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Colombia and Venezuela restore diplomatic relations after three years.
2022-08-28

Colombian and Venezuelan intelligence officials confirm the death of Miguel Botache Santillana, alias Gentil Duarte, the top leader of the FARC dissidents.
2022-05-25

The United States lifts some economic sanctions on Venezuela, including allowing the Chevron Corporation to negotiate its license with the Venezuelan PDVSA state-owned oil company and removing the names of some Venezuelan officials from a United States government list of sanctioned individuals.
2022-05-17

Nicolás Maduro's government declares European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa a "persona non grata" and gives her 72 hours to leave the country following new sanctions by the EU against 19 Venezuelan officials.
2021-02-24

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó accepts the resignations of his aides JJ Rendón and Sergio Vergara, over their roles in "Operation Gideon". Rendón and Vergara admitted signing a contract with Jordan Goudreau's Silvercorp USA in October 2019 to help remove Nicolás Maduro from office, and install Guaidó as President. [https:--www.bloomberg.com-news-articles-2020-05-11-guaido-aides-resign-posts-after-botched-invasion-of-venezuela (Bloomberg)]Venezuelan presidential crisis
2020-05-11

According to candidate for Vice President of Argentina for the Together for Change alliance, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, there is a "destabilization plan in Latin America directly linked to Venezuela's and Cuba's governments' activities". Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie also expressed his concerns and said there were "calculated and identical methods of destabilization in the region". He blames Nicolás Maduro's government after Constituent Assembly President Diosdado Cabello says there is a "Bolivarian breeze" in the region.
2019-10-22

Venezuela, facing an economic crisis, raises the price of gasoline for the first time in 20 years.
2016-02-18

A Venezuelan bus plunges into a lake in Aragua state, southwest of the capital Caracas, killing at least eleven people with thirty-six others injured.
2015-03-22

The government of Venezuela expels three United States diplomats after accusing them of "economic sabotage".
2013-10-1

A new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey says Venezuela may hold double the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.
2010-01-23