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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

Chile announces that 115 Venezuelan migrants were repatriated to Venezuela on a humanitarian flight, after being stranded at the border with Peru, raising tensions between Peru and Chile.
2023-05-7

Parliamentary elections are underway in Venezuela amidst multiple ongoing crises. The election is boycotted by the political opposition to President Nicolás Maduro and has been called unfair by international observers.
2020-12-6

Venezuelan state comptroller Elvis Amoroso announces that opposition leader Juan Guaidó is barred from holding public office for 15 years because of irregularities in his financial records. Guaidó, the National Assembly President, says he will continue his campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro.
2019-03-28

Supreme Court Justice Christian Zerpa of Venezuela defects to the United States and denounces the Government of Venezuela for rigging the election.
2019-01-6

A plane crashes near Angel Falls, Venezuela, killing all six of the people onboard.
2018-09-3

Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi regains the role of Secretary of the Democratic Party, after his resignation in February, in an open primary election.
2017-04-30

Voters in the state of New Hampshire go to the polls for the first primary election in this year's presidential cycle.
2016-02-9

The Venezuelan opposition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática holds a primary election, selecting Henrique Capriles as its candidate for the presidential election in early October.
2012-02-12

Venezuelan authorities issue an arrest warrant for the head of Globovisión, the country's only remaining independent television station which criticises President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez.
2010-06-13