Venezuela News

Caracas - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was on his way to Beijing for bilateral talks with the Chinese government. His plans were delayed by the USA denying Maduro's plane a path through Puerto Rico's airspace.

A clash between rival prison gangs has killed 15 inmates inside the Sabaneta jail in Maracaibo. A city in Western Venezuela. Another victim has been killed in a separate incident in the prison.

No, the new Jurassic Park movie is not being filmed there, but what paleontologists found buried in the ground of Venezuela would fit right into one of the movies: a Volkswagen-sized armadillo, a crocodile larger than a bus, and a saber-toothed tiger.

Caracas - A power cut left around 70 percent of Venezuela without power on Tuesday. President Nicolás Maduro says sabotage by opposition is responsible for the outage, but his opposition disagrees.

Puerto La Cruz - A huge fire broke out in an oil refinery on Sunday when lightning struck a treatment pond. A massive pillar of black smoke enveloped the Venezuelan town of Puerto la Cruz, prompting residents to evacuate the immediate area.

Caracas - Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has decided to end attempts to normalize relations between the US and Venezuela after the US nominee for UN envoy, Samantha Power, said that she would oppose the crackdown on civil society in repressive Venezuela.

Benidorm - Britain's criminals might just start thinking twice about moving to Spain to continue plying their "trade," as Spanish police have arrested a notorious UK drug dealer and "coke king," Brian Charrington, and several accomplices.

The latest rumor about Edward Snowden's whereabouts have him somewhere in Russia with his next step supposedly Venezuela after receiving an invitation from that country's leaders.

Caracas - In defending his government's decision to offer asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Venezuela's president slammed the United States for its hypocrisy in calling for Snowden's extradition while harboring the hemisphere's most notorious terrorist.

American Edward Snowden, who leaked spying secrets from his country's NSA program, may have found a new home. Believed to be living in the transit zone of a Moscow airport since June 23, a Russian minister's tweet says he'll be leaving for Venezuela.