All news on the topic: Venezuela

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Caracas responds to U.S. with three-day military drills in the Caribbean
Venezuela says it has launched three days of large-scale military exercises in the Caribbean after several U.S. attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats.
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Republican slams Vance for ‘despicable’ comments on Venezuelan boat strike
The Republican senator who leads the homeland security committee has criticized JD Vance for “despicable” comments, seemingly in support of extrajudicial military killings.
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Trump: US hits drug boat near Venezuela
President Donald Trump says the US has carried out a strike against a drug-carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean, killing 11 "Narcoterrorists".
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US doubles reward for Maduro’s arrest to $50 million, accusing him of drug trafficking
The US has doubled a reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to $50m (£37.2m), accusing him of being "one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world".
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Dismembered body of 19-year-old Venezuelan TikToker found in Peru — Venezuelan mafia suspected
The remains of a teenage TikTok star were discovered dismembered and placed in bags at a water treatment facility.
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Former Venezuelan intelligence chief admits he ran drug cartel with Chávez and Maduro
Hugo Carvajal Barrios, who served as Venezuela’s director of military intelligence, was due to go to trial on June 30.
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Trump invokes 1798 wartime law to fast-track mass deportations
Donald Trump has brought back a wartime law from 1798 to speed up mass deportations.
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Hugo Carvajal’s lawyer plans to challenge U.S. extradition and argue sovereign immunity
Hugo Carvajal Barrios, who served as Venezuela’s military intelligence director, is scheduled to go to trial in the U.S. in June on charges of "narco-terrorism."
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Corruption survey reveals decade-low scores for many nations, with South Sudan at the bottom
Many countries had their worst showing in more than a decade in an index released Tuesday that serves as a barometer of public sector corruption worldwide, from leading powers such as the United States and France to authoritarian nations such as Russia and Venezuela.
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The hacking from North Macedonia was aimed at PDVSA and not at the elections
The Caracas regime tried to establish a version according to which the delay in announcing the results of the June 28 elections, and their subsequent announcement without public minutes...
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Venezuela opposition leader freed; government denies involvement
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was freed on Thursday, her Vente Venezuela movement...
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A brand new company handles Iranian cars arriving in Venezuela
The social program of the Bolivarian government that offered “cheap cars for the people” is, in reality, a private business supported by the Venezuelan State...
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Smuggling adapts to the reopening of the Colombia-Venezuela border
As darkness falls over Cúcuta, Colombia’s bustling border city, shadows provide cover for criminal networks.
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A Venezuelan judge has issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate
A Venezuelan judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the highly anticipated July election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won.
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The Venezuelan link to El Salvador’s pandemic food aid fraud
In the chaotic first week of the Covid pandemic, El Salvador paid an offshore company US$27 million to provide milk powder for its hungry citizens –– but the shell firm overcharged and under-delivered, pocketing $7 million, a government audit found.
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Opponents of Maduro in Venezuela find their houses marked with an X
Residents of a Caracas neighbourhood who found their homes marked with a black "X" last week believe that regime loyalists are behind the overnight operation intended to indicate where opposition supporters live.
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Venezuela election: US recognizes opposition candidate Edmundo González as winner
US secretary of state Antony Blinken says there is ‘overwhelming evidence’ González beat Nicolás Maduro in last weekend’s presidential election
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Anti-Maduro protests spread as Venezuelan opposition claims he stole the election
Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro planned to rally on Tuesday as protests and clashes spread after a weekend election was awarded to the long-ruling socialist despite opposition claims of a landslide victory.
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Venezuela election: Government-controlled authority declares Maduro the winner
Result with 80% of votes is immediately challenged by opposition and several governments
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Venezuelans hope to end their suffering by casting ballots on Sunday
Venezuelans are heading to the polls on Sunday in the most anticipated elections in decades, with many hoping to put an end to the repressive political system established 25 years ago by Hugo Chávez and inherited a decade ago by Nicolás Maduro.
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Spanish court asked to fine Duro Felguera €160M in Venezuela bribery case
Spanish anti-corruption prosecutors have asked a court to impose a fine of 160 million euros ($173 million) on the engineering and construction company Duro Felguera S.A.
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Venezuelan involvement in BES/Venezuela case revealed: father and son Rafael Cure play key roles
The investigation by the Portuguese prosecutor’s office into the so-called BES / Venezuela case concluded last year and produced only some accusations against former directors of the bank that collapsed in 2014.
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CNN documentary: “Most disruptive” Latin American gang has reached the US
A violent gang that most likely originated in a Venezuelan prison in 2012 has, in just over a decade, grown into Latin America’s “most disruptive” criminal group and is spreading like cancer throughout the continent.
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The always insufficient balance of Nodus Bank
A recently released judicial document recounts the series of misdeeds that two Venezuelans allegedly committed in the administration of that bank in Puerto Rico, which when it collapsed left debts still unpaid for 3,500 savers.
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Dubai is a hiding place for the key man of Espirito Santo bribes in Venezuela
An employee of the centenary Portuguese bank was chosen in 2009 to serve, from the island of Madeira, as a contact with officials of the Chavista regime who agreed to do business with the dying institution - it would collapse in 2014 - but only in exchange for juicy bribes.