Former Venezuelan presidential candidate and opposition leader Edmundo González fled to Spain in exile Sunday as part of a deal with dubious current President Nicolas Maduro’s administration.

Maduro seems to have learned to live in a permanent simulacrum mode. He says whatever he wants, however he wants. He says and disavows things in any way, and before any audience.

But on Sunday, he joined the swelling ranks of once-prominent government opponents who have fled into exile, leaving his political future uncertain and tightening Nicolás Maduro's grip on power.

A former Venezuelan spymaster pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges — including narco-terrorism -- a week before his ...

Hugo Carvajal, a former top official in Venezuela's authoritarian government, pleaded guilty to narco terrorism, the ...

MADRID, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Spain has denied involvement in talks between Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez and President Nicolas Maduro's government for his flight to Spain, before ...

Criticism of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from a leftist perspective is absolutely necessary and some of it comes from ...

Opposition leaders have argued the detention of politician Juan Pablo Guanipa and others is meant to stifle dissent.

The cryptocurrency exchange El Dorado — often used as a benchmark for Monitor Dólar — also shut down operations in Venezuela ...

Venezuela's former head of military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal - also known as "El Pollo", or The Chicken - has pleaded ...

Hugo Carvajal, known as 'El Pollo', was a key ally of late president Hugo Chavez and Venezuela's top spy, but he spent two ...

Nicolas Maduro's party dominated Venezuelan elections amid an opposition boycott protesting his disputed re-election. ... Gonzalez Urrutia, who went into exile in Spain late last year, ...