Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Caracas

How the war in Ukraine has raised hopes in Venezuela and bolstered its strongman president

CARACAS, Venezuela — Just three years ago, Venezuela was a nation on the verge of collapse.

Los Angeles Times

The U.S. is trying to mend ties with Venezuela. One big reason? Oil

The Biden administration has extended an olive branch to Venezuela. It might sway Caracas to resume talks with the opposition for elections, and eventually let Venezuelan oil back on the world market.

WEKU

Venezuela and Colombian presidents discuss trade, human rights

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela held their first bilateral meeting in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on Tuesday, where they discussed topics including trade, human rights and protecting the Amazon rainforest.

Reuters

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Colombia, Venezuela presidents to meet in Caracas

Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro will meet in Caracas on Tuesday to discuss their countries' recently-thawed bilateral ties and expanded trade, the Colombian government said on Monday.

Reuters

Searching for the 'lost promise' of a prosperous Venezuela through photography

Photojournalist Fabiola Ferrero was born in Caracas in 1991 and grew up hearing stories about Venezuela's glory days. Two decades later, she's one of the millions who have left her home country amid economic and political crisis. Thanks to a grant from France's Carmignac Foundation, she went back in search…

France 24

Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido: Set election date now

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Thursday called on authorities to schedule a date for the country's next presidential vote, after years of bitter clashes with President Nicolas Maduro during a deep economic and social crisis.

Reuters

First plane repatriating Venezuelan migrants in Mexico departs for Caracas, sources say

A first flight carrying Venezuelan migrants voluntarily returning to their homeland from Mexico departed on Tuesday, according to two Mexican officials.

Reuters

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Venezuela death toll at 36 after heavy rain brings mudslides

The death toll from mudslides in Venezuela due to heavy rains over the weekend climbed to 36 people in a small city southwest of Caracas, where dozens of people are still missing.

Tribune News Service

Venezuela Floods Kill at Least 25 after Heavy Rains

At least 25 people died and 52 were missing after five small rivers in central Venezuela flooded due to heavy rains, Citizen Security Vice President Remigio Ceballos said Sunday evening in a televised address. The downpour on Saturday night swept large tree trunks and debris from surrounding mountains into the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN renews human rights mission in Venezuela

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday renewed the mandate of its fact-finding mission in Venezuela, an initiative that Caracas has criticized as an aggressive tool for interfering in domestic matters.

Reuters

US could ease Venezuela sanctions, allow Chevron to pump oil: WSJ

Biden administration preparing to ease sanctions if Caracas takes steps towards restoring democracy, report says.

Al Jazeera

Colombia's government, ELN rebel group to reestablish peace talks

Colombia's government and left-wing rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) will reestablish peace talks next month, both parties said on Tuesday during a press conference in Venezuela's capital Caracas.

Reuters

Venezuela Frees 7 Americans in Swap for Maduro Wife's Relatives

In a rare softening of hostile relations, Caracas on Saturday freed seven detained Americans -- including five oil executives -- in exchange for the release of two nephews of Venezuela's first lady who were jailed in the United States for drug trafficking. President Joe Biden issued the announcement that the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fugitive businessman 'Fat Leonard' to seek asylum in Venezuela -reports

CARACAS - A fugitive Malaysian businessman nicknamed 'Fat Leonard' who is at the center of a major U.S. Navy bribery scandal wants to seek political asylum in Venezuela after being detained in the country last week, local media said Monday.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

‘Fat Leonard’ arrested in Venezuela, ending 16 days on the run

Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who fled home arrest in San Diego earlier this month, was arrested Tuesday morning in Venezuela as he attempted to board an airplane at the Caracas international airport, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

The Hindu

Caracas, Success, Jake and Shan E Azeem excel

BENGALURU: Caracas, Success, Jake and Shan E Azeem excelled when the horses were exercised here on W

The Independent UK

Son of revolutionary Che Guevara dies in Venezuela

Camilo Guevara March reportedly suffers heart attack on visit to Caracas

Reuters

Venezuela to support reconstruction of Cuban port damaged by oil fire

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that Venezuela would support Cuba in the reconstruction of its only supertanker port in Matanzas, which was partially destroyed by a fire after lightning struck one of the its crude tanks.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Venezuela opposition leader Guaido in "informal" meetings with Colombia's govt

CARACAS - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has held "informal meetings" with members of newly elected Colombian President Gustavo Petro's government, he said on Friday.

Reuters

Venezuelan breakdancer's helmeted 'head slides' stop traffic

When the traffic light turns red on a busy Caracas street, Venezuelan dancer Kenyer Mendez seizes his chance -- sliding headfirst between waiting cars to show off his daredevil breakdance moves.

Reuters

At Colombia-Venezuela border, a trade revival is eagerly awaited

Colombia's leftist president-elect, Gustavo Petro, pledged on the campaign trail to end neighboring Venezuela's isolation, normalize relations with the socialist government in Caracas, and get trade flowing.

The Hindu

Amreli, Ashwa Bravo, Ayr, Caracas, Siege Perilous, and Moon’s Blessing please

BENGALURU: Amreli, Ashwa Bravo, Ayr, Caracas, Siege Perilous, and Moon’s Blessing pleased when the

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Biden officials travel to Venezuela for second round of talks on ‘welfare and safety’ of Americans

WASHINGTON — Senior officials in the Biden administration traveled to Caracas on Monday to discuss “the welfare and safety of U.S. nationals in Venezuela,” a State Department official told the Miami Herald.

The Independent UK

US officials back in Venezuela in a bid to rebuild ties

Senior Biden administration officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on, driving higher gas prices and forcing the U.S. to recalibrate other foreign policy objectives

Miami Herald

Colombia’s president-elect talks to Maduro about reopening border with Venezuela

Colombia’s president-elect Gustavo Petro is wasting no time in fulfilling his promise of normalizing relations between his country and the socialist regime in Caracas, discussing with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro the reopening of the border between the two nations three days after winning the election.

1 … 16 17 18 19

People

Leonard Glenn Francis

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

United Nations Human Rights Council

14 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.