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Elections
Venezuelans head to the polls on Sunday with many hoping for a change in leadership
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a group of tourists take photos of the birds perched on the balcony rails
Environment
Macaws lighten things up in Venezuela’s capital, and form a special bond with residents
US dollars are now commonly used by businesses in Venezuela. The informal adoption of the dollar has helped to decrease inflation and product shortages.
Economics
Venezuela’s public sector workers take on multiple side jobs just to get by
a man standing in front of a colorful bottle cap mural
Arts
Venezuelan artist uses recycled bottle caps to create large eco-murals
A soldier is shown wearing a face mask and a military uniform while standing in front of a wall painted with the eyes of the late President Hugo Chávez.
Elections
Venezuela’s Maduro claims sweep of boycotted election
Protesters around a flower wreath
Top of The World
Workers’ movements advocate for rights on May Day; Saudi activists allege man killed over megacity plans; Doctors wait hours as Venezuela faces fuel shortages
Customers wait while a fuel dispenser machine is fixed at a gas station in Caracas, Venezuela, April 23, 2020.
COVID-19
Doctors wait hours to fill tanks as Venezuela faces fuel shortages
Venezuela's disputed President Nicolas Maduro gestures as he speaks during a special session of the National Constituent Assembly to deliver his annual state of the nation speech, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 14, 2020.
The US has renewed its support for Venezuela’s opposition. What does it mean?
venezuelan ex military men in colombia
Conflict
From Colombia, Venezuelan defectors arm themselves to ‘liberate’ their homeland
Man stands wearing white shirt in front of a hotel.
Conflict
Venezuela’s ex-military deserted Maduro hoping for a revolution. Now they’re on the brink of homelessness.
Lawmaker Richard Blanco is shown with his right hand rised and finger pointed up while giveing a speech.
Politics
Venezuelan lawmakers seek refuge in embassies after crackdown on Guaidó allies
Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo López is shown in a crowd of people speaking into several microphones.
Global Politics
Venezuela opposition figure, facing arrest warrant, says he met with generals
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro is shown wearing a blue shirt standing among a group of military authorities.
Maduro hangs on as Venezuelan protests peter out
military in venezuela
Conflict
Venezuela’s Guaidó urges troops to rise, mass protests planned
Young men wearing black stand on steps and raise fists in air.
Conflict
Maduro turns to violent ‘mercenary’ colectivos to maintain order
audience at a comedy show in venezuela
Arts, Culture & Media
Venezuela’s crisis is a tragedy — but comedy gold for satire, cartoons and memes
A man is shown in shadow walking past darked machinery.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Blackouts threaten death blow to Venezuela’s industrial survivors
A demonstrator stands shirtless nex to a mostly burned rectangular frame during a protest .
Conflict & Justice
Venezuelans set up burning barricades over lack of power, water
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó sits in the back seat of a car next to his wife Fabiana Rosales waving.
Venezuela’s Guaidó to risk arrest as he returns home to challenge Maduro
A skinny and malnourished woman poses for a picture while sitting at a table at her home in Caracas, Venezuela.
Conflict & Justice
Malnourished Venezuelans hope urgently needed aid arrives soon
Juan Guaido is shown in a suit jacket and no tie while holding a copy of Venezuelan constitution during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela.
As Maduro holds on, Venezuela opposition eyes negotiated transition
Opposition leader Juan Guaido is shown standing at a podium with a large Venezuelan flag projected behind him.
Global Politics
Showdown looms as Venezuela’s Guaido sets aid entry date
Venezuelans walk past a wall painted with the face of then presidential candidate Hugo Chávez. The leftist military leader tapped into a wave of discontent in the country with falling living standards and corrupt public institutions, December 1998.
Venezuela was once the richest, most stable, democracy in Latin America. What happened?
A busy scene at a border town in Cúcuta, Colombia.
Conflict
As Venezuela’s crisis worsens, thousands more flee to neighboring Colombia seeking relief
The corporate logo of Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA is seen at a gas station sign
Why does oil matter so much to Venezuela?
duddy
All but ‘nonessential’ US diplomats in Venezuela stay put despite Maduro’s order to leave
Politician shakes many hands at a rally.
Global Politics
Is Venezuela on the precipice of presidential change?
Juan Guaidó holds a copy of Venezuelan constitution and shouts, in front of the Venezuelan flag
Conflict & Justice
Venezuela’s self-proclaimed president Guaidó continues to pressure Maduro
A woman holds a protest sign in Spanish.
Global Politics
US considers sanctions on Cuba for helping Venezuela’s dissent crackdown
Three cows in the back yard of an urban property.
