneak into Venezuela and ignite a popular rebellion that would end in President Nicolas Maduro’s arrest

The Trump administration is ordering Chevron Corp. to “wind down” operations in Venezuela by Dec. 1.

President Donald Trump is sending Navy ships toward Venezuela to beef up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro

The Trump administration is prepared to lift crippling sanctions on Venezuela in support of a new proposal to form a transitional government requiring both Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó to step aside in favor of a five-person governing council, U.S. officials said.

Four people familiar with the case say a retired Venezuelan army general indicted alongside Nicolás Maduro has surrendered in Colombia and is being taken by Drug Enforcement Administration agents to New York for arraignment

Nicolás Maduro effectively converted Venezuela into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups as he and his allies stole billions from the South American country, the Justice Department charged in several indictments against the embattled socialist and his inner circle that were made public Thursday. One indictment by prosecutors in New York accused Maduro...

Attorney General William Barr took questions during Thursday’s press conference about the indictment of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Hear his response when asked about the timing of the indictment.

Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolás Maduro said Friday that authorities haven’t detained opposition leader Juan Guaidó because the courts haven’t ordered it, but he warned: “It will come.” Maduro made the remark in a meeting with the international press three days after Guaidó returned from a tour to the U.S. and Europe, in defiance of a court order prohibiting him...

Russia’s foreign minister visited Venezuela on Friday in a show of support for President Nicolás Maduro as the United States vows of more pressure threaten to cut off the socialist leader from a key financial ally in Moscow. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s stop in Caracas follows a trip by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó to Washington, where officials in...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó attended President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night on Capitol Hill.

Venezuela’s opposition leader says he wants the European Union to widen sanctions against members of the Venezuelan government as a way to push toward free presidential elections in the country.