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Venezuela

July 2024

  • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing orange overalls and a white hard hat, holds up his oil-covered hands to the camera.

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

    About half the countries in the region are experiencing a rush in oil exploration that threatens the global drive to achieve net zero. But many argue that they have a right to enrich themselves in the same way the west has
  • A man stands next to a business destroyed by Hurricane Beryl in Clifton, Union Island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Lucanus Ollivierre)

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Hurricane Beryl causes devastation across Caribbean

    Beryl is earliest category 5 Atlantic hurricane in about 100 years of record keeping
  • People line up at polling place in Caracas

    Could Venezuela’s softly-spoken opposition newcomer end 25 years of Chavismo?

    Hopes rise that Edmundo González Urrutia can beat Nicolas Maduro on 28 July and lead the country out of a wretched decade

June 2024

  • Law enforcement officer with gun at dockyard

    US seizes $63m worth of cocaine after dramatic shootout on high seas

  • The Russian missile corvette Dmitrovgrad sails along the Neva River in Russia in 2020. Russian ‘combat vessels’ will visit the Caribbean in the coming months, US officials say

    Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says

May 2024

  • Aerial view of the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela

    Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field

  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    World Press Freedom Day 2024
    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

April 2024

  • In a scene with the sky the same silver gray color as the water, towers appear to sit in the middle.

    US reimposes sanctions on Venezuela as hope for democracy crumbles

    Relief had been granted after president Nicolás Maduro promised to hold free and fair elections this year
  • A middle-aged white man in a black collared shirt smiling, with a group of people outside.

    Venezuela’s ex-oil minister charged with stealing millions from state oil company

    Tareck El Aissami latest in purge of politicians, human rights advocates and critics by government of Nicolás Maduro
  • Oscar Alejandro Pérez

    Rights and freedom
    Venezuela arrests YouTuber for ‘terrorism’ amid pre-election crackdown

    Detention of influencer Oscar Alejandro Pérez at Caracas airport en route to southern national park raises free speech concerns

March 2024

  • Warao girls on their way home from school in Manaus

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home

  • Boris Johnson

    ‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting

  • Older Latina woman with dyed brown-red hair, patterned, dress, red lipstick, speaks into a microphone surrounded by people.

    Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate

  • Corina Yoris (l) with Maria Corina Machado after a press conference in Caracas

    Venezuelan opposition leader names successor after two close aides arrested

  • Venezuela orders arrest of key opposition figure’s campaign manager

  • Boris Johnson did not consult watchdog over paid role with hedge fund

  • Boris Johnson ‘held unofficial talks with president of Venezuela in February’

February 2024

  • Venezuelans remain in northern Mexico in fear of US deportations<br>epa10908195 A man holds a Venezuelan flag as a group of migrants travel on the train known as 'The Beast' in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 07 October 2023 (Issued 08 October 2023). Thousands of Venezuelans are stranded on Mexico's northern border, as they fear the US government direct deportations to Venezuela. United States Department of Homeland Security said on 05 October that the US will resume direct repatriations of Venezuelan nationals who cross the border unlawfully and do not establish a legal basis to remain. EPA/Luis Torres

    The future of work
    Venezuelan migrants boost economies of South American countries, studies find

    Benefits for Latin American host nations could be greater still if access to jobs for migrants were increased, research shows
  • A prisoner plays with his dog and another dog belonging to a fellow prisoner. Tocuyito, Valencia 2022

    The Guardian picture essay
    Mi Perro: Prisoners and their dogs in Latin America – a photo essay

    A project looking at how prisoners in a violent, painful and precarious environment develop deep affective bonds with another species
  • Protesters call for the release of the prominent lawyer Rocío San Miguel

    Rights and freedom
    Repression in Venezuela intensifying ahead of elections, rights groups say

    Fears Maduro government is trying to shut down scrutiny after lawyer is arrested and UN human rights office shut down
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