Urban ranching: A socialist commune’s response to Venezuela’s crisis
venezuelans gather outside their embassy in lima
Conflict
Dozens of Venezuelans in Peru seek to return home despite crisis
This this wide framed photograph, people fill containers with water coming from a mountain, in a road at Plan de Manzano slum in Caracas, Venezuela.
Hospitals scrap surgeries, Venezuelans forgo showers as taps run dry
fish, flour and other provisions await trade in Venezuela
Fish for flour? Barter is the new currency in collapsing Venezuela
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the event launching the new Venezuelan cryptocurrency Petro in Caracas.
Economics
Venezuela hopes new cryptocurrency is a ‘silver bullet’ for economic woes
A protester holds a national flag while standing in front of a fire burning at the entrance of a building housing the magistracy of the Supreme Court of Justice, during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, June 12,
Conflict
Photos: A year of protests and crisis in volatile Venezuela
Nicolas Maduro
Economics
Facing default, Venezuela signs debt deal with Russia
A protester holds a national flag as a bank branch, housed in the Supreme Court of Justice, burns during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, June 12, 2017.
Conflict
Venezuela is on the brink of civil war. Here’s how its neighbors could stop it.
One soldier sits in a truck and another stands with riffle in hand in front of a mural of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Conflict
A candidate has been killed as violence erupts in Venezuela vote
At a supermarket in Caracas, the shelves are stocked with vinegar, salt and sardines, and not much else. "There's nothing to eat," says one shopper. "I mean, you're not going to drink vinegar."
Economics
In Venezuela, even an economist can’t afford to fill her shopping cart
Venezuela's opposition leader Leopoldo López, who has been granted house arrest after more than three years in jail, salutes supporters, in Caracas, Venezuela
Justice
Venezuela grants house arrest to Leopoldo López, its most prominent political prisoner
In Venezuela, two volunteers help a protester overcome by tear gas. The volunteers are mostly medical students who provide first aid at the anti-government demonstrations.
Economics
Short of gauze and bandages, Venezuelan medical students patch up anti-government protesters
Venezuela
Conflict
Venezuela’s violent protests have claimed 31 lives so far
Venezuela
Conflict
Venezuela’s Maduro proposes a new constitution. Protesters call it a coup.
Members of the band La Vida Bohème
Music
Escaping violence in Caracas to make music in Mexico City
Venezuela opposition supporters hold a placard that reads "No more dictatorship"
Global Politics
Venezuela’s political crisis just got even worse
Conflict
Going hungry in Venezuela
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab looks on as he arrives for an interview in Buenos Aires on Feb. 13, 2015.
Conflict
‘Missing’ ex-Gitmo inmate has resurfaced in Venezuela
An opposition supporter carrying a Venezuelan flag kneels in front of National Guards during a rally to demand a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, May 18, 2016.
Conflict
These Venezuelans are tired of protesting. Instead, they’re choosing to leave.
A man pays after filling up his car with fuel at a gas station which belongs to PDVSA in Caracas, Venezuela February 19, 2016.
Economics
Venezuelan gas prices soar 6,000 percent, but a tank still costs less than a quarter
Obama_Venezuela
Global Politics
Citing human rights violations, Obama freezes assets of Venezuelan officials
Supporters of Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma gather to protest his arrest by President Nicolas Maduro. The banner reads: "Freedom to Ledezma. No more political prisoners".
Justice
The arrest of Caracas’ mayor stuns and angers Venezuelans
William Rivas drives his own Chevy Malibu as cab. Gas prices are so low in Venezuela that it costs him less than $1 to fill up the tank.
Economics
Venezuela’s 4 cents a gallon gas is set for a major hike
Malala Yousafzai at the UN
Global Scan
Pakistan says it has captured the men who shot Malala in 2012
Tower of David, Caracas
Development
Caracas is finally ending the ‘world’s tallest squat’
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during an interview in Caracas May 23, 2014.
Global Politics
US rejects Venezuela’s accusations of a plot to overthrow its government
Tamar Charney's view from her window in Venezuela
Development & Education
I had to see poverty abroad before I could see it at home
Global Politics
Venezuela’s opposition gets talks with the government — on national TV
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado reacts after inhaling tear gas after she tried to take a seat at the national assembly in Caracas April 1, 2014.
Global Politics
A prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has vowed to challenge her ouster from the National Assembly
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado reacts after inhaling tear gas after she tried to take a seat at the national assembly in Caracas April 1, 2014.
Global Politics
A prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has vowed to challenge her ouster from the National Assembly
Business, Economics and Jobs
Venezuela says its new grocery loyalty card will stop the toilet paper speculators