Venezuela News

Caracas - Armed with cooking pots in a potent symbol of Venezuela's chronic food shortages, several thousand people took to the streets of Caracas in the latest rally against President Nicolas Maduro.The protests, which fell on International Women's Day, consist...

San Crist - Patricia Gamboa arrived at a government-run supermarket in western Venezuela at 2:00 am, six hours before doors opened, to be first in line and buy whatever she could get her hands on.As dawn broke, about 200 people stood behind her outside the Bicente...

Caracas - Armed with cooking pots in a potent symbol of Venezuela's chronic food shortage, thousands took to the streets Saturday in the latest public rally against the government of President Nicolas Maduro.The protest, which fell on International Women's Day, ...

Caracas - Venezuelans will march again on Saturday against the country's chronic food shortage, one of the major grievances in a wave of protests shadowing President Nicolas Maduro's government.At least 20 people have now died in Venezuela since protests first e...

San Crist - Barricades made of burning trash, metal fences, tree stumps and washing machines block several streets in the western city where Venezuela's protest movement was born.It is no longer just students who are building barriers in San Cristobal.

Panama City - President Ricardo Martinelli told Venezuela on Friday that its decision to break off ties with Panama should not serve as an excuse to renege on its debt exceeding $1 billion.Martinelli's warning came a day after Venezuela ordered the expulsion of Pana...

Panama City - President Ricardo Martinelli warned Venezuela Friday that its decision to break off relations with Panama should not be used as an excuse to renege on its more than $1 billion debt."I don't want to think that this is an excuse not to pay and that the V...

Bras - In the face of violent protests roiling Venezuela, many of Latin America's leaders have backed the government of President Nicolas Maduro, some have stayed mum and only a few have complained.The region's few voices of dissent have been conservative lea...

Panama City - The Venezuelan government ordered Panama's ambassador and three other diplomats at the mission to leave the country within 48 hours, a Panamanian official said Thursday, a day after Caracas broke ties with Panama City."We received a note from the forei...

Caracas - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged a meeting of South American leaders over the growing turmoil facing his country, where the death toll from a month of anti-government protests hit 20.The under-pressure leader's move on Thursday came a day afte...