Sources: El País Reuters
Venezuelan Chief Prosecutor Tarek William Saab formally requests the extradition of U.S. citizen Jordan Goudreau and two dissident Venezuelans, JJ Rendón and Sergio Vergara, over their involvement in the armed incursion earlier this week, known as "Operation Gideon". 2020-05-8
Miami native Todd Leininger is released from a Venezuelan prison after being detained for five years for allegedly aiding the opposition. 2019-04-26
Seven states in Venezuela are affected as the Orinoco River floods. 2018-08-28
Irish paper production and packaging firm Smurfit Kappa release a statement explaining that one of its production facilities was seized a week earlier on August 21 by the Venezuelan government and its managers were arrested, with the company accused of not setting their prices at government-approved levels and smuggling. It says that the government have taken over operation of the plant. 2018-08-28
South American trade bloc Mercosur will trigger its democratic clause this weekend to suspend Venezuela indefinitely, furthering its past temporary suspension, and not allow the country back until internal political issues have been resolved. 2017-08-3
Mercosur suspends Venezuela from the South American trading bloc for failing to meet membership requirements on trade and human rights. 2016-12-2
The South American trading bloc Mercosur threatens to suspend Venezuela if it does not protect human rights and enact a law guaranteeing the free movement of Mercosur citizens. The bloc sets a deadline of December 1, 2016, for Venezuela to comply with their requirements. 2016-09-14
The National Assembly of Venezuela grants President Nicolás Maduro the power to legislate by decree for nine months. 2015-03-15
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
A Venezuelan state legislator Juan Carlos Figarella dies after being shot in an apparent robbery on Monday. 2012-04-4