Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill) traveled to Venezuela on Wednesday as pressure mounted on President Nicolas Maduro to hand over a Utah man jailed in the turbulent South American country for nearly two years,… Read more »
President Nicolas Maduro said that Venezuela raised $735 million in early sales of its new “petro” cryptocurrency, launched amid deepening financial and political crises in the country, the Council on… Read more »
For a man in charge of a country in the grips of hyperinflation and on the verge of humanitarian crisis, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro seems peculiarly self-assured, the Financial Times reports:… Read more »
The restructuring negotiations over Venezuela’s debt entail a complex geopolitical poker game, the Financial Times reports: With the exception of bondholders, for the other five players sitting round the table… Read more »
The United Nations human rights chief said on Monday that Venezuela’s security forces may have committed crimes against humanity against protesters and called for an international investigation. But Venezuela’s… Read more »
Venezuela’s government hunted on Wednesday for rogue policemen who attacked key installations by helicopter, but critics of President Nicolas Maduro suspected the raid may have been staged to justify… Read more »
When a US federal judge sentences two Venezuelan drug smugglers, perhaps later this month, it will mark the final chapter of a story worthy of the Netflix series “Narcos,” say… Read more »
As the economy continues to deteriorate—GDP shrank an estimated 19% last year and inflation hit 800%—there is little argument about the severity of the crisis in Venezuela. With dozens of political… Read more »
Venezuela’s Congress on Sunday declared that the government had staged a coup by blocking a drive to recall President Nicolas Maduro in a raucous legislative session that was interrupted when… Read more »
Today’s crisis in Venezuela is one of the most serious cases of a slow-motion collapse of a nation-state in the history of the Americas, according to Michael Matera, a senior… Read more »