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The United States military conducts a precision strike and sinks a Venezuelan boat reportedly used by Tren de Aragua for smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. The Trump administration reports it currently has no plans of attacking the Venezuelan government.
2025-09-2

Eight people are killed after a Beechcraft King Air crashes on Lake Maracaibo, in Zulia, Venezuela.
2024-05-9

The U.S. Treasury Department announces an ease of certain oil, gas, and gold sanctions on Venezuela following the Venezuelan government and opposition's agreement to conduct elections.
2023-10-18

Venezuela launches its second monetary overhaul in the past three years by cutting six zeros from its currency in order to simplify accounting. This move was in response to hyperinflation, which reached an annual record of 1,743%, amid a serious ongoing economic crisis.
2021-10-1

Venezuela enters a "radical quarantine" for a week in order to reduce the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
2021-07-26

Venezuela receives its first shipment of 100,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine.
2021-02-13

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

Venezuelan security forces search for 30 gold miners reportedly killed last week in the state of Bolívar in the country's southeast. Survivor reports state the miners were shot last Friday in a fight for control of a gold deposit by criminals who then hid the bodies. Bolívar Governor Francisco Rangel Gómez denies any such massacre occurred.
2016-03-7