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Just days before Thanksgiving last year, a group of longtime Houston residents landed in South America for a meeting about Citgo, the U.S.-based, Venezuela-owned oil company where they worked. But the November 2017 meeting was a ruse.

A senior Venezuelan socialist official claimed in an interview Sunday his country is "fully prepared" for a war with the United States.

A broadcast of a DW documentary on Venezuela was temporarily unavailable in the country at the weekend, sparking criticism online. Venezuela's media supervisory agency dismissed charges of censorship as "fake news."

'Flying artifacts or drones' exploded during televised event, country's communications minister says, in failed attempt on president that left 7 soldiers wounded.

Venezuela has announced it is halting commercial relations with Panamanian officials and firms. The move comes after Panama said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was considered at "high risk" for laundering money.

Cryptos are moving sharply lower in response to news that President Trump has issued an executive order banning the U.S. purchases of the "Petro", the cryptocurrency which was infamously rolled out by the Venezuelan government; the order comes as

Peru condemns the threatened use of force in Venezuela and is negotiating a written response with other nations in the region, Foreign Minister Ricardo Luna said in a statement sent exclusively to Reuters on Saturday.

President Trump rebuffed the offer of a phone call from the president of Venezuela late Friday night, after Mr. Trump warned that he is considering military options to address civil and political unrest in the South American country.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expressing concern over the growing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and not ruling out military action as a response.Trump told reporters Friday that all options remain on the table in response to anti-democra

AIDS-related deaths in Venezuela have nearly doubled in just five years, with a public health crisis severely affecting the government's ability to control the epidemic.