Sources: Al Jazeera BBC
The last five members of an Iranian cargo plane with Venezuelan crew arrive in Caracas after four months in Argentine custody, where a court seized the plane on suspicions of terrorism at the request of a US court. 2022-10-21
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is up for re-election, bans the main opposition parties, Justice First, Democratic Action and Popular Will from running in next year's presidential election. 2017-12-10
Venezuelan authorities report 12 people were killed overnight in the capital Caracas, mostly in the El Valle working class neighborhood where 54 people, including newborn babies, were forced to evacuate a maternity hospital. Others have fled to Colombia. This death toll during the three weeks of anti-government protests is 20. 2017-04-21
Venezuelan officials arrest several opposition activists, including Popular Will Party leaders, just days before Thursday's scheduled national protest against the rule of President Nicolás Maduro. 2016-08-30
A prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, kills at least 50 people and injures about 90 people. 2013-01-25
A riot in the Yare I prison in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas kills at least 20 people. 2012-08-20
President Hugo Chávez backtracks on plans to develop nuclear power in Venezuela saying he has noted the ongoing crisis in Japan and that the use of nuclear energy is "something extremely risky and dangerous for the whole world". 2011-03-17
Floods across South America: Panama experiences its heaviest ever rains, with the Panama Canal shut for the first time due to weather. Millions of people are affected across the region, and there are deaths, including in Colombia and Venezuela. 2010-12-9
A former scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and his wife are indicted on charges of trying to provide information about the United States nuclear program to Venezuela. 2010-09-17
Venezuela's government begins a trial ban of the publication of "violent, bloody or grotesque" photographs in newspapers, as a result of controversy over pictures of bloodied corpses riddled with bullets appear on the front page of newspapers. 2010-08-18