An American Air Force veteran has been released from imprisonment in Venezuela, a US official and the man’s family said in a statement Tuesday. Joseph St. Clair was released to US special envoy ...

The Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful criminal group. In recent years it has expanded its operations to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina, according to the US State Department.

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a senior Trump administration official.

How Venezuela imploded (update) : Planet Money (Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2016.) Back in 2016, things were pretty bad in Venezuela. Grocery stores didn't have enough food.

That was the case for many voters in Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second largest city. Sonia Gómez, 65, said she had checked the election council website on Saturday to verify her polling station.

Repression in Venezuela escalated during 2024 ahead of the July 28 elections, and a brutal crackdown followed the announcement, contrary to available evidence, that Nicolás Maduro had been re ...

Venezuela released six detained Americans on Friday as President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions ended a visit that included talks on U.S. efforts to repatriate large numbers of people ...

Ms. Machado, a former member of the National Assembly of Venezuela, is the leader of the country’s political opposition. She wrote from Caracas. Venezuelans are putting everything on the line in ...