Venezuelans still reeling from the outcome of last year’s presidential election did not respond to government calls to get out and vote for lawmakers, governors and other officials.
Venezuela’s government has acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for over a year.
Aides to Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado say she was detained but they've been contradicted by authorities who accuse government opponents of trying to spark an international crisis.
Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election, says that his son-in-law has been kidnapped in Caracas.
Venezuela’s political opposition is signaling a shift toward a flexible timeline for a government transition that it had long insisted would come next month when the new presidential term is set to begin.
The top United Nations human rights watchdog has ordered Venezuela to avoid destroying tally sheets as it opens an investigation into allegations that President Nicolás Maduro stole this summer’s election.
Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has urged the U.S. to cancel licenses for Chevron and other energy companies.
The U.S. government has responded to Venezuela’s disputed July presidential election by imposing sanctions against 16 allies of President Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is vowing to keep the pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to leave office in January.
A Venezuelan aid worker’s arrest while catching an international flight has cast a spotlight on the climate of fear and repression engulfing the South American nation in the wake of its disputed presidential election.
The presidential campaign of Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González says he will not appear before the country’s high court.
A senior Mexican official says that since Venezuela’s disputed presidential election nine days ago, officials from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are in constant contact with representatives of both Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González, seeking a solution to the country’s political crisis.
Venezuela’s top prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation against the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo González and its leader Maria Corina Machado over their call on the armed forces to abandon their support for President Nicolás Maduro and to stop repressing demonstrators.
Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela’s capital, waving the national flag and singing the national anthem in support of an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide.
Twenty-four hours after polls closed in Venezuela's presidential election, the leader of the opposition announced that her coalition had gathered more than two-thirds of vote tally sheets from polling centers nationwide.
An Associated Press review of vote tally sheets released by Venezuela’s opposition indicates that their candidate won significantly more votes in the presidential election than the government has claimed.
President Nicolás Maduro has asked Venezuela’s high court to conduct an audit of the presidential election after opposition leaders disputed his claim of victory.
The Carter Center said it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela’s presidential election and blamed authorities for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without providing any individual polling tallies.
As thousands of people demonstrate across Venezuela, opposition candidate Edmundo González has announced that his campaign has the proof it needs to show he won the country’s disputed election whose victory electoral authorities handed to President Nicolás Maduro.
Nicolás Maduro has been declared the winner in Venezuela’s presidential election Sunday, even as his opponents were preparing to dispute the results, setting up a high-stakes showdown that will determine whether the South American nation transitions away from one-party rule.
Venezuela’s opposition claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election, setting up a showdown with the government, which earlier declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner.
Maria Corina Machado has walked highways, sought shelter in supporters’ homes and seen her closest collaborators detained and persecuted as she crisscrossed Venezuela ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
Venezuela’s presidential candidates have closed their campaigns ahead of Sunday's vote with demonstrations attended by thousands of people.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is working hard to shore up the loyalty of the armed forces and keep top commanders in line, days ahead of a hotly disputed election that threatens the self-proclaimed socialist's hold on power.
The chant is concise, but it could not be more meaningful for millions of Venezuelans in 2024: “Freedom!”.
At an intersection packed in four directions, rally-goers scream and light up cellphones in the evening as Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado climbs onto a flatbed truck like a presidential candidate.
The U.S. government has pulled back part of the sanctions relief it granted Venezuela last year, following through on its threat after the South American country’s highest court blocked the presidential candidacy of an opposition leader.
The U.S. government has condemned the decision of Venezuela’s highest court to block the presidential candidacy of opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Former Venezuelan lawmaker María Corina Machado, a longtime critic of Venezuela’s government, has dominated the opposition’s presidential primary election, getting more than 1.4 million votes, according to the latest partial results.
A faction of Venezuela’s opposition is set to pick its candidate for next year’s presidential election.
Maria Corina Machado has been a longtime foe of Venezuela’s government, and not exactly a unifying figure for its critics.
