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News Articles: Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela in January.

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  • Latin America

Venezuela releases 2 Americans after visit from U.S. officials

A high-level delegation traveled to the South American country last weekend to in part discuss the health of detained U.S. citizens.

March 09, 2022
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
The members of C4 Trio, L-R: <em></em>Rodner Padilla, Edward Ramírez, Héctor Molina and Jorge Glem

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  • Music

The cuatro players of C4 Trio are the future of Venezuela's national instrument

From their unlikely start as rival contestants in a music competition, the Venezuelan cuatro players of C4 Trio have become a big concert draw. They're releasing a series of EPs ahead of a new album.

January 22, 2022
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By:
  • Betto Arcos
Two of the children who came for a meal at a soup kitchen in Caracas run by the charity Alimenta la Solidaridad. It serves about 100 people and operates Monday through Friday.

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  • Children's Health

Why the kids of Venezuela aren't getting enough to eat

Many are small for their age — a sign of a growing crisis of malnutrition. Government mismanagement is to blame, say political analysts. And there could be lifelong impacts for these children.

January 11, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro speaks to the press at Miraflores Presidential Palace in in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 15.

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  • World

Maduro's grip on power in Venezuela only gets stronger

Venezuelan opponents and U.S. officials were predicting his demise years ago. But Nicolás Maduro and his Socialist Party remain firmly in power.

December 07, 2021
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By:
  • John Otis
Colombian President Iván Duque unveiled a program last month that will allow undocumented Venezuelan migrants to legally live and work in Colombia for up to 10 years.

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  • Latin America

Colombia's President On Amnesty For Venezuelans: 'We Want To Set An Example'

"We want to demonstrate that although we're not a rich country, we can do something that is humanitarian ... but at the same time is an intelligent and sound migration policy," Iván Duque tells NPR.

March 03, 2021
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By:
  • John Otis
Venezuelan migrants take a lunch break at the gooseberry farm where they work on the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia.

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  • World

'A Huge Opportunity': Venezuelan Migrants Welcome Colombia's New Open-Door Policy

Colombia's president has unveiled a program to let undocumented Venezuelan migrants live and work legally in the country for up to 10 years. Nearly a million Venezuelans in Colombia lack legal status.

February 26, 2021
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By:
  • John Otis
Ana Teresa Castillo, who runs a shelter for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian border town of Villa del Rosario, says she is tending to many more rape victims now than before the pandemic began. She blames the closing of official border posts and gangs blocking their smuggling trails during daylight hours, forcing migrants to cross at night, when they are far more vulnerable.

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  • Latin America

Women Fleeing Venezuela Are Targeted With Sexual Assault As They Cross Into Colombia

Human rights activists have reported a sharp increase in sexual assaults and human trafficking involving Venezuelan women and girls trying to reach Colombia since the border closed amid the pandemic.

January 29, 2021
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By:
  • John Otis
People who migrated from Venezuela to Colombia are deported.

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  • World

Large Venezuelan Migration Sparks Xenophobic Backlash In Colombia

About 2 million Venezuelans have settled in Colombia in recent years amid their country's deep economic crisis. Some of the migrants are shocked by their neighbors' anti-Venezuelan attitudes.

December 29, 2020
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By:
  • John Otis
Diosdado Cabello (left), a candidate in Venezuela's upcoming National Assembly elections, bumps fists with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday. Venezuelans will vote for a new National Assembly on Sunday.

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  • World

Maduro Allies Set To Win Back Venezuela's Congress In Vote Boycotted By Opposition

The president's loyalists are poised to sweep the National Assembly elections Sunday, adding to the litany of woes facing his chief rival, Juan Guaidó.

December 05, 2020
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By:
  • Philip Reeves
Six executives for Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, were convicted and sentenced Thursday to more than eight years for allegations of corruption.

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  • World

6 U.S. Citgo Executives Convicted And Sentenced in Venezuela

First arrested in Venezuela in November 2017, they were convicted Thanksgiving Day on corruption charges and immediately sentenced to more than eight years in prison.

November 27, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Contraband fuel sits on the side of a road in Puerto Santander, Colombia, on May 31, 2019. The Venezuelan government's lack of cash to import gasoline combined with U.S. sanctions targeting the oil sector have led to chronic fuel shortages in Venezuela. That has upended a long-running, lucrative contraband gas trade.

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  • World

Venezuela's Fuel Shortage Upends Longtime Colombian Border Gas Smuggling Trade

Motorists near Colombia's border with Venezuela used to opt for cheaper, smuggled gas from the neighboring country. Now the tables have turned.

September 10, 2020
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By:
  • John Otis
President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro speaks at Miraflores government palace on March 12, in Caracas, Venezuela. Despite international pressure and attempts to remove him, the leader has clung to power.

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  • Latin America

Venezuela's Maduro Holds Firmly To Power — And Squeezes The Opposition

Nicolás Maduro has remained in control despite international pressure and attempts to remove him, while opposition leaders weaken.

July 28, 2020
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By:
  • John Otis
Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez is pictured before donating blood at the presidential palace in La Paz last month amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Latin America

Bolivian President Tests Positive For Coronavirus

The announcement from the country's interim president, Jeanine Áñez, comes just days after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced that he had contracted COVID-19.

July 09, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman

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