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Venezuela

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Venezuelan officials hit with fresh sanctions as Maduro begins third term

    US, EU and UK co-ordinate measures to punish president’s administration over his ‘illegitimate’ reinauguration

    Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores wave to supporters in Caracas on Friday, the day of his inauguration
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Venezuela opposition leader released after brief arrest

    María Corina Machado had been detained after leading protests in Caracas against President Maduro’s inauguration

    María Corina Machado rallies supporters in Caracas on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Interview
    Venezuela’s military could desert Maduro after Syrian ally’s fall, opposition leader says

    María Corina Machado argues military chiefs fear meeting same fate as Assad’s generals

    Maria Corina Machado during an interview with the FT
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Maduro’s illegitimate third term in Venezuela

    Washington, Brussels and London should tighten the screws on the Caracas regime

    President Nicolas Maduro gestures during a news conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    US hits Venezuelan security chiefs with sanctions for ‘electoral fraud’

    Measures against senior figures stop short of suspending oil export licences

    Nicolás Maduro
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    News in-depth
    Migration from Venezuela surges after Maduro snatches election from opposition

    Crossings of treacherous Darién Gap linking South and Central America rise before US presidential poll

    A Venezuelan migrant walks along the jungle path through the Darién Gap carrying her daughter in July 2022
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Venezuela cancels passports of dozens of activists and journalists

    Move part of campaign of repression since President Nicolás Maduro claimed re-election win, say rights groups

    Hand holding passports
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    Spain accused of helping Venezuela push opposition leader into exile

    Madrid’s role in departure of Edmundo González heavily criticised after he was pressured inside embassy

    Supporters of Edmundo González take part in a protest outside Spain’s parliament in Madrid earlier this month
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Sovereign debt
    It’s time to end creditor-on-creditor violence in sovereign restructurings

    Cooperation offers Venezuela a way back

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Global InsightMichael Stott
    The west is in a hopeless bind over Maduro

    Venezuela’s autocratic leader has jailed his opponents and left America and Europe facing an awkward dilemma

    Nicolás Maduro speaks during a demonstration in August to defend his claimed victory in the presidential election in Venezuela
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Maduro’s rival in Venezuela presidential poll flees to Spain

    Edmundo González, recognised by US as winner of disputed election, seeks political asylum after government orders his arrest

    Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    US seizes aircraft used by Venezuela’s Maduro

    Officials allege plane was illegally purchased as authoritarian president issues warrant for opposition candidate

    Security officials stand near a private jet with red and blue stripes, which is behind a chain-link fence
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    InterviewMaría Corina Machado
    Venezuelan opposition leader says Maduro’s crackdown is unsustainable

    María Corina Machado calls for a ‘peaceful and orderly transition’ in an interview with the Financial Times

    María Corina Machado
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    FT live news
    News updates from August 22: Canada ends railway shutdown; Nestlé CEO Schneider to step down
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Brazil and Colombia call for new elections in Venezuela

    Latin American leaders try to defuse a crisis sparked by Nicolás Maduro’s contested claim of victory

    A person holds a Venezuela flag reading ‘Venezuela, free and democratic’ during a vigil for individuals detained after the presidential election
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Venezuela’s Maduro is clinging on to power

    Following his disputed re-election, the president has stepped up repression and shown he is determined to stay in office. Yet the international response so far has been muted

    Montage of images of smiling Nicolas Maduro with raise fist against a backdrop of protesters and the colours of the Venezuelan flag
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
    Maduro’s humiliating election

    The Venezuelan leader has lost popular support - can he retain the backing of the army?

  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Nicolás Maduro blocks access to X amid feud with Elon Musk

    Venezuela’s leader and social media platform owner trade insults and exchanges over space lasers in dispute over election

    Montage of Elon Musk and Nicolás Maduro with the X logo behind them
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Venezuela ramps up fear campaign after disputed presidential vote

    Arrests from homes play out live on social media as Nicolás Maduro seeks to quell dissent

    Members of the Bolivarian National Guard riot squad arrest an opponent of Nicolás Maduro at a demonstration in the Chacao neighbourhood of Caracas
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Venezuelan opposition leader emerges from hiding at rally amid crackdown

    The US and several other countries have recognised Maduro challenger Edmundo González as the true winner

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Person in the News
    Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s contested president

    The strongman is reasserting his grip after an election marred by violence and suspected fraud

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Nicolás Maduro
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    US declares opposition candidate winner of Venezuela’s disputed election

    US secretary of state says there is ‘overwhelming evidence’ Edmundo González won the most votes

    Maria Corina Machado raising the hand of Edmundo González
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Venezuela’s Maduro asks government-controlled court to review vote tally

    Ballots will be submitted to a body that is stacked with the president’s allies

    Nicolás Maduro
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Venezuela’s repressive election

    The west must not let Maduro get away with a stolen election

    A man holds out his arms on a balcony that is draped with the Venezuela flag
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Maduro threatens Venezuela opposition leaders amid crackdown on dissent

    Protests triggered by disputed election met with repression

    Opposition leader María Corina Machado and opposition candidate Edmundo González at a demonstration in Caracas on July 30, 2024
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