Sources: Reuters
Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González flees Venezuela to seek political asylum in Spain. The Spanish government says that González left Venezuela on a Spanish Air Force plane at his own request. 2024-09-8
The Brazilian Army mobilizes towards the border of Venezuela and Guyana, anticipating a possible Venezuelan military invasion of Guayana Esequiba. 2023-11-29
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
A United States court case gains new evidence and a guilty plea in relation to investigations of corruption and money laundering in Venezuela, adding a group who are suspected to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to the list of suspected accomplices. 2018-08-24
Venezuela says it will withdraw from the Organization of American States after the organization decided to call a meeting without Venezuela. 2017-04-26
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
The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute. 2013-07-22
A French court convicts Venezuela-born terrorist Carlos the Jackal of organising four deadly attacks in the 1980s. 2011-12-15
Venezuela's government begins a trial ban of the publication of "violent, bloody or grotesque" photographs in newspapers, as a result of controversy over pictures of bloodied corpses riddled with bullets appear on the front page of newspapers. 2010-08-18
Colombia makes a formal diplomatic protest to Venezuela over the latter's alleged violation of Colombian airspace by a military helicopter. 2010-01-28