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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

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

Venezuela announces that it will sell 5–10% shares in state-owned companies to private investors in order to help fund state enterprises.
2022-05-14

Seven Venezuelan military officers are killed in a helicopter crash.
2019-05-5

The United States pledges US$9 million in aid to Colombia to help support Venezuelan migrants in the country.
2018-08-8

Venezuela's National Electoral Council says the opposition successfully met the one percent of voter signatures in every state requirement for a referendum to recall President Nicolás Maduro. Council head Tibisay Lucena did not name a date for the next phase of the referendum process: collect 20 percent of voters' signatures.
2016-08-1

The National Assembly of Venezuela grants President Nicolás Maduro the power to legislate by decree for nine months.
2015-03-15

Seven suspects are arrested in the deaths of Venezuelan actress and beauty star Mónica Spear and her ex-husband, whose five-year-old daughter witnessed the roadside shooting and was also wounded.
2014-01-9

A twin-engine Beechcraft BE-58 plane crashes into the sea near Cumaná, Venezuela, leaving one person dead and five survivors who are rescued.
2013-02-3

President Hugo Chávez backtracks on plans to develop nuclear power in Venezuela saying he has noted the ongoing crisis in Japan and that the use of nuclear energy is "something extremely risky and dangerous for the whole world".
2011-03-17