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Among many people mourning the death of a child in street protests against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is his former boss, from back when the president was a bus driver.
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Venezuela's Supreme Court slapped an asset freeze and travel ban Wednesday on Attorney General Luisa Ortega, a top critic of President Nicolas Maduro, after she accused him of creating a climate of terror.
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An elite cop-turned-film star became the man of the hour Wednesday in the disaster movie that is Venezuela's political crisis.
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For a bracing look at the grassroots anger that has overtaken oil-rich but food-poor Venezuela over the past three months, consider the bedlam that descended on this city.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed Wednesday to fend off what he called a coup attempt after a rogue cop allegedly dropped grenades from a helicopter in an attack the opposition and analysts said could be a hoax.
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A helicopter dropped two grenades on Venezuela's Supreme Court building in a "terror attack" against the government, President Nicolas Maduro said in a speech on Tuesday.
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Venezuela's embattled president Tuesday repeated claims of a US-backed coup attempt against him and angrily warned President Donald Trump that Venezuela would fight back against such a move.
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Thousands of Venezuelans marched Saturday in a new flare-up of protests against Nicolas Maduro, as the embattled president claimed several people had been detained over an alleged "coup" plot aimed at triggering a US military intervention.
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Venezuelan demonstrators blocked streets Friday in protests over the death of a young man shot by police during an anti-government rally the night before.
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A 22-year-old man was shot dead on Thursday during an anti-government protest in Caracas, becoming the 75th victim in three months of unrest over the rule of President Nicolas Maduro.
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US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday called for international action to address the crisis in Venezuela, after a US-backed proposal for regional mediation failed to win support at the Organization of American States.
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Her enemies have branded her insane, but those close to Venezuela's Attorney General Luisa Ortega say her defiance of the government over the country's deadly political crisis is pure courage.
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The Organization of American States failed to advance a plan to deal with Venezuela on Wednesday as it wrapped up a meeting where the country's raging crisis took center stage.
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Venezuela scoffed at the US Tuesday for trying to forge a regional plan to address its raging crisis, saying the only way to make it comply was to "send in the Marines.
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Venezuela's high court ruled Tuesday that the country's attorney general could face charges after she challenged the government's handling of a deadly political crisis.
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro fired four top military commanders Tuesday including the head of a police force that is accused of attacking anti-government protesters during months of deadly unrest.
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Ministers from the Organization of American States met Monday to seek elusive solutions to the crisis in Venezuela, as the death toll from weeks of clashes at anti-government protests rose to 74.
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Ministers from the Organization of American States huddled Monday on the crisis in Venezuela, a meeting that infuriated Caracas but which the regional group's chief insisted was not an "intervention.
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While most Venezuelans struggle to buy food and make ends meet, a small group still manages to eat sushi and sip cocktails in exclusive discos and country clubs.
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Venezuela's Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid to put on trial several senior judges accused of favoring embattled President Nicolas Maduro as he clings to power in the face of deadly unrest.
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Swearing in fury, the crowd strips the man naked and stomps on his head as he sprawls on the ground."You want things that come easy? Then take this, you bastard."In Venezuela, this is what robbers get when they are caught by passers-by.
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Two protesters, both aged 20, died Thursday during anti-government demonstrations in separate regions of Venezuela, bringing the total deaths in more than two months of protests to 72, officials said.
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A Venezuelan retired general said Wednesday he had resigned from a top defense advisory body over the government's contested constitutional reforms, the latest sign of division in the ruling camp.
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Venezuela's attorney general raised the stakes in her standoff with the government on Tuesday by demanding eight Supreme Court judges loyal to President Nicolas Maduro be put on trial.
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Short of newspapers, Venezuelans are getting updates about their country's deadly political crisis live -- acted out by reporters on the bus to work.Maria Gabriela Fernandez and Dereck Blanco stand on board inside a black frame.
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Venezuela's attorney general on Monday said intelligence officials had threatened and harassed her family after she openly challenged President Nicolas Maduro over the country's political crisis.
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Venezuela's Supreme Court on Monday rejected a legal challenge by the attorney general against the government's constitutional reform bid in a deadly political crisis.
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The deadly unrest in Venezuela could lead to "a blood bath" and spark a major refugee crisis, Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski warned on Monday.
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Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called for international arbitration in the Venezuelan crisis but only once political prisoners have been freed, according to an interview published Sunday in a Spanish newspaper.
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Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators marched against the Venezuelan president's planned constitutional reforms on Saturday, with some protests being broken up with tear gas in the country's latest bout of unrest.
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Mount Roraima, Venezuela CIA
President Hugo Chevez of Venezuela in a 2003 visit to Brazil www.en.wikipedia.org
With inflation rising dramatically, Venezuelans face worsening food shortages. The Voting Citizen
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro insists his government will adhere to the rule of law. Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/ABr
President Maduro gave a rousing speech to his military before they were deployed across the country on Saturday to begin a "military exercise." teleSur English
A majority of the members of the motorcycle federation backed the Venezuelan president's moves. Euronews
Protesters demonstrate in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2014, urging US President Barack Obama to impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights abuses against anti-government protesters in Venezuela Jewel Samad, AFP
Some of the 1,088 Colombians deported from Venezuela last week in the wake of the border closing. Youtube
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Peaceful protestors demonstrating in Caracas, Venezuela. Diego Urdaneta
View of Downtown Caracas from Mount Avila G. Rodríguez
Coca-Cola has suspended production in Venezuela. La Patilla
Flooding in Colombia Troskiller
Venezuelan lawmakers brawl LiveLeak
Caracas, Venezuela in 2013 Julio César Mesa
Fidel Castro and Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. Photo courtesy Cubadebate
Will help from China avert a meltdown in Venezuela? Newsy
Late Venezuelan president Chavez remembered worldwide Miraflores Palace / Handout
Yanomami children. Wikimedia Commons
Swearing-in: Nicolas Maduro YouTube
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