Venezuela

The ground shook as the voice of Mexican singer Alejandro Fernandez collided with the cheers of fans at his first Venezuelan concert in over a decade.

Pressure is building on the Biden administration to begin unwinding sanctions on Venezuela after President Nicolas Maduro freed two American prisoners and promised to resume negotiations with opponents

“I still cannot believe he is here,” said María Elena Cárdenas, the wife of Gustavo Cárdenas, who was released and is back home in Texas.

The release came hours after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro signaled an interest in improving relations.

Senior U.S. officials secretly traveled to Venezuela over the weekend in a risky bid to unfreeze hostile relations with Vladimir Putin’s top ally in Latin America, a top oil exporter whose re-entry into U.S. energy markets could mitigate the fallout at the pump from a possible oil embargo on Russia

The Associated Press has learned that a senior U.S. diplomat quietly traveled to Venezuela this week and met with imprisoned Americans in an ongoing effort to secure their release

The regional contests normally don’t attract much attention beyond the country’s borders, but Sunday was different because of the steps taken by President Maduro’s regime and his adversaries leading up to the election.

Drew Binsky started out making $2,000 a month teaching English in South Korea. Now he’s getting paid six-figures to travel around the world.

Venezuela’s government said Saturday it would halt negotiations with the country’s opposition in retaliation for the extradition to the U.S. of a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro wanted on money laundering charges. Jorge Rodríguez, who has been heading the government’s delegation in talks that started in August, said his team wouldn’t travel to Mexico City for the next...

Police in Madrid have arrested in a hideout apartment a former Venezuelan spymaster on U.S. narcotics charges more than a year after he defied a Spanish extradition order and disappeared.

Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas set a new world record in the women’s triple jump final with a result of 15.67 meters

The U.S. government has moved to ease a crippling sanction imposed by the Trump administration against Venezuela by allowing companies to export propane to the troubled South American country, a step that could mitigate a shortage that has pushed people to cook on charcoal or wood grills

Record numbers of Venezuelans are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as overall migration swells

The United States qualified for the Olympic baseball tournament on its second try, beating Venezuela 4-2 behind Todd Frazier’s home run, four hits and two RBIs

Six American oil executives jailed in Venezuela more than three years ago on corruption charges have been granted house arrest in a gesture of goodwill toward the Biden administration as it reviews its policy toward the politically turbulent South American country

The Biden administration is offering temporary legal residency to several hundred thousand Venezuelans who fled their country’s economic collapse and will review the U.S. sanctions aimed at isolating the South American nation

President Donald Trump has shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation from the U.S. The order signed Tuesday night was a final reward for Venezuelan exiles who have been among Trump’s most loyal supporters and who fear losing the same privileged access to the White House during the Biden administration

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the Venezuelan judge and prosecutor behind the conviction on corruption charges of six American oil executives

Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela have been found guilty of corruption charges and immediately sentenced to prison.

The Trump administration stealthily deported an unknown number of Venezuelans through a third country, possibly violating U.S. laws and undermining U.S. warnings about the socialist government’s human rights record