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The United States government imposes sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, accusing them of voter suppression and human rights abuses.
2024-09-12

The International Court of Justice rules that the case of territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over Guayana Esequiba can proceed. Guyanese president Irfaan Ali welcomes the decision and commits Guyana to solve the dispute peacefully. Venezuela had earlier rejected the ruling, alleging that the case cannot be heard without the involvement of the United Kingdom, Guyana's former colonial power.
2023-04-6

Venezuela approves the emergency use of Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine.
2021-03-1

The United Nations Security Council rejected rival resolutions on Venezuela by the United States and Russia Thursday. Russia and China vetoed the U.S. call for new elections and the unhindered distribution of humanitarian aid, while Moscow's proposal for a political solution and reaffirmation of the government's role in soliciting assistance failed to gain sufficient support.
2019-02-28

Venezuela's National Commission of Telecommunications (Conatel) takes Colombian television channels Caracol Televisión and RCN Televisión off air due to their coverage of the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis.
2017-08-24

Venezuelan opposition lawmaker, Julio Borges, is left bloodied after being hit in the face with a pipe in downtown Caracas. He spoke at a press conference after the attack with blood streaming down from his nose and mouth, and bloody stains on his button-down shirt, accusing the attackers of being supporters of President Nicolás Maduro.
2016-06-9

Guyana's President David Granger accuses Venezuela of massing troops, armored vehicles, and rockets along its disputed border.
2015-09-27

A federal judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico sentences an ex-Los Alamos physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to spy on the US to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon, to five years imprisionment.
2015-01-28

Interim President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro files papers to stand in the presidential election on April 14 with Henrique Capriles Radonski standing as an opposition candidate.
2013-03-11

President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez welcomes President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos to Caracas.
2010-11-2