Venezuela

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
St. Paul and St. Andrew is located on West 86th street, in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Migration
New York City is trying to turn houses of worship into shelters
The capital Quito is the city in Ecuador that has received the biggest numbers of Venezuelan migrants. 
LGBTQ
As Ecuador’s political crisis deepens, Venezuelan LGBTQ migrants feel the pain
The view from the Emerald Line commuter rail, which follows the Pinheiros river and ends at Vila Natal, one of the enclaves of Venezuelan migrants in São Paulo.
Migration
‘We have to fight’: Venezuelan women lead migration to Brazil
Venezuelan migrants board a boat in the Colombian city of Necocli that will take them closer to Panama, the next stop on the way to the United States
Migration
New Biden policy leaves thousands of Venezuelan migrants stranded
Yessika Godoy waits in line outside a government office in Bogotá, Colombia, where she's trying to get her ID card restored.
Immigration
Amid immigration crackdown, Colombia revokes national IDs for thousands of Venezuelans without warning
Maria Isabel Parra takes her turn "at bat" during a kickball match in Riohacha, Colombia, March 26, 2021.
Migration
Kickball builds bonds between migrants and locals in this Colombian border city
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López kisses his wife Lilian Tintori with their son and daughter after a news conference in Madrid on Oct. 27, 2020. López who has abandoned the Spanish ambassador's residence in Caracas and left Venezuela after years
Global Politics
Exiled Venezuelan dissident says Sunday’s National Assembly elections are a ‘fraud’
Veronica Gomez, who was traveling with her partner and her son, receives backpacks from a humanitarian worker on Oct 1. The backpacks included energy bars, toiletries and ski masks, for the cold weather.
Migration
Amid pandemic, Venezuelans hit the road again in search of work
A man wearing a face mask carries a mattress at a makeshift camp
COVID-19
Options dwindle for Venezuelan migrants across Latin America during the pandemic
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
A man wears jeans and plaid shirt with back to camera facing mountain range
Conflict
Venezuelan military defectors struggle to get by while Maduro holds onto power
A four-piece punk band is shown playing to a crowd and bathed in red lights.
Music
Rage against the crisis: Venezuela’s punk scene finds a new voice in Bogotá
Firas Yordi, a Venezuelan of Lebanese descent, in front of his new restaurant in Beirut. He returned to his parents' homeland last year amidst Venezuela's financial crisis.
Migration
Venezuelans with Lebanese roots bring Latin flavors to the Beirut food scene
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They fled Venezuela’s crisis by boat — then vanished
A young man with a neck tattoo and baseball cap plays violin on the street.
Migration
‘I get screamed at in the streets’: Colombia’s patience with Venezuelan migrants wears thin
Cubans hold a sign of unity in red lettering on May Day.
Global Politics
Cuban president fires back at Trump on Venezuela and sanctions
Maduro waves in front of a white flag
Global Politics
Former chief of staff: Maduro is ‘focused on consolidating his power’
Cutouts depicting images of oil operations
Economics
Why Venezuela’s oil money could keep undermining its economy and democracy
Carlos Alfredo Vecchio speaks at a podium in front of reporters
Global Politics
A Venezuelan ambassador without an embassy: Carlos Vecchio gets to work
A busy scene at a border town in Cúcuta, Colombia.
Conflict
As Venezuela’s crisis worsens, thousands more flee to neighboring Colombia seeking relief
A glowing billboard on a mobile truck says Free Venezuela.
Global Politics
US sanctions squeezed Venezuela’s Chavismo elites. This time, it’s oil.
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?
A blonde Lilian Tintori, speaks during a meeting with a banner in the background that reads: "Freedom for all the political prisoners in Venezuela." 
Venezuelan activist Lilian Tintori: ‘We don’t want confrontation. We want reconciliation.’
several people hold signs outside the walls of a military outpost
This Venezuelan historian worries further US involvement could bring more violence
A crowd wearing yellow, blue and red of the Venezuelan flag hold signs and protest. One man in the center has his fist raised above his head.
Immigration
Bipartisan effort seeks Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans
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All but ‘nonessential’ US diplomats in Venezuela stay put despite Maduro’s order to leave
Justice holds her scales while someone stands ontop of her in this political cartoon
Venezuelans cartoon their country’s crisis
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
Hundreds of protests stand behind a massive Venezuelan flag
Venezuela’s opposition leader declared himself president. Trump backed it, and Maduro ordered US diplomats out.
President Nicolas Maduro attends a ceremony in a suit and sash
Global Politics
Venezuelans want President Maduro out, but most would oppose foreign military intervention to remove him
Venezuela President Maduro in blue suit holds his hands out and speaks at news conference.
Global Politics
Venezuelans fear ‘Fatherland Card’ may be a new form of social control
a doctor shining a light into a young girl's mouth
Health & Medicine
Venezuelan American doctors ‘come back to our people’ on US Navy hospital ship
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
Chinese President Xi Jinping walks next to Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in front of a row of Chinese troops
Venezuela’s new ‘fatherland’ ID card, created with China’s ZTE, helps create social control
A demonstrator wears a mask at rally in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump sees opportunity in Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis as midterms approach
Two people embrace in a bus station. One of them holds a greeting balloon, candy and a stuffed animal.
Global Politics
Peruvian politician stokes fears of Venezuelan immigrants
fish, flour and other provisions await trade in Venezuela
Fish for flour? Barter is the new currency in collapsing Venezuela
Workers unload produce for sale at a market in Caracas. It's increasingly hazardous work to drive a food delivery truck in Venezuela.
Conflict
Delivering food is now a dangerous job in Venezuela
A view overhead as two women behind a red table check photo IDs of voters.
Global Politics
Venezuela’s Maduro likely to claim victory in a much-criticized election
Venezuelans line up to cross into Colombia at the border in Paraguachón, Colombia, Feb. 16, 2018.
Conflict
‘Migrate or die:’ Venezuelans flood into Colombia despite crackdown
A view shows police vehicles in a street during a shootout between security forces and rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Pérez, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 15, 2018.
Conflict
Rogue ex-cop Oscar Pérez, six others killed by police in Venezuela
The corporate logo of the state oil company PDVSA is seen at a gas station in Caracas,
Economics
Understaffed and overextended: How Venezuela’s oil industry fell apart
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.
Riot security forces clashing with demonstrators rallying against Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 28.
Media
Intimidation, Twitter trolls, and finally this New York Times correspondent was kicked out of Venezuela
Venezuela protests vigil
Global Politics
Venezuela’s opposition plans fresh May Day marches
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets supporters during a meeting at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela
Global Politics
Venezuexit: Now Venezuela says it will pull out of the OAS
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Conflict
Venezuela’s military has turned its food crisis into a ‘racket.’ And it’s profiting from people going hungry.
A worker pumps gas into a vehicle at a gas station, which belongs to Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, in Caracas, on Feb. 12, 2016.
Economics
Venezuela’s 6,000-percent gas price hike has a global origin
Lilian Tintori, wife of Venezuela's jailed opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, addresses the media during an event in support of jailed political opponents in Venezuela in Panama City on April 9, 2015.
Global Politics
Wife of jailed opposition leader in Venezuela wants more help from the US
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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
Mattel's Barbie dolls on sale are pictured inside a shop of a life-size "Barbie Dreamhouse" during a media tour in Berlin, May 15, 2013.
Business
Venezuelans are rushing to the store to buy Barbie dolls after the government imposes a price cut
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
Anti-government protesters shout during a protest against Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas March 3, 2014.
Global Politics
One year after Hugo Chavez, his successor and Venezuela are struggling