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A riot over food shortages at the overcrowded Los Llanos prison in Guanare, Portuguesa, Venezuela, leaves at least 46 people dead and dozens more injured, including the prison's director, according to the military.
2020-05-1

Amazon is criticized for the trailer and synopses of its new season of "Jack Ryan", which are interpreted to promote a US-led invasion of Venezuela.
2019-09-6

In a speech, U.S. President Donald Trump urges the Venezuelan military to abandon Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro or "lose everything".
2019-02-18

Peru declares a 60-day public health crisis in its northern provinces, with concern of the Venezuelan migrants spreading diseases.
2018-08-28

Ecuador leaves the Bolivarian alliance of nations run in Latin America, citing the behaviour of the Venezuelan government in several areas including attempting to impose Chavism in America, creating major crises, and ineffectual control of migration.
2018-08-23

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says voting in his upcoming election on July 30 is mandatory for all 2.8 million state employees, with employees who do not vote facing ostracisation. Opponents of the government plan to hold their own unofficial referendum on the Maduro government on July 16.
2017-07-7

The Supreme Court of Venezuela bars Luisa Ortega Díaz, the chief prosecutor and outspoken critic of president Nicolás Maduro, from leaving the country and freezes her assets.
2017-06-28

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

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López is convicted and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for allegedly inciting violence at anti-government rallies.
2015-09-10

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