US authorities will suspend all passenger and cargo flights from the country to Venezuela, citing unrest in the Latin American country. The move was ordered by the US Department of Transportation on Wednesday, saying unrest appeared to be taking place around airports and threatened the safety of crews.
Read MoreAmnesty International on Tuesday said the Venezuelan government may have committed crimes against humanity and called for it to be taken before “an independent and impartial judicial body.”
Read MoreVenezuelan security forces on Tuesday prevented lawmakers from entering the parliament building, after the Supreme Court placed several of the legislators under investigation on treason charges last week.
Read MoreThe measures were announced Friday by the US Treasury Department as part of a series of steps that also targeted two vessels which transported oil from Venezuela to Cuba.
Read MoreA Colombian filmmaker has been shot dead in a north-eastern town while producing a documentary on the effects of the violence plaguing the region, Defence Minister Guillermo Botero and media reports said on Friday.
Read MoreFormer Brazilian president Michel Temer on Thursday handed himself over to police after a judge ruled that he must go back to prison in connection with a corruption investigation.
Read MoreThe vice president of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly, Edgar Zambrano was arrested by intelligence agents Wednesday night in Caracas. The European Union is calling for his immediate release.
Read MoreA partial transport strike on Wednesday sparked long queues at bus stops in the Venezuelan capital Caracas, just one more inconvenience for the crisis plagued population.
Read MoreAfter having been sent to Venezuela several times to cover special events, including the death of Hugo Chavez and the election of Nicolas Maduro in 2013, I came to occupy the address of the Agence France Presse (AFP) office in Caracas in the first days of September 2015, just when the crisis began to greatly worsen.
Read MoreRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is planning talks on Sunday with his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza on the future of the crisis-stricken Latin American nation. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke about Venezuela on the phone on Friday.
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