Venezuela News
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Venezuela's opposition vowed Thursday to stage "overwhelming, forceful" protests after authorities quashed its hopes of ousting President Nicolas Maduro's government in a recall referendum.
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Venezuela's electoral authority ruled out a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro this year, all but dashing opposition hopes to oust him at the ballot box.
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Venezuelan bus drivers protesting their country's economic crisis parked their buses in the street on Wednesday, causing traffic chaos in Caracas and embarrassing President Nicolas Maduro, a former colleague.
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Venezuela accused the United States on Tuesday of spying on a Non-Aligned Movement summit it recently hosted, saying Venezuelan fighter jets had intercepted a US surveillance plane and forced it to turn back.
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Robbers hijacked the bus of a Venezuelan first-division football team and held the squad for more than two terrifying hours at gunpoint, even taking their clothes and footwear, the club said Monday.
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The opposition governor of Venezuela's second-largest state, Henrique Capriles, declared an emergency Monday over a lack of food for public schools, blaming the socialist government's "misguided" policies.
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Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro has warned world leaders at a Non-Aligned Summit that his country was being lashed by a US economic war aimed at toppling him.
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The Non-Aligned Movement opens a summit in Venezuela, seeking relevance in a post-Cold War world as the crisis-torn host country seeks to lessen its growing isolation.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani set off Friday for a tour of Venezuela and Cuba before heading to New York for next week's UN General Assembly, official media reported.
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Banging empty pots, protesters in crisis-stricken Venezuela vented anger at the authorities Friday after a new delay in the process of calling a referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro from power.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro extended a state of "economic emergency" for the fourth time Thursday, keeping vast powers to deal with a crisis that has only deepened in recent weeks.
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Left increasingly isolated by a crushing political and economic crisis, Venezuela will seek the support of old friends when it hosts a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement this weekend.
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The founding members of the South American trading bloc Mercosur announced Wednesday that they have taken over its rotating presidency to block Venezuela from the post, threatening to suspend the country if it fails to comply with obligations.
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Countries are increasingly refusing to cooperate with the UN on human rights, the world body warned Tuesday, voicing alarm at situations in dozens of states, including Syria, Iran and Venezuela.
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Venezuelan authorities have postponed announcing the dates for the final stage in the opposition-led push to call a referendum on removing embattled President Nicolas Maduro from power.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's opponents are betting on the power of the street as they try to force him from office, but their strategy could backfire.
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People in violence-stricken Venezuela are trading in their guns for much-needed electrical household gadgets under an official scheme, the government said.
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Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said that armed supporters of the leftist national government "besieged" him and other travelers at an airport on the island of Margarita.
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Thousands of Venezuelans staged rival demonstrations Wednesday for and against President Nicolas Maduro in a new test of strength as the opposition pushes for a vote on driving him from power.
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Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled the opposition-controlled legislature's bills are "null and void" because it swore in three lawmakers accused of electoral fraud.
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Venezuela has released all but one of dozens of protesters rounded up after an angry, pot-banging crowd reportedly surrounded President Nicolas Maduro amid mass protests over the country's crippling food shortages.
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Venezuela named publicly 18 military commanders to oversee the production and distribution of food and basic goods in an effort to alleviate severe shortages affecting the country.
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Most of 30 or so protesters arrested in a rally against President Nicolas Maduro have now been freed, authorities said, after mass demonstrations over Venezuela's food shortages.
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A day after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's opponents staged a mass demonstration calling for a referendum on removing him from office, their victory still looked far from certain on Friday.
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Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have mobilized a million demonstrators in the biggest rally in decades, vowing weekly mass protests to demand a referendum on ousting him from power.
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Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said around a million people joined in a rally Thursday demanding a referendum on removing him from office."Between 950,000 and 1.
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Venezuela's political crisis has steadily deepened with the opposition seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, leading to mass street protests on Thursday.
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Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have mobilized a million demonstrators Thursday in the biggest rally in decades, demanding a referendum on removing him from power.
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Venezuela's opposition and government head into a crucial test of strength Thursday with massive marches for and against a referendum to recall President Nicolas Maduro that have raised fears of a violent confrontation.
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Venezuela and Brazil on Wednesday withdrew their respective ambassadors after Caracas froze ties with its southern neighbor in response to president Dilma Rousseff's removal from office.
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Some of the 1,088 Colombians deported from Venezuela last week in the wake of the border closing. Youtube
Late Venezuelan president Chavez remembered worldwide Miraflores Palace / Handout
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YouTube - Jan. 7, 2013. Marita De La Pena
US Navy Commander Robert S. Kerno (left) points out some sights to the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Photo by Martin Maddock, USN
Coca-Cola has suspended production in Venezuela. La Patilla
Yanomami children. Wikimedia Commons
Venezuelan actress Monica Spear. AVN
Ivian Sarcos, Miss Venezuela is the Miss World 2011 PR / Miss World Ltd.
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) talks to supporters during a meeting at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas December 8, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Fire at an oil refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela was caused by a lightning strike (August 11, 2013). YouTube
Caracas, Venezuela in 2013 Julio César Mesa
Venezuelan lawmakers brawl LiveLeak
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez returns from Cuba where he received chemo treatments. Miraflores Presidential Press Office
Swearing-in: Nicolas Maduro YouTube
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
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Fire at an oil refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela was caused by a lightning strike (August 11, 2013). YouTube
Venenzuelan president Hugo Chávez with Perú's new leader Ollanta Humala (right) chavezcandaga
View of Downtown Caracas from Mount Avila G. Rodríguez
Venezuela turned its border with Colombia militarized on August 20, right after President Nicolas Maduro announced its closure for 72 hours over an allegedly paramilitary attack that left three military officers and one civilian wounded. New China TV
